Car Fashions

[Beebo]

Notice the size of the windows? The light floods in and you can see out, in all directions. My biggest gripe with modern cars is the lack of visibility from the inside out.

It’s all crumple zones and strengthened pillars now to comply with the safety regulations.
If I was to have a head on collision I would pick a modern car over an old Cavalier.

 

[I like Skol]

It’s all crumple zones and strengthened pillars now to comply with the safety regulations.
If I was to have a head on collision I would pick a modern car over an old Cavalier.

We all know why it is done, but I question the safety improvement argument. Safer for who? The driver certainly, but stuff anyone outside the vehicle that the driver now fails to see from their steel safety cocoon!

 

[Deleted member 26715]

I would pick a modern car over an old Cavalier.

I would pick a smack in the face over an old Cavalier

 

[swee'pea99]

Did you type that with a straight face?

Welllll...the straightest one I have.

 

[Chris S]

Notice the size of the windows? The light floods in and you can see out, in all directions. My biggest gripe with modern cars is the lack of visibility from the inside out.

My aunt has a 2-door Fiesta. The rear windows are so small they can't be used for emergency access. Anybody in the back is sitting in a death trap.

 

[swee'pea99]

My aunt has a 2-door Fiesta. The rear windows are so small they can't be used for emergency access. Anybody in the back is sitting in a death trap.

Brings to mind the joke I once heard while over there on holiday that you could fire a gun down the middle of a New Zealand provincial town high street without hitting anyone...and if you did you'd be doing them a favour.

 

[Globalti]

Notice the size of the windows? The light floods in and you can see out, in all directions. My biggest gripe with modern cars is the lack of visibility from the inside out.

Try a VW Passat; the window area is good and you don't have that cooped-up feeling you get in other modern cars. BMWs are awful because you sit so low on the road, surrounded by black plastic. The fashion for driving with the seat right back can't help drivers see over the dashboard either.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

One of my favourites, nicest looking car I've owned -

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I remember the ex managers pool car we had in the yard at an engineering firm I worked for, lovely motor and great fun to drive.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Notice the size of the windows? The light floods in and you can see out, in all directions. My biggest gripe with modern cars is the lack of visibility from the inside out.

Hurrah! Agree completely.

 

[screenman]

I would hate to do the mileage I do in an old car

 

[gavroche]

I would miss my cruise control , air conditioning, auto locking when I move away from my car and last but not least, the 65 mpg that an old car would never give me.

 

[Smokin Joe]

I would hate to do the mileage I do in an old car

Most of us would, but we're talking about looks rather than performance.

 

[DCBassman]

Perana Capri, with a 302ci V8

I tried to drive one of these on the very smooth concrete of the filling station un Mbabane, Swaziland, 1971. So overpowered that it just sat still spinning its wheels! Lovely noise, though...

 

[screenman]

Most of us would, but we're talking about looks rather than performance.

To be honest I have been in the motor trade too many years to find most cars interesting, I started in the trade a few months after the MK3 was introduced.

 

[Globalti]

Cars are very similar nowadays as different manufacturers all edge slowly towards the optimum design. And I bet there's little quality difference, in the bought-in components at least, between a Bentley and a Ford.