Are cars better or worse looking now than they were 15 years ago?
In your opinion, does the average car made in 2021 look better or worse than the average car made in 2006?
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| They look worse | 15 |
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DADNSCAL
Cars haven’t looked good since the ‘80’s. They have no personality. You can hardly tell one model from another.
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Meatballsandwich
Old cars looked better, but modern cars are far safer and better for the environment, and that is certainly more important.
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darefu
Not sure about the environment thing unless you're just looking at fuel and exhaust.
All new cars have crunch zones built in and even a minor slow speed accident can total a car. Old cars took a major accident to be totaled. Meaning repairable, less cars manufacturered and sold. When totaled they were metal and could be stripped and recycled or rust away except glass but they had less o that. New ones have a lot of plastic and materials that will never naturally dissolve so they must be recycled and the mix can be hard to reuse.
Electric cars aren't any better when you take the batteries in to account. They destroy the area where the material is mined and must be specially transported and recycled.
In the neer future you will have to pay to have things recycled or be fined for not disposing of them properly.
It's all about making money people really have been sold a bill of goods about the environment. How did that; plastic bag/paper bag, plastic bottle/glass bottle or even aluminum to replace tin work out. Sounds good when they market it doesn't always work out the way they say.
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Meatballsandwich
If they aren't safer, then explain why traffic fatalities have shrunk so much over the past 40 years?
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darefu
"Not sure about the environment thing" my first six words !
Do you see anything about safety? I agree about safety that's part of the reason the new cars have built in crunch zones, however, since you brought it up. The crunch zones technology was really developed before air bags, mandatory use of seat belts/shoulder harnesses, and car seats.
Add all that to the old metal cars and I'm not sure if fatalities wouldn't be right where they are now.Comment Hidden ( show )-
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1WeirdGuy
80s american trucks looked awesome. But from what I have heard American car companies make better cars now than they did in the 80s. There was a silent agreement between US manufacturers if they build them to only last about 200k miles they could all sell more cars. But then they started important japanese cars into the USA which were cheaper and lasting over 400k miles (over twice as long as American cars). This hurt the US car manufacturers and forced them to start building better cars again. So today American car companies build good cars again but the older cars dont last as long. You have to replace something major before 200k almost 100% of the time with older US cars
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Anonymous Post Author
There seemed to be a significant drop in quality in American cars after the 1974 oil crisis. At the same time, Japanese cars became far better than they used to be. One of my old teachers once told me that back in the 60s, they used to joke about Japanese cars being crap.
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1WeirdGuy
Yeah, but we are gonna make a comeback. We will be the leaders of automated electrical cars soon.
But yeah Japan seems to be good at building mechanical shit. They had an excellent navy in ww2 and had good planes and great engines. They make great cars and motorcycles. Japan has alot to be proud of.
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donteatstuffoffthesidewalk
still rockin my early 80s k20 it runs great
its spent bettern half its life in my yard
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ellnell
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darefu
Depends, I guess on the country. I agree American cars looked better between 30s and 70s.
European and Asian cars were not good looking during that time frame, with a few expensive exceptions.
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bbrown95
I think they look way worse, specifically the SUVs. I really don't like that rounded look. I also don't like how chunky sedans have gotten and how they have almost no trunks.
I do have a slightly older (2009) SUV that still has the older square shape that I like, though.
Otherwise, I personally loved the look of the '80s cars, but also '70s ones. Some of the '90s ones that retained the boxy '80s look I like as well.
I also miss how car interiors used to come in all sorts of fun colors and looked way classier in my opinion. A family member of mine had an older New Yorker (late '80s/early '90s?) that had the most comfortable interior and had really plush, fancy looking seats.
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megadriver
Nowadays everyone is going for that aggressive styling, even in crappy, little city cars that have less horsepower than the starter in my E-class.
Yet the damn thing has a spoiler, fake vents, stripes, angry LED strips, smoked taillights and other stuff that doesn't belong on an economy car.Not to mention the badge idiocy. Tons of M-badges on a poverty spec 3-series, Audi's 40TDI that looks like it should have a 4 liter engine, but can have anywhere between a 1.6 liter and a 3 liter engine
Mercedes with it's pointless "warm" AMGs like the 43AMG, 45AMG, 53AMG and other nonsense...2000 - 2010 were the best looking modern era cars.
From stuff like the gorgeous E39 and E46 BMWs, the monstrous E63, C55 and SL65 AMGs, through Alfa Romeo, the A8 Audi (one in Transporter 2), Mustang GT, Subaru Impreza, Subaru Legacy.And the more boring city runabouts were more restrained with the styling. VW Golf, Honda Civic, Toyota Corolla... All good little hatchbacks that get the job done and don't stick out like a sore thumb.
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jethro
Go back to the 60's and 70's for great looking cars. After that they became colorful turds.
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ThatOneGuyYouNeverWantToMeet
Cars looked the best in the 30's through 60's, though most weren't as safe as todays cars.
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RoseIsabella
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sillygirl77