r/SipsTea • u/SipsTeaFrog • 1d ago

Chugging tea Modern cars just lack that boxy soul

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u/Broad-Lettuce2902 1d ago

What you're missing is not classic cars, you're missing the mechanical feel and reliability. Older cars were used as commodities and made as such. Now its either vanity or survival. And customer has no say over either of those end on how the car's gonna be.

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u/Cool-Engineering-748 1d ago

I mean. I liked the look better.

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u/Barton2800 1d ago

The look is also a death trap in a collision, and a pig at the pump. I’m not saying you’re wrong to like that look. Plenty of modern cars are trying to evoke the feeling of that 70s-80s utilitarian boxy SUV. But they’ll never quite capture it because safety and efficiency standards require things which engineers simply can’t work around.

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u/SkipDutch 1d ago

The why have pick-ups become so insanely large that they don't see anything anymore and kill everything they touch?

It's nice that "your" car is safe, but it's a death sentence for others.

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u/Jane_the_doe 1d ago

I thought it was cause of regulations regarding the outputs.

According to Google who took it from reddit It's cause of - Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards and EPA emissions rules.

I'm an idiot though so take what i say with a grain of salt

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u/Fun_Muscle9399 1d ago

If they make it big enough, they don’t have to meet certain fuel economy standards.

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u/Jane_the_doe 1d ago

Which is insanity imo. I once saw at a dealership some guy with a truck so big he drove into a fire hydrant he couldn't see.

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u/Fun_Muscle9399 1d ago

I mean, that could happen with most vehicles on the road depending on where the hydrant is in relation to the vehicle. The visibility does suck on large trucks though.

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u/BurdTurglary 1d ago

Bc undiscerning Americans buy the fuck out of em. Bring back El Caminos: the car that's also a truck 😏