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This headline would be much less effective if it told you the truth, that the car never existed: “Unfortunately for us, Oldsmobile never went ahead and produce

• ofalkaed 2y ago
  How does "that you've never seen" not convey that sentiment? Sure it is hyperbole but that hyperbole seems well founded since the only people who have likely seen it are those which followed concept cars of the 80s or stumbled onto an article like this one.
  • hot_gril 2y ago
    I thought it was a very rare car, meaning most people have never seen it.
• ranger_danger 2y ago
  It's a car blog, so I think most of their readers already know there was never any such Olds model as "Incas", so it must be a very rare prototype.
  • jccc 2y ago
    HN is not a car blog. The point of clickbait is that the link will get reposted to all kinds of places online, with a headline that intentionally misrepresents the article to those readers and fools them into clicking. (Original headline was “The 1986 Oldsmobile Incas Had The Wildest Dashboard You’ve Never Seen.”)
• jccc 2y ago
  (Original headline was “The 1986 Oldsmobile Incas Had The Wildest Dashboard You’ve Never Seen.”)
• datavirtue 2y ago
  They produced most of it. Looks like a Corvette.
• kube-system 2y ago
  The car absolutely did exist, just not in great numbers. The article even has photographic proof of its existence. Concept vehicles like this are typically built one-off and showcased at manufacturer auto shows. Some of them later go into mass production, and some of them don't.
  • jccc 2y ago
    That would be an excellent point for a headline that says, “This Never-Sold Concept Car Had The Wildest Dashboard You’ve Never Seen.” Obviously, such a truthful headline would get much fewer clicks. The actual headline intentionally wants us to think they’re going to show us the “Wildest” Knight Rider car that people were driving in the 80s. (Maybe they were rare, maybe you were too young to have seen them, but we have pics! Click here!)
    • kube-system 2y ago
      Nothing about the headline stated or even implied it was a production vehicle. It literally does say, "You’ve Never Seen" it. I immediately presumed it was a concept car from the headline. If you presumed otherwise, that just might be your unfamiliarity with the subject matter.
      • jccc 2y ago
        Of course a clickbait headline does not literally lie. A clickbait headline elides, omits key information strategically, deliberately creating a far juicier story in the minds of readers than is justified by the actual post-click article. Key information like the fact that no one ever bought and drove this car on the road. I don’t think a headline gets immunity from being called clickbait if it successfully dupes only those people insufficiently familiar with its particular subject matter. Clickbait gets under the noses of such people by design.