What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

[Zombie_61]

My wife's Infiniti M45 Sport has those low profile tires to go along with the sport suspension. At 20 mph, you feel ever bump in the road. At 60, you can't feel a thing, it's smooth as glass.

"Sport" suspensions will do that. My Ridgeline is a 3/4-ton truck, so it's suspension is fairly stiff as well and we tend to feel most of the bumps at lower speeds. 60 miles an hour will smooth things out regardless of what you're driving.

 

[dh66]

My wife had a mazda for a while with factory low profiles on 17" rims, and they were bad to deflate if you hit a pothole or bump in the road , of which there are no shortage here in AL. Most of the time they could just be aired back up, but there were enough times that they got shredded, too, that it was a deciding factor in getting rid of the car. Those low profile ones are substantially more expensive than a regular tire.

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[LizzieMaine]

Here in the pothole capital of the western world, you'll see low-profile-tire owners most often at the side of the road waiting patiently for AAA to send someone out to fix their latest blowout. And a disproportionate number of these drivers seem to be the same type of "aggressive driving" jackasses who think it's the height of fun to scream 70 mph down a narrow two-lane country road posted at 40. My inner schadenfreudian always smiles when I see one of them getting their just desserts.

 

[Renault]

"My inner schadenfreudian always smiles when I see one of them getting their just desserts."

Then you would have loved it when I would go out to do speed surveys and I would put my radar unit on stand-by with it's little switch.... I'm in a van, not anything that looks like a patrol car. Sitting there on the edge of Right of Way. Those individuals as you mentioned would race up from behind me. This was back in the height of radar detector use. A flip of the switch and they would freak out! I know that dectector was screaming at em!!!!! The looks are their faces was priceless!!!!!!

I know, I'm disturbed.....

 

[Gregg Axley]

"Sport" suspensions will do that. My Ridgeline is a 3/4-ton truck, so it's suspension is fairly stiff as well and we tend to feel most of the bumps at lower speeds. 60 miles an hour will smooth things out regardless of what you're driving.

Unless it's a Miata.
Then again, 133 miles per hour didn't do much for it either. :eeek:

 

[jamespowers]

Ferrari, Maserati, they're all the same to the guy stealing the hubcaps.

:rofl:

 

[jamespowers]

I concur. You need to compare apples to...uhh...newer apples. So...

The 1940 model might be a little awkward by today's standards, but the classic lines suggest affluence and class. The 2002 model, on the other hand, looks like something a plainclothes police officer would drive, or a hit man would rent if he found himself in Nebraska.

:rofl:

 

[jamespowers]

Unless it's a Miata.
Then again, 133 miles per hour didn't do much for it either. :eeek:

133mph in that little tin can qualified you to be in an insane asylum. :eeek:

 

[jamespowers]

Depends on the commute. Mine is 30 miles each way.

That's a Ferrari, by the way.

Can you go 120mph both ways? lol lol

Which goes to show that they do indeed look the same. lol lol

 

[sheeplady]

"My inner schadenfreudian always smiles when I see one of them getting their just desserts."

Then you would have loved it when I would go out to do speed surveys and I would put my radar unit on stand-by with it's little switch.... I'm in a van, not anything that looks like a patrol car. Sitting there on the edge of Right of Way. Those individuals as you mentioned would race up from behind me. This was back in the height of radar detector use. A flip of the switch and they would freak out! I know that dectector was screaming at em!!!!! The looks are their faces was priceless!!!!!!

I know, I'm disturbed.....

This is absolutely hilarious.

 

[Retro Spectator]

Why didn't Holden make this car? Companies need to make their concept cars real more often.

 

[jamespowers]

Why didn't Holden make this car? Companies need to make their concept cars real more often.

Agreed. It looks light years ahead of anything they have made since.

 

[Horace Debussy Jones]

Yeah. Now yer talkin'. Auto makers need to make more cars like that with a real retro look to them. All they toss us is a lousy bone once in a while, like Chrysler's PT Cruiser. [huh] Was a small step in the right direction, but they failed to follow through. Given the success of that thing, which is really nothing more than a Dodge Neon chassis I think, they should have tried another, like say a modern version of The Airflow. I'm not a Chrysler guy myself, but heck, I'd maybe buy one if it were cool enough. If other auto makers were to try it, I bet they'd sell millions.

 

[jamespowers]

Yeah. Now yer talkin'. Auto makers need to make more cars like that with a real retro look to them. All they toss us is a lousy bone once in a while, like Chrysler's PT Cruiser. [huh] Was a small step in the right direction, but they failed to follow through. Given the success of that thing, which is really nothing more than a Dodge Neon chassis I think, they should have tried another, like say a modern version of The Airflow. I'm not a Chrysler guy myself, but heck, I'd maybe buy one if it were cool enough. If other auto makers were to try it, I bet they'd sell millions.

Well at least Chrysler is willing to try the 300s and Challenger updates. They are the place where you can actually find some minor modicum of innovation in style even if they are reaching backward.

 

[Stearmen]

I was just thinking, we all complain about modern cars, but how many of you that were old enough in the 70s, would have bought a car with over 100,000 miles on it? We were even told to watch out for alleged low mileage cars, because the odometer had probably been around the block once already! Now, I have meant many people that have bought cars with 6 digits on the speedo, and they run great like a Timex. I know there are a couple on here that have ex Cop Crown Vics with a bunch of miles, and love them.

 

[jamespowers]

I was just thinking, we all complain about modern cars, but how many of you that were old enough in the 70s, would have bought a car with over 100,000 miles on it? We were even told to watch out for alleged low mileage cars, because the odometer had probably been around the block once already! Now, I have meant many people that have bought cars with 6 digits on the speedo, and they run great like a Timex. I know there are a couple on here that have ex Cop Crown Vics with a bunch of miles, and love them.

That was in the 70s man. My father bought a brand new 1970 Mercury. The damned thing leaked oil like a sieve. He had to take a day off of work to take it to the dealership and get it fixed right. The dumbasses were looking all over it with mirrors and everything but they still couldn’t see the HUGE leaks running down the side of the block from the heads. Lol lol My father pointed it out, they torqued them down----like they should have done at the factory and it was fine. Things like this made me certainly realize that by the 1970s the wheels had come off the auto industry here. Come to think of it, by the 70s the wheels had come off just about everything..…:doh:

 

[Zombie_61]

...Things like this made me certainly realize that by the 1970s the wheels had come off the auto industry here...

Some time around 1980 the company I worked for did some cement work at the General Motors plant in Van Nuys, California. During a casual conversation with one of that plant's managers he let slip that they'd suddenly had a string of about 30 cars come off of the assembly line that wouldn't start. For two weeks their experts looked at this, that, and the other thing, when one of the middle managers discovered the engines in all of these cars had come in the same shipment. They decided to pull one of the engines and tear it down and, long story short, they found all of the engines has been shipped to them from the factory without piston rings. :eusa_doh:

 

[GHT]

I was just thinking, we all complain about modern cars, but how many of you that were old enough in the 70s, would have bought a car with over 100,000 miles on it? We were even told to watch out for alleged low mileage cars, because the odometer had probably been around the block once already!

European cars of the seventies! Don't go there. I remember an American journalist, who had driven nothing but Jaguars throughout the sixties, mournfully stating that if you want to drive a Jaguar, buy two, because one will always be in the workshop.

 

[jamespowers]

Some time around 1980 the company I worked for did some cement work at the General Motors plant in Van Nuys, California. During a casual conversation with one of that plant's managers he let slip that they'd suddenly had a string of about 30 cars come off of the assembly line that wouldn't start. For two weeks their experts looked at this, that, and the other thing, when one of the middle managers discovered the engines in all of these cars had come in the same shipment. They decided to pull one of the engines and tear it down and, long story short, they found all of the engines has been shipped to them from the factory without piston rings. :eusa_doh:

And things like that just kept happening.....:doh:

 

[jamespowers]

European cars of the seventies! Don't go there. I remember an American journalist, who had driven nothing but Jaguars throughout the sixties, mournfully stating that if you want to drive a Jaguar, buy two, because one will always be in the workshop.

Buy four because two or three will always be in the shop. lol lol My friend bought one back when Jaguar was made by Jaguar. It was hilarious. The trunk would not open because the fuse had blown on the electronic opener. Where was the fuse box for this? In the trunk. :rofl: