- Szechuan Sauce, My
Chemical Romance, Family Guy, sometimes things get discontinued, and then people realize
how awesome they are, and they get brought back. Cars are no different. Today we're gonna look
at 10 cars that died, and were sent to hell, but then, they came back. We're gonna decide if the newer versions live up to the original,
or if we should send them back to hell from whence they came. I'm James. And this is ... - [Narrator] The D-List. - [James] A big thanks to SkillShare for sponsoring today's videos. SkillShare is an online learning community with thousands of inspiring classes for creative and curious
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premium trial membership. And now, back to the show. (water sprinkling) (bang sound) - [Narrator] Acura NSX. - You look at any kid
from my generation's list of dream cars, and I bet you $400, that the Acura/Honda NSX
is gonna be in there. And for good reason. The NSX was one of the
coolest cars at a time when there were a ton of cool cars. It was so fricking good, that Ayrton Senna drove one in loafers. It was the first mass produced super car with an all aluminum
monocoque (beep) chassis. It had a beautiful, naturally
aspirated three liter V6, and the (beep) cockpit took
cues from an F-16 fighter jet. And, it had (indistinct). (screaming) So it was pretty upsetting when after almost 15 years in production, Honda said they were
going to stop making them, and send the NSX straight to hell. You know, where all cars go when they die. "But James, if the NSX was so good, why did they kill it and send it to hell?" "Sincerely, not sure man, 69." Well, it was simply existing
in a changing landscape of fierce supercars and
not being able to keep up. The fastest available
production version the type R, only made 290 horsepower. Which, at the end of its
run just wasn't enough. But, in 2016 Honda resurrected
the NSX, and toop toop, it doesn't really live up to the original. Originally it was supposed
to have a 10 cylinder engine but that was scrapped
for twin spiny boy V6, plus three additional electric
motors that make close to 600 horsepower when all said and done. And while it's not as bad
as a lot of journalists have made it out to be, I
don't think it's a spiritual successor to the original NSX, which is lightweight and simple. Honda tried to make it a
luxury car, and that's fine. But then they should have
named it something different. Is it an NSX? In my opinion, no. Should it go back to hell? No, it's fine. It can go to purgatory. If you thought that that was gonna be the only three-letter car on
this list, you're dead wrong. This one is American. And Aryton Senna probably never drove one. Who knows? That guy never tells me anything. - [Narrator] Pontiac GTO. - The Pontiac GTO is
arguably one of the first, if not the first muscle cars. I'm not trying to argue
about that right now. That's not what we're here to do. Okay, so the story goes,
golden boy, the chin himself, John DeLorean took at Pontiac Tempest, which was considered a
grandma car back then. And cram Pontiac's biggest
engine under the hood. The 389 cubic inch V8, that's 6.4 liters for my soda heads out there. GTO caught on, and soon
every other car company was trying to stuff a huge engine in their own midsize coops. But, the GTO remained the original hunky muscle car boyfriend. Up until GM decided to
pull the plug in 1974. Most people, will tell
you that it's because Pong Mania had just swept the nation, and everyone forgot about cars. But my theory is, that it was because, a little thing called the gas crisis. You won't find that in
textbooks, so we'll never know. Meanwhile, the GTO stayed in
hell for the next 30 years, breaking big chunks of rock
for literally no reason at all. What are they doing with the rocks? Nobody knows. I imagined it to be a very
frustrating situation. But in 2004, the GTO came back from hell, only this time it had
an Australian accent. "Oi mate, what she say (indistinct)? Just a ReBadge old Menaro." This next gen GTO was powered by LS1, that sent all 350 brumbies
to the rear wheels. And, it had a top speed of
180 miles per hour, not bad. The only thing that kind of sucked, was that it looked like
a mid 2000s Pontiac. Which didn't quite capture the
allure of the original GTO. It was discontinued a
few short years later. And then, Pontiac went
to hell right after that. Personally, I think that
if Pontiac made the new car look more like the old one, they would have had a lot more success And, I'm not a huge fan of the GTO. I'm not gonna send it back to hell, but I don't really want one either. So, it too can stay in purgatory. - [Narrator] Ford Bronco. - The original Ford Bronco a
badass little four by four, that spanned five generations
from 1965 to 1996. But by the late nineties, SUV's were becoming gigantic behemoths. And the little old two-door
Bronco wasn't selling as well as it had been. Plus the whole OJ thing,
might have ruined things a little bit for the
little Prince kicky horse. It went to hell. And it was replaced by the
expedition to better compete with the Yukon in the suburban. And they also made the
escape, which, you know ... Then in 2017, Ford announced
that they were bringing back the Bronco after 20 years in hell. The newest Bronco debuted last year. But, is it any good? Does it retain the spirit
of the original Bronco? Well, most people that
have driven one are saying, "Yeah, yeah, it does. It maintains the spirit
of the original Bronco. You can take the doors off and the roof. It's great." It looks cool as hell. And it comes in a bunch
of different trim levels, and has a GOAT mode, which if
you know anything about me, you know that I've love GOATs. LeBron James, Jay-Z, me,
greatest of all times I think this is one of
the best reboots ever. So the new Bronco is 100% stay on earth. It is not going back to hell - [Narrator] Chevy Blazer. - (indistinct) Blaze. What did you think I was talking about? Ha-ha. Another American manufacturer
trying to cash in on an old marquee is Chevy, with
their answer to the Bronco, everyone's favorite truck named after a sensible dinner jacket, the blazer. It's a compact two-door, four by four. It has the same amount of letters, and its named as the Bronco. And it debuted just a few years after the original Bronco did, in 1969. It was an awesome little compact Forder, some might say better than the Bronco. But, around the turn of the nineties, GM was shifting to a
new full truck platform. And with the shift, the blazer was, (boom) extinguished. It met the same fate as the Bronco. Because everything was
getting bigger back then. (Fire whooshing) And it went to hell. But last year Chevy
brought this road dog back from hell with updated everything. But, instead of being
a rugged four by four like what Ford did with the Bronco, they made it a pretty average sort of unrecognizable crossover. And a lot of people on the
internet got really mad. So normally, I'd have to go ahead and send this thing straight back to hell. But then, I saw this thing
that Lingenfelter made. It makes 450 horsepower,
and it kind of looks like a baby Lamborghini Urus, all for $50,000. So, it can stay. - [Narrator] Volkswagen Scirocco. - Here's a video that someone
I don't know took of me, loving life in one of my favorite cars, my 1981 Volkswagen Scirocco. Somehow this video has
almost 500,000 views. Although this little
dub looks like a Golf, there's almost nothing in it
that is identical to a Golf, apart from the engine,. It was designed by my guy,
designer of the century Giorgetto Giugiaro as a replacement for the Karmann Ghia in 1974. And they actually made a Scirocco GTI, before they made a Golf GTI, okay? So, put some respect on his name. Which, to my best understanding means, a hot dust laden wind from the desert. For two generations, this beautiful little
squishy boy went zero to 60 into our hearts, and then
topped out shortly thereafter. And in the nineties, they
discontinued the Siracco, in favor of the more powerful
Corrado, also a great car. From 1992 on, it sat in
the seventh layer of hell, feeling like it had to poop. But then, every time it went
to poop, no poop came out, it was just farts. But they still had to wipe a
bunch, and they had to rush. But then, the little old
Siracco caught a break, when Volkswagen announced that
they'd be bringing it back in the mid 2000s. And by 2008, the newest
Siracco was rolling off the production lines at
Volkswagen's Portugal Golf plant, just like before it looked like
a beautifully squished Golf, and offered the same engines as said Golf. They even made a Siracco R. Ah, a jewel rag please, Max. Thank you. Unfortunately, all I can
do is drool into this rag until 2033, when it's legal to import one of these in the States,
because we never got them here. So I will not be sending it back to hell, until at least then. If you're wondering who
gave me these powers, don't worry about it. (beep sound) I got it from a store. - [Narrator] Jeep Grand Wagoneer. In the 1960s, Jeep put
a station wagon body on a light truck chassis, and
voila, the Wagoneer was born. The Wagoneer was super successful, and was actually the
longest running domestic produced vehicle on the
same platform, by 1991. My parents had one when I was a kid. It's a great big car. So, why the heck did they stop making it? Well, by the end of its production, it was powered by a 5.9 liter V8, that made a whopping 144 horsepower, which is not a lot of power
in a ginormous Wagon car. And, that big old weak
boy V8 only got 11 miles to the gallon. And by the early nineties, gas mileage was on everybody's mind, including car manufacturers. And after 29 years, the Wagon
here took its last drive down the river sticks and
vanished forever in hell, (fire whooshing) or so we thought. Jeep announced the new
grand Wagoneer last year, with the first version being
available this summer 2021, the horniest summer on record. As SUV's become ever more
gigantic, powerful, and luxurious, Jeep just couldn't help themselves. Just like in the sixties, they
threw their hat in the ring. Only this time, that hat costs $110,000. But this hunker, is a real truck. Is built on the Ram 1500 platform, and boasts 10 inches of ground clearance. It's also got a really
cool four by four modes, thus maintaining the essence of a Jeep. I'd love to know more, but
sadly it's a Jeep thing. And they told me, I just won't understand. - [Narrator] Chevy Nova. - The Chevrolet Nova is
on the Mount Rushmore of classic muscle cars. The Mount Rushmore power baby! The Mount Rushmore power baby! In 1970, you could get the
Novo with a 396 cubic inch V8 that put down almost 400 horsepower. But just like with the GTO, and basically every other car of the era, it became an anemic little twerp, and got all the fun juices
squeezed out of it because of. Pong Mania. So at the end of the seventies, Chevy euthanized what was left
of the poor little creature, and yes, it fell straight into hell. I don't make the rules,
I play within them, all cars go to hell. But then, a rift from
center hell opened up, and before it had time
to close, this emerged. (creepy sound) The 6th gen Chevy Nova,
a.k.a ReBadged 1892 Corolla. I like Corollas, I have
one that doesn't run in the other room. But this thing, this isn't a Corolla. This is sacrilege. An abomination from the devil himself. From 1985, three years after its debuted, the Nova was killed once again. And now, it's right back where it belongs. There are some fates worse than hell. This is one of them. - [Narrator] Ford Thunderbird. - Over 40 years and 11
generations, the Ford Thunderbird underwent a lot of
different transformations. And by the end of its run, it
resembled every other boring American coop on the road. So, in 1997, Ford executed it on the spot. Hands behind its head, fell into a ditch. But around the year 2000,
every US manufacturer started rolling out
retro futuristic models. Now this trend was
started by the new Beetle, and gave us cars like the
Prowler, what's up Yuri? The PT Cruiser, or Max's favorite
car, the Chevrolet Scion. Now considering how boring
a lot of people thought the 10th gen Thunderbird was, the new T-Bird was striking in comparison. It really kind of captured the essence of the fifties Thunderbirds. The only difference was that this time, the car was meant for old people. The suspension was soft, and it didn't have a
manual option until later. The redesigned T-Bird was only
in production for three years before it went back to hell again. Because, it just wasn't successful. And if American culture
has taught me anything, if you're not successful, you go to hell. The Thunderbird was not a great example of the retro futurist reboot trend. But, there's one company that
pulled it off really well. - [Narrator] Dodge Challenger and Charger. - The 1960s and seventies
saw some of the most iconic versions of these cars, with (indistinct) V8s
and amazing paint jobs. The coolest colors available, this side of the Lamborghini machine. So needless to say, the
bar was pretty high, when Dodge decided to
bring these guys back in the mid 2000s. But as we know, they are a huge hit, and continue to sell like crazy. Show me someone who just
enlisted in the military, and I will show you a Dodge
Charger or Challenger. The spirit, of the original
muscle car has been kept alive as Dodge continue to introduce bigger, and more powerful engine. Should these cars go back to hell? (car engine roaring) No. This brings us on to one of
the most anticipated reboots in automotive history - [Narrator] Toyota Supra. - Over four generations, the
super reflected the enthusiasm of an emerging car subcultures that ate up anything and everything JDM. But, as Japan's economy started
tanking in the nineties, and people in the US
stopped buying sports cars, Toyota decided to stop making Supras, after the mark 4. Talk of bringing back the
Supra, started as early as 2007, with speculation that Toyota
would use the 3.5 liter hybrid V6 they developed
for the Toyota FT-HS but nothing ever came of it. Then, in 2010 Toyota filed
a patent for the Supra name, and we all freaked out. Any patent freak knows
that once a patent is filed for a name, a product has to
be developed within three years for them to use that
name as patent free 101. So, this was a good sign for Supra fans. But then we got the FRS. The FRS is cool, but don't get me wrong. It's got 200 horsepower, it's not a Supra. The trademark patent
expired, and for a minute it seemed like the Supra
was gonna be eternally breaking rocks in hell for
literally no reason at all. What are they doing with
these rock crumbles? Do they make them into cement? Is that how cement is really made? I don't know. What I do know, is that in
2018 Toyota finally teased the new A90 Supra. But just like Jesus, when it came back, it had a German accent. That was because the
A90 had been developed jointly with BMW. A lot of people were critical
of it when he came out because it shared a platform with the Z4, and it didn't come with a manual. But now, it has been on
the market for a few years. There's a lot, a lot,
of aftermarket support. And the people who actually drive them, seem to really like them. I would 100% drive a new Supra. And, it is a bummer that
it doesn't have a manual. But if we stopped liking cars that didn't have manual transmissions, pretty soon, there wouldn't be
very many cars left to like. So for those reasons, the
Supra gets to stay out of hell (dramatic sound) for now. Let me know what cars you
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