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Originally Posted by Sliver
 No soul? Cars have never been better! Have you driven a 60s muscle car, or any older car for that matter, lately? They drive like complete and utter garbage. The soul of a new 5.0 Mustang is 400+ horsepower. Everything is better about a new car compared to an old car. Are you sure you're not romanticizing cars of yesteryear? |
I know they're better in literally every sense of the word, from safety to performance to features etc.
And yes, I'm romanticizing. However. A buddy of mine restores old cars as a hobby. He's currently working on a 1970 lime green Superbee. 4 speed manual. 383 Magnum. And driving in that thing down a highway at 7 at night on a glorious October evening into the sunset, I was wearing a smile the likes of which a modern car has never generated for me.
I think my affection is probably entirely rooted in the actual products being inferior. Of course they are; they're 40, 50 years old by this point. Limitations make things cooler. The original muscle cars were unique to the world at the time they came into existence. What they represented was new and exciting.
There is a cold quality to most new vehicles. An underlying cynicism that's evidenced in either their style or their price point, and it sucks. That Superbee, brand new, would've been $3500. And $3500 in 1970 money does not = whatever they're charging for Hemi Challengers these days.
So yes. I'm romanticizing. Because modern stuff has no soul.