Best part of old cars is no bazinga bullshit
Oh sorry your 4th view camera stopped working, we cant start your car now wouldn’t be safe
Being on the ass end of the car interactions in the world I’d rather the bazinga mobiles don’t start without all the external gizmos, sensors and cameras because they are absolutely designed with them in mind as necessities and not as options, having sacrificied all sightlines for passenger safety
Car safety has absolutely ruined cars, the regulations need to be relaxed a lot
Sure, but that’s cold comfort when you’re trying to get to work
Strong old man yelling at cloud energy but back in my day we were taught to check our blind spots and back up without cameras
Back when you actually could check blind spots tbf, most cars have A-pillars a foot wide now.
Sure, but that’s cold comfort when you’re trying to get to work
Yeah so is everybody else not in a car that gets endangered by those ass-sightlines bazingamobiles.
Cameras and sensors imo go in the category of genuinely useful safety features. Probably quite a lot of people are alive today because of reversing cameras.
Backup cameras are worth every cent they cost just to prevent running over kids who aren’t tall enough to be seen in the rear view mirror.
Tesla gave a lot of useful safety tech a bad name by deploying a half baked system in a overconfident way, the stuff other manufacturers are putting out is legitimately useful safety tech. It’s expensive for now, but it will get cheaper and save a lot of lives.
Forward collision detection systems slow down cars enough to prevent fatalities, lane warning systems prevent accidents from drivers who fall asleep by shaking the steering wheel and beeping. Adaptive cruise control can prevent pileups because it can quickly react to dense traffic slowing.
if they could EV correctly and make them safe, durable, and intuitively maintained, so many models of vehicle from 1970-1990 would absolutely crush.
i used to own a 1990 GMC Sierra 1500 OBS [old body style] (20 years after it rolled off the line, lmao… fucker had half a million miles, diesel!). i was a farm worker, so i used the shit out of it, but the truck felt huge and capable to the task. like i could pick up a 1-ton pallet no problem and bring it back over the hills to the farm. though some of the hills it was more of a “0-60 in 3 miles” situation.
of course, compared to its modern successor, the 2024 Chevy Silverado, it was 4" shorter by width, 36" shorter by length, and had a 1 foot longer bed. it wasn’t also trying to be a 4 door sedan, but it had a big vinyl bench so it was easy to fit 3 adult dudes in it, or more routinely another dude and a normal dog in the cab.
when i think of the potential, i hate our car and truck market. it’s all just shit. every vehicle is the same attempted jack of all trades, except designed by and for someone who has never worked a trade. so it’s a frankensteined shitpile that sucks at everything, sold entirely on vibes to someone who wants to affect a personality trait. and has a 500% marked up center console with enough computing power and connectivity to launch a satellite. and every vehicle costs like $30k, but really costs like $60k when you factor in 84 month financing and non-negotiable “options”.
Yep, there’s a reason why the modern work truck is a full sized van with the back seats stripped out. And even those are expensive because people are living in them
A regular cab and long bed is something that people want/need. It’s not that there isn’t a market for it… it’s just that in the last 30 years pickups have become desirable for a much, much larger segment of the market: people who don’t actually need something like that - they want 5 seats and only use the bed for buying flowers at the hardware store. Posers, basically. And the way scale works in auto manufacturing they can really only make one (auto makers try to trim down the options/makes/models, it’s why Ford eliminated the majority of their cars in the US a few years back).
Trucks have a larger profit margin for manufacturers (in part from shit emissions regulations in the US favoring larger vehicles) so there’s a lot of push to sell trucks over other styles. There’s more money being made in a 5-seat truck over a 5-seat sedan or SUV.
A 90’s Toyota Hilux is the perfect pickup truck and I’m dying on this hill.
If it’s good enough for the Taliban, it’s good enough for me.
Official car of the Middle East
picked one up for like $4k 4 years ago, can confirm
I’m dying on this hill.
Because you mounted a .50 cal on it and will fight to the end?
That era Ford is easy to maintain, too
You could say it was a-ford-able to maintain
Knock it off
If you think you can general-ly motor-vate me to not make puns you’re chevy-erely mistaken.
Ok, I’m going to need you put your mitsu-feeties into some shoe-baru’s and go take a Strolls Royce right out the door.
I think I found a kia-ndred soul for making dodge-y puns
Outside my apartment there is like a 2019 F-150 sitting next to a Ford Ranger from the 90s. Despite being maybe a third the size of the F-150, the Ranger’s bed is almost twice as large.
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The “i do not understand” thread. It was dead but for some reason it came to life in the past hour.
Think of all the stuff you can haul in that baby and how low the repair costs are. Peak personal goods transportation efficiency
I don’t believe it was the same year but my dad bought the same make and model car my grandpa had when I was five, twice
edit: same color, toomy grandpa had a toyota mr2 lol no trucks in my family
Pretty sure my grandpa’s truck was this same truck in red.
My friend did the “grandpa’s truck” thing like this and it’s a total POS. But they also tend to adopt cripples when it comes to vehicles.
My grandpa’s car when I was 5 was one of those late 90s/early 2000s dodges that have completely disappeared from the road for good reason. I couldn’t find an intrepid if I wanted to.
