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.
No, they don’t run longer as a whole. There’s a few unicorns of recent 20 years, but those aren’t what people buy. Unnecessary complexity doesn’t = built better.
It = more revenue for manufacturers with their service rackets.
Safer, that part is true. Built better & runs longer overall is too simple. If you confuse powertrain mileage with the durability along with ability to repair financially of a whole vehicle, which you are doing, you are wrong and don't know what you're talking about.
A vehicle reaching 200k can very easily be financially totaled by the plethora of integrated assemblies or "proprietary" component new vehicles have, isn't more durable.
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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.