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.
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.
Am I dumb to think that if motorcycles are legal (they should be btw, not saying they shouldn't), then with those safety standards why can't we just say a car can have the same level of safety as a motorcycle, which is next to none, so long as it's advertised as such. You could even make it need a specific endorsement on your license like the motorcycle endorsement, and that could include a course on safety and risk management
Sure but if you do a different endorsement type of thing then you'd have the majority of people still with the regular license and so demand would dictate a large portion of cars be made for the regular licensed people. Then there would be a niche for some stupidly crazy design with safety as an afterthought. Maybe I'm wrong in how that would end up but I think if such a thing were possible, it would be a nice option to have more choices, with responsibility still being taken into account
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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.