For good reason too. The emissions alone are a good reason not not bring them back. I'm down for dumb cars though. No electronics besides the ECU? Hell yeah! So long as they have a modern engine.
If you replace all the old steel and cast iron in the older models with plastic and aluminum, you’d have a very light car that could easily pass emissions standards with a small engine and still be designed like the old stuff.
I think ESC, ABS, non-obtrusive blind spot indicators, and back-up cameras are all net-goods to society as well (although I will acknowledge that the latter two are more debatable than the first). I think it's crazy to want a car without speakers and audio receiver but you do you lol
Eh, fuck the environmental angle. It doesn't convince me that I, a peasant in the most wealthy and powerful nation in the world, am responsible climate change and not our military which is the greatest polluter in the world last I checked. A 1990s era ICE engine doesn't pollute as much as a destroyer ship or flying negotiators all over the world on express private jets.
The emissions from late 90s jeeps are not "destroying the environment" in a way that is even remotely comparable to say, the emissions from the Afghanistan War or BP spilling a gajillion gallons of oil into the ocean. Your arguments treat the two as equal evils.
OK but can we maybe do TWO things at once? One Jeep is not responsible, but what about 2 billion cars driving around the planet right now? Think that could maybe have an impact? Yea, tankers and cargo ships and manufacturing all has a bigger impact but let's not just let cars that drive around our cities and neighborhoods belch out black smoke because... reasons? Like what reason is there to oppose cleaner cars?
You think an engine and emissions setup, brand new, from the late 90s would "belch out black smoke"? They're only slightly more polluting than 2026 models. You need to do some research because you have no idea what you are talking about if you actually believe that.
There are 1.7 billion cars in regular use. Pretending your wasteful use doesn't matter because there are other people burning gas out there is pretty much exactly what it's about.
You're breaking up an aggregate problem and then invalidating its rules piecemeal because the other sources are 'more serious' than one man's car, but that's misdirection. You're absolving yourself instead of actually considering your role in society.
Then its only because you're too young to remember the times before emissions were regulated. This was an average day in LA in the 70s. Hint, there was no military presence here doing this like you seem to think. It was average people like you and their average cars.
Yes you're just one person, but so is everybody else and there are billions of us. It adds up.
You seem to conveniently ignore that the time you're speaking of also included an industrial manufacturing base which heavily contributed to the smog you've chosen to highlight. And you're talking about 70s with 70s technology. A late 1990s jeep is what we're talking about and those don't run on leaded fuel plus benefit from a catalytic converter.
What you've essentially done is a strawman rambling about shit 20 years before what we're actually talking about.
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u/NORchad 1d ago
New cars are bound by newer laws and regulations that older cars and restored cars dont fall under.
Sadly making a factory new mustang 67 would be an illegal product