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VOTE! Time to pick the dirtiest car deserving of a Dyson
Poll time people, and today we have the five finalists for the Autoblog Dirty Car Contest, the winner of which will receive one Dyson DC14 Drive vacuum with car cleaning attachments. As you will see after the jump, all five vehicles are in dire need of a spring cleaning. Some are perhaps beyond help, but we're offering it anyways. There are plenty of pics of each candidate after the jump, so vote for which vehicle you think is the dirtiest of the litter and the owner will be cleaning out his litter box with a Dyson DC14 Drive by the end of the week.
VOTE AFTER THE JUMP
Chris Gallahan
1984 Dodge Shadow
Note: Has had the car towed from his parking lot at work because someone reported it as a vehicle abandoned by a homeless person.
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Emily Grant
Saturn L-Series
Note: The backseat footwell is inhabited by a bag of diapers (dirty?) and an errant binky that's hopefully been retired from active duty.
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Jason Brodoski
1991 Nissan Maxima
Note: Young dad with an old car (160,000 miles) that's being used as a toy bin for his family's recreation equipment.
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Richard Turner
Plymouth Caravelle
Note: OK, how many of you forgot this car was ever made? Us too.
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Thomas Le Brun
Plymouth Breeze
Note: We're fairly certain those are all parking tickets spilling out of Mr. Le Brun's glove box.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Seb 10:13AM (6/13/2006)
The Plymouth Caravelle wins, hands down.
Yikes!
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Graham 10:15AM (6/13/2006)
So three of the finalists are a Dodge and two Plymouths... that must mean something.
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rubbercow 10:26AM (6/13/2006)
Can I get an honorable mention? ;)
http://teq.org/media/tidbits/it.is.a.jeep.thing.html
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RossL 10:32AM (6/13/2006)
This is just plain moronic. Apart from the fact that, IMO, no-one should be rewarded for being a slob, the big problem with each of these cars is clutter and trash, not dirt. I'd like to see a Dyson vacuum try to swallow an old bicycle wheel, a couple of hardcover books and a bag of diapers. Ain't happenin! Hell, that Dyson wouldn't even take care of the binky.
I still maintain that Dyson's marketing department sucks, no pun intended.
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Brian 10:37AM (6/13/2006)
Yippe, let's reward the lazy people.
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Pinkerton 10:38AM (6/13/2006)
Keep the fancy vacuum. Instead, give each contestant a package of fancy garbage bags. Tell them that whatever bags they have left over should be used to discard whatever is left of their human dignity.
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Gene 10:45AM (6/13/2006)
It is going to be a waste of a good Dyson. Obviously these people don't have any use for cleaning equipment.
Gene
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TheOne442 10:57AM (6/13/2006)
I like this contest, granted most of these people will use the Dyson more to hang things on then clean.
Good Job AutoBlog keep it interesting!
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Max 11:20AM (6/13/2006)
And I thought my ride was messy.
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PJ 11:28AM (6/13/2006)
So you click on an article labeled "vote on dirtiest car contest," and then rail on the lack of dignity in those who don't clean their cars? Jeez. Talk about a tough crowd.
Anyway, I'm rooting for the Shadow. As far as I can tell, it's the only one that's legtimately gross inside (stains, rips, sagging upholstery), not just cluttered. The outside seals the deal with those abandoned-car chalk marks.
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A_B 11:30AM (6/13/2006)
The Autoblog folks should sell the vacuum and use the proceeds to pay for counseling for the winner.
This goes way beyond simple laziness into mental illness.
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sr20de 11:44AM (6/13/2006)
The fact that these cars are TRASHED as opposed to dirty notwithstanding- the Oreck compact canister vacuum is a far superior car vacuum and is 1/2 the price. Thumbs down to this contest. Better luck next time.
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roger 11:45AM (6/13/2006)
This is no way to treat a vehicle.
These people are pigs! T
They don't need to be rewarded with a new vacuum. It doesn't look like they would know how to use it.
Get them mental health counseling, first.
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TicalWRX 12:05PM (6/13/2006)
I find some of these hard to believe, especially the one with the garbage on the driver's side. How can you even drive with garbage under your feet? I think some of these people just grabbed junk from their garage and shoved it into their cars.
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Michelle 12:34PM (6/13/2006)
Give it to the owner of the Saturn. Toting children and all their gear around isn't fun nor tidy. She could definitely use it to vacuum up rouge Cheerios, spilled formula and teething cookie remnants.
The rest of the nominees are simply slobs! The first car looks as though the owner was in the process of relocating (back home from college?) and two & three are vehicle seem to be used for storage (hillbillies?). As for the last vehicle, call a mobile shredding company to relieve you of all that paperwork or get a portable file folder.
Or you could just give it to me. Though my car is kept nice & tidy, a Dyson would sure help me to clean up from a myriad of disasters resulting from my lack of coordination.
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Tyre 12:36PM (6/13/2006)
Very nice Mr. Maxima. A Car Seat in the back, and an pack of cigs in the front... Nothing like asthma for little Billy.
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Alex 12:46PM (6/13/2006)
This is just plain pathetic.
Reward slobs with a $400.00 Dollar vacuum.
Come on, where is the sense in that.
They probably have a garage so messed up that they won't even be able to pug it in.
Nevermind that, they won't even find the extension cord.
Autoblog, should have gave it away in contest for everyone to participant in.
Your giving away a vacuum to all the losers how are lazy, don't clean their cars, live/work out of their.
These are the people you see on the hiway shaving with cordless Shavers?
Come on!
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Nick 1:15PM (6/13/2006)
Are those pizza delivery bags in the back seat of that Caravelle? Does this guy deliver pizza? PLEASE tell me some unsuspecting person's dinner is not riding around in that filth. I can only imagine all the bugs/roaches/etc living among the fast food waste.
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EDEDED 1:22PM (6/13/2006)
I wonder if the mound of crap in the passenger seat of the Dodge Shadow doubles as a table to hold up Chris' breakfast/lunch/dinner while driving. I bet it does. It gets my vote for adaptive reuse of garbage.
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Jogia 1:34PM (6/13/2006)
The only vehicle that look legitimately dirty is the Saturn.
The owners of the other vehicles have actually taken garbage and placed it in their vehicles for this contest. I can bet the Caravelle probably doesnt even work.
Once again, the bigger question is why reward filth? These people dont need Dyson's, they need their heads examined. And the ones with car seats, I can only pray for their children.
If you had a contest on the vehicle with the highest miles, you may be able to verify that. This will rewards the biggest bum.
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