Most Iconic Auto Pistol

Most iconic auto

  • Colt 1911

    Votes: 276 70.1%

  • Beretta 92 series

    Votes: 15 3.8%

  • Luger P08

    Votes: 54 13.7%

  • Mauser broom handle

    Votes: 14 3.6%

  • Browning HP

    Votes: 24 6.1%

  • Glock

    Votes: 26 6.6%

  • Walther PPK

    Votes: 11 2.8%
  • Total voters
    394
  • Poll closed .
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MachIVshooter said:
Again, watch out for conflating iconic and ubiquitous. Everybody knows what a Ford Pinto is, too, but it's hardly "iconic".
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Boy have you got it wrong about the Pinto! The Ford Pinto is an icon in the study of business ethics. It is iconic in representing corporate management arrogance, design incompetence, and jeopardizing public safety by adopting a policy based on a cost benefit analysis indicating it was cheaper to pay for the costs of settlements for deaths and injuries than to spend approximately $11.00 to redesign/repair the Pinto to be a safer automobile. If you were an adult in the 1970 you probably remember the videos on TV of minor rear-end collisions causing Pintos to catch fire and explode.
 
Three pages of posts and not a single nomination of a Heckler and Koch product for the title of most iconic auto pistol has apparently unhinged you
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Hardly, but nice try, not taking your bait Norm.
 
Boy have you got it wrong about the Pinto! The Ford Pinto is an icon in the study of business ethics. It is iconic in representing corporate management arrogance, design incompetence, and jeopardizing public safety by adopting a policy based on a cost benefit analysis indicating it was cheaper to pay for the costs of settlements for deaths and injuries than to spend approximately $11.00 to redesign/repair the Pinto to be a safer automobile. If you were an adult in the 1970 you probably remember the videos on TV of minor rear-end collisions causing Pintos to catch fire and explode.
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Hahaha.

Although I would say that might be more a case of infamy.

And no, I wasn't even alive in the 1970s, but who can forget Top Secret?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9GGDOUDLhc
 
HKGuns said:
Hardly, but nice try, not taking your bait Norm.
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The only "bait" in this thread consisted of this chum "The 13 individuals who answered gLoCk should be given a permanent vacation from posting" you posted to lure a response from Glock supporters.:neener:
 
I will go with the Luger; even people who barely know one end of a gun from the other recognize the name. To many English writers there are only two handguns in the world - a Webley revolver (good guys) and a Luger (bad guys).
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Recently seen in the Captain America movie, the Luger is instantly recognizable as the gun of the Nazis.

It can be difficult to tell the difference between a 1911 and a BHP or many other semi-autos, but the Luger P08 is distinctive and unmistakable.
 
It can be difficult to tell the difference between a 1911 and a BHP or many other semi-autos, but the Luger P08 is distinctive and unmistakable.
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:scrutiny:

A 1911 looks nothing like a Hi Power to me. It's like saying a golf club and croquet mallet look alike.......

Also, if we're using distinctness of silhouettes as the criteria for "iconic", there are quite a few that easily rival the Luger. The Mauser C.96, Walther P38, Beretta 951/92, Glock pistols, the CZ-52, etc.
 
"It is iconic in representing corporate management arrogance, design incompetence, and jeopardizing public safety by adopting a policy based on a cost benefit analysis indicating it was cheaper to pay for the costs of settlements for deaths and injuries than to spend approximately $11.00 to redesign/repair the Pinto to be a safer automobile"

Get it right; it was iconic in how said cost-benefit analysis failed to take into account a media feeding frenzy :D. Done right, they'd have been willing to make 14$ worth of changes, and pocketed the remaining three after the fix.

It was Jimmah's fault gas remained so expensive an ugly POS like the Pinto was even marketable in the first place :D

TCB
 
I think some people are voting 1911 because they personally like the gun.

I've never shot a Luger but I have to agree it is distinctive.
 
barnbwt said:
"It is iconic in representing corporate management arrogance, design incompetence, and jeopardizing public safety by adopting a policy based on a cost benefit analysis indicating it was cheaper to pay for the costs of settlements for deaths and injuries than to spend approximately $11.00 to redesign/repair the Pinto to be a safer automobile"

Get it right; it was iconic in how said cost-benefit analysis failed to take into account a media feeding frenzy :D. Done right, they'd have been willing to make 14$ worth of changes, and pocketed the remaining three after the fix.

It was Jimmah's fault gas remained so expensive an ugly POS like the Pinto was even marketable in the first place :D

TCB
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You could not be more wrong. Where did you come up with this nonsense, Faux News? Ford was certainly aware of what organizations like Ralph Nader's organization and The Press had done to Chevrolet and the Corvair. Ford management just arrogantly believed they would not get caught jeopardizing lives for increased profits. Thank God for "media feeding frenzies" that ultimately result in saving lives. Don't you understand that Ford would have been required to absorb the cost of modifying all the Pintos already sold and added to the list price of new production Pintos only $11.00? There would be no pocketing of $3.00 under any circumstances. How the hell is Jimmy Carter responsible for the marketability of a car that was introduced 6 years before he became president?
 
C0untZer0 said:
I think some people are voting 1911 because they personally like the gun.
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I completely agree and furthermore believe this poll wildly inaccurate in what the general public if polled would consider to be the most iconic auto pistol. While I agree the 1911 deserves to be considered the most iconic auto pistol based on its contribution to history and influence on current auto pistols and their usage; I think much of the general public would answer Glock and Luger if polled.
 
Take this poll out of the USA and make it world wide, which to me iconic should do and I think the Luger and 1911 switch places.
 
Nom de Forum said:
I completely agree and furthermore believe this poll wildly inaccurate in what the general public if polled would consider to be the most iconic auto pistol. While I agree the 1911 deserves to be considered the most iconic auto pistol based on its contribution to history and influence on current auto pistols and their usage; I think much of the general public would answer Glock and Luger if polled.
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Glock with the younger generations, for sure. For many, if it's a black pistol, they assume it's a Glock.
 
Not long ago it would have been a tossup between the Luger and Colt Automatic. Nowadays I think that's rapidly changing to Glock.
 
Though I'm still convinced the 1911 most closely fits the bill, a reasonable case can be made for the Glock, and I notice that the vast majority of those arguing aganst them are (predictably) doing it based solely on their emotional,personal dislike for them.
 
Really, how many people are going to have heard of a Beretta 92 if they aren't into guns? Or a BHP? They may know the name Beretta or maybe Browning - but more likely have heard of the "Saturday Night Special"... I'd submit that that type of pisol is pretty iconic, even if one particular model isn't.

The PPK is recognizable to legions of James Bond fans. Perhaps as widely known as the 1911.

Cetainly better known to the general public than the Beretta 92 or a BHP.

For what it's worth, I have owned two Colts, three Rugers, two FEGs (blowback PPK-ish aluminum pistols), two FNs and one Springfield 1911, but do not consider them as iconic as my Glocks.

Cooler? Each and every one - hands down. As much a widely-recognized icon? Not quite as much. Although I have been told the PA-63 looked like "a James Bond gun"...

Bill
 
I voted for the 1911... But I am beginning to think that maybe these other guys are correct in voting for the luger.
The 1911s profile to me is instantly recognizable, and I love it.

But the P08 Luger....anybody and everybody who sees that image, is inevitably drawn to the imagery of WWII nazi Germany.
That, is an icon.
 
I remember the joke going around:
"What do you get when you put Firestone 500 tires on a Ford Pinto?"

The Firecracker 500

Ironically, my brother's 1974 Ford Pinto came with Firestone 500's as OEM tires.
 
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