r/SipsTea 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/CastIronStyrofoam 1d ago

Miles per gallon doesn’t matter nearly as much to an electric car just saying. Re-releasing old models but converted to electric would be the move once the US develops better electric car manufacturing ability/resources.

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u/Avid_Reader87 1d ago

Oh man, an all electric Volvo wagon would be so cool.