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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
As a person that's been driving cars from the the 80's to today I can say with near certainty that todays cars are far superior than those of generations past. Lamenting the the old analog stuff is largely just loss aversion.
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Clearly there have been many positive improvements over the years, but there are plenty of instances of cars that have regressed with the newer models too. Porsche going to 4-cylinder engines with the 718 was not a good thing to anyone but bean counters, nor was the countless of other 6's that were turned into 4's, or 8's into 6s. Cars having to pipe in fake engine sound was a clear regression. Most of us agree that BMW has totally lost the design plot over the last decade, never mind its former "ultimate driving machine" status. Go to a Tacoma forum, and ask owners if they like the current engine compared to the last gen still found in the 4Runner. Mercedes used to build "forever" cars... now they build lease-specials that turn into value-plummeting paperweights after a decade. Even Ferrari moving away from glorious sounding NA engines cost it a bit of its soul (just look at used prices for 458s). Etc. etc.
It doesn't mean that old is great, and new is bad. My point is that just because something is all new, it doesn't mean it will result in a better car. The Z may still be a piece of crap in the end, but I'm not going to knock it because of that (at least until I drive one). For all we know, an all-new version would have been FWD and shared a platform with a crossover.
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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I don't always agree with Chris Harris but he's bang on here.
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Chris is also the guy who drives the one model of BMW (the 2, with a manual) that best embodies the BMW of old, and also just bought himself a Mondial for the #####s and giggles.