10 More Things We Miss Most About Old Cars
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
- Modern cars are festooned with touchscreens, airbags, beeps and bongs. Sure, they're safer than ever, but there are a few features of old cars that we really miss...PART 2!
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"The glorious days when other people's headlights wouldn't drill through your eyes, burn your soul and steal your PIN number" so true..
You ain't kidding
Personal Identification Number Number
The glory days when a one eyed demon (car with one headlight and the working one aimed high) driven by a drunk ,comes out of the winter 02:00 hrs drizzle and sleet, on a single carriagway ,way over the speed limit, driving straddled on the white line and cleaves your door mirror off at a combined speed of plus 120mph.
Very nice and historical.
Old cars are all about simplicity. That simplicity makes you feel more connected to the car.
"Old cars are all about simplicity. That simplicity makes you feel more connected to the car." - Austin Fu, 2019
Simplicity= less operation and repair cost.
I just bought a 2002 Cavalier with 41k miles. Cash. Simple as can be. Will take getting used to, but I think it will be a wise choice for a commuter.
@@Erix7810 Not a chevy fan, but I did buy an 02 like you did, and it had 244k miles on it when I sold it for 500 bucks and still ran great (timing chain was making noise though). All it needed was fluids changed, spark plugs, and new coil packs.
I miss simple, uncluttered dashboards, with easy-to-read gauges.
I still have that 🤗
The Tranbant doesn’t even need more than 1 dial XD
And steering wheels without 999 buttons
I feel you
Perhaps Tesla?
Proper hand brakes. Not finger brakes. That work effectively at the first attempt and dont need the ignition switched on to be operated.
That's not old car stuff. My '19 Polo has a regular hand brake.
@@PatoneLol you lucky man. My '17 kia ceed does have one of those electric "hand" brakes.
@@PatoneLol Around 70% of new cars come with electronic parking brakes, in fact the VW UP and VW Polo are the only cars in the VW range to still come with a handbrake.
Electronic hand brakes can go do one as far as I'm concerned! Only something else to break and cost way too much to repair.
And how you start at difficult hills?
No intros, no prologue, no stupid mottos in the beginning. I really like that
Also, no scammer trying to do some "give away"
But still a thumbnail that is not a part of the video and can be slightly misleading.
Agreed, I hate long winded intros
Who wouldn’t like that
Every one liked that
Thank you for adjusting prices for inflation when you brought up that point.
The USD prices for the Jag and Capri are straight conversions at the current exchange rate, not the advertised prices from back in the day. Ford proudly advertised an $1800 launch price for a stripper Pinto and the Capri would've been upscale of it so $2500 at least. Granted that would've been for a 2.0 with the GXL trim in all but name.
And he didn't even mention how wages evolved too
@@luckyluke5638 Don't forget how much more standard content is in todays cars: A/C, power windows & locks, very good audio systems vs AM radios...
@@Incomudro1963 Power windows are expensive to fix. You could easily upgrade the standard winch system into a quick lever that takes no time to open and close and doesn't need a stupid motor.
I liked it when my car only did stuff i told it to do. Like turning on wipers, lights, the heater etc .
I miss RWD on nearly every car
Hehe Car go slide slide
IKR fuck FWD
It’s not idiot proof.
Not so much for me. That configuration dates back to the 1920's. These days we can build FWD cars that are not affected by most of the FWD drawbacks.
I absolutely despise the fake engine noise speaker crap, i will honestly never buy a car that plays a pretend noise at me instead of just having a nice engine and exhaust system!
Durability
I feel like it will finally be useful when everyone has to drive an electric car when we run out of gas in 55 years. A Tesla should have a noise atleast to let you know your going somewhere
Don't buy a Peugeot 308 GT. To start it's a French car ..
@@whydoihave6neutrals772 And when the noise of the Tesla will be deactivated by terrorists, they will do more deaths because we will not hear them coming on you.
Personne nigga what
I miss the unique shape of old cars they all had there own unique shapes most modern cars all have the same generic shape
thats because they all meet the smae safety standards, i.e headlights at same height, bumpers that are huge and safe if you hit a pedestrian, aerodynamics are all the same.
In other words, Our Dumb-ass Government that wants to be communist and control everything made it illegal for cars to look good and unique.
@@tionstav5799 Backup Cam.? *D I S G U S T I N G*
The absence of planned obsolescence and plastic parts.
Talk to me about plastic... It may be strong as steel, light as a feather and can give you blowjobs while you drive, it's still a putrid atrocious filth when you slap a slab of good steel next to it... Regardless of it's purpose... If you want it light, use titanigold or just regular titanium... Fuck plastic... Compressed turds into shape is what it is...
@@ahritomic5185 It feels like you think carbon fiber is plastic. It isn't. Plastic is plastic. Carbon fiber is an incredible invention
No, I’m talking plastic, as plastic refers to a myriad of chemical compounds that we use nowadays, some are strong, some elastic, some lubricious, bla bla... I wrote the previous comment in reference to those moronic claims that plastics are superior to proper metal... And regarding the carbon fiber, yeah, that is plastic aswell, carbon fiber reinforced epoxy resin to me is plastic, a phenomenal plastic, which I do appreciate since I actually learned how to work with it, but all it’s great pluses aside, hoe is a hoe and carbon fiber, even carbon-kevlar epoxy is still plastic, with bits in it... if you have chunks of corn in yer crap, you still call it crap... The carbon, carbon kevlar or carbon titanium kevlar matrices are still trapped in epoxy which is similar to plastique in every notable way...
Also, its not in my opinion, it’s by definition, as far as I recall, plastic refers by definition to any polymeric material that can be moulded while soft and then through form specific methods is hardened into a final product, as I said, reinforcement and other additions to it don’t make it any less plastic... just to be clear as i wrote in my opinion, not opinion but scientifically recognized definition...
The cars has a minimum planned obsolescence, which is a pretty good thing.
Hate modern infotainment (or screens in general). Love Bluetooth. Love the 1 inch screen giving me speed, don't mind the 3 inch screen in the distance telling me boost, water and engine oil temp, but that's it.
Make car interiors analog again. Nothing dates a car more then infotainments, like they're 5 years older then they actually are.
Buggatti have refused to use digital screens in their because they do do not want their cars to age badly. I've seen cars with 15 year old screens in the centre console and the display is low res grainy and dull and some of the digital graphics on the dashboard are just as bad.
Just let Apple and Google make the displays and make them easy to replace.
tesla did the infotainment screen the best imo. Car manufacturers are too stupid to get it righ tho
Audi tt 2020
Back when those old cars were new you didn't have texting and driving. I mean, yeah, you still had bad drivers but nothing like the people on the roads today.
Ghost Assassin come to Houston Texas holy shit everyone here drives like they do t care about their life they cut you when you're doing 80 on the freeway it's fucking scary to drive here
California too man... it's really sad.
Aren't people in Houston currently driving with boats?
it isn't any better here in the Netherlands tbh. On a daily base I see cyclists cross the road without paying any attention, kids on board or not.
Ghost Assassin You're so correct.
"like a fridge or a microwave" **shows picture of a wash-machine**
I really like starting engine with keys, not button!
Yessss keyless is lazy and not needed
@Trxsh there's still locks on keyless cars you clown
@Trxsh realistically, how many times do you think anyone ends up in that situation? I've never had a car without a key, and never in my entire life had that problem. Also, if your car door is broken, you can go to the passenger side, right? Smh
I almost cried at the smell part. My dad used to have a BMW E21 back in 2006 and I still remember its smell :(((((((( I still think about that car everyday
Mate, *Get 1*
A good one is at least 10000 euros
I miss the BMW E60 from 2006 too. I swear it smelled like a new car to 2014 and than it got destroyed in a Crash.
Old cars were little, compact. Best example: remember the original Mini Cooper, it used to be a little sporty city car, now look at those inflated Mini jeeps/suvs
Dude, couldn't agree more. Look at the new VW Polo, It looks like its the size as Golf 6. I get the appeal of larger cars, but don't inflate small cars. I mean the latest Audi a3 looks the size of Audi A4 B5 with less boot space. Just come on!
Small compact cars are my favorite, hence why I drive a 2001 VW Polo.
This for sure. I walk up to my friends E30 and realize its the same size as most modern 2 seaters, yet on the inside has all the space you need (and plenty of visibility). Easier to park and drive, and there's plenty of advantages from the reduced weight. I think they look better when they aren't so bloated too.
I have a large proper 4 seater coupe of the 90's... parked next to a Corsa its smaller, how is that even possible, and old cars have way more space inside
i drive an e30 coupe and i compared it to my buddy's 1 series coupe, theyre pretty much the same length, the 1 series is a lot wider and you can only seat 2 in the 1 series compared to 4, and maybe 5 if youre really pushing it in my e30, wouldnt say easier to park though, without power steering it can be a hard assignment sometimes
The brightness of the lights- I always thought it was just me that had a problem with it
Xenons are the worst nightmare for any bike rider, it's like staring into a sun even when it's only noon.
@@xGxPhantomZzz Xenons are a nightmare for everyone period they are just dreadful if they go up a slight bump or are facing you whilst going down a hill they leave you dazzled for a good 2 minutes, LEDs are a bit better but even so they are pretty bad whats worse all these high riding SUV's are being fitted with them too and they beam down into your car especially if you ride low. On some of these modern cars you don't even need full beam the dipped headlights are that bright, I dread to think what level of light they emit on full beam.
@@xGxPhantomZzz i was blinded by a jeep for a good 20 seconds once thankfully i was stopped at a light.
@@gravemind6536 I don't know about Xeon bulbs (what I'd give for an ordinary light bulb for my car, can't fins anything but Xeon lights) but the led headlights can fuck off! Especially the ones in Audi cars!! I have been dazzled more times than I car to count by low beam led lights, i swear their white light is actually harming my eyes.
@@xGxPhantomZzz Tots
as a guy who daily drives a stock BMW 2002 (referring to the model, not the year, shhhh) i can say that the wing windows are so great, and the smell of an actual old car is just wonderful too
“Car keys that actually look like car keys instead of car testicles.”
Omg 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Yeah that one got me too.
at least back then you got a key! might of been easy to get into but not as easy as a keyless entry car! with a keyless entry car not only can they get in but take your car in a few seconds with a signal scanner!
@@petlover4077 or a smart phone. People have managed to modify phones to do illegal crap after all.
singing4hope - OMG i needed a break to 😂LOL....👍
easy to work on old engine on old cars
it's ridiculous you dont have more upvotes
RIP MisterBassBoost I know right! One single camshaft for a V8, one carburetor doing the whole job.
I swapped out the spark plugs on my 2012 Hyundai Elantra in 45 minutes.
Yes. Computers etc make many jobs basically impossible to DIY unless you really know what you're doing.
My 2003 Honda can tell me pretty close to what is wrong via OBDII codes. I use a Chinese OBDII scanner from eBay that costs $15. Google then tells me what the code means. It is actually easier to fix than older cars I have owned.
I love the classic steering wheels with no buttons !!
Stefan Winter MOMO is the answer now... What? I like there wheels!
LMAO, I once special ordered a MINI and specified that I wanted a plain old steering wheel. They didn't get the memo exactly: the buttons were still there but they were deactivated! On the other hand, at least nothing will short out if I accidentally spill a drink on the steering wheel as the salesperson told me that the buttons had no wiring behind them.
largol33t1 Lol! 😂😂
Three, metal spokes with either a wood or leather wrapped rim is. No fat spokes with buttons galore, no two or four rubbery/chubby spokes, just a wheel I can grip, spokes and a small center hub....except the small center hub makes it tough to cram an airbag in there. Tradeoffs, oh well.
Exactly
Everything on the road blinds me now 😪
Everything is so unnecessarily bright now.
So true, those goddamn xenons. Its the worst when you are driving on a slight hill and pulling up to a traffic stop and as you go up and a car with xenons is standing across you it just blinds you instantly
@@Jiji-the-cat5425 everything except modern drivers
@@Mr69sideshow They use their ultra bright lights to make up for it
They didn't have screens stuck on the dashboard
Yes, and these are annoying as f... like they made the whole interior and then at once: Oh, right, we still have a screen... erm, OH, LET US PUT IT RIGHT UP HERE. It looks idiotic, not thought through, it destroys a beautiful interior in my opinion.
@@heros2110 no
those are actually cool
You mean they didn't have dashboard stuck on the screens...
@@heros2110 I totally agree with you
Meanwhile manufacturers wonder why Millenials don't care about cars and older people get crazy about the 911R.
You Thana i'm a millenial, I care about cars and I go crazy about the 911 R
You Thana especially now where there’s so many car limitations and laws and traffic rules and what not now a days, it’s hard for a lot of people to not think of their car as just a thing to take them from point A to point B.
Maybe if your generation hadn't screwed up the economy more young people could afford cars and get into them more
Dakota Johnson when exactly was economy screwed up? Just for you to know, i live in Germany, and was in first grade when East Germany collapsed. When the new economy bubble blossomed, i was in school and starting to study. When the financial crisis came, i was just two years into a job. There always has and will be high and low times in economy. I saw three currencies come and go and two states with a completely different economic order. So please spare your comment and do some research before writing on. So please enlighten us why "screwed up" economics have something to do with bad products from the car industry?
If Millenials dont care about cars then what about gen X's, Me for example? I love cars! Well, the more older ones and don't get me wrong I like the newer ones too but its just too much technology over the drivers experience. Luxury cars was more about how it was built back in 90's for example. Now its... Well, how much advanced technology it have. Modren luxary cars lost charm over the years...
Good drivers*
*People who use turn signals
no airbags
I use my turn signals.
Louie Vazquez you are one of the few
bmw is actually an old brand
this rules out 90 percent of BMW drivers :D
Alex: "old cars allow you to concentrate on the road ahead"
Alex: *Shows TVR*
Me: "You'd concentrate on not dying in that mate"
An attentive driver is a better driver. TVR just took it one step further by adding the possibility of a sudden and painful death to the equation.
I drive an e30 BMW, and I have to say that everything about it is better than a new or modern car aside from the constant attention it needs and the worry-inducing strange noises and rattles that it makes.
Also the straight six cold starts are glorious.
Old cars have a soul
#drübergebraten Ja das stimmt👍 #drübergebraten
Old Kias have a soul. Like the Kia Elan.
Teddy Bär
#drübergebraten #JP
horses have soul... a human slave pulling a carriage have soul too, in the future some people will say that 2017 cars have soul, but electrics dont hahahaahhaha
Firemarioflower or kia soul
I really miss the time when BMW and Mercedes actually made decent cars that would last.
If you buy one these days, keeping it after the warranty has expired is risky AF!
Enter Lexus
If you get a diesel e90-e91 BMW 318D or 320D with minimum options (No iDrive) they last pretty damn long, mine has now done 150k miles with nothing but regular service, nothing has ever broken yet! And I've seen a few with over 400k!
If you look hard enough, there are many modern reliable cars, it's just that they are a lot less common, and most of them are very basic.
@@gmodderr 150K? Big deal, thats nothing. I got an 06 Suzuki that has the same reliability and I bought it new and put on 155K and basically just bought 3 batteries and tires.
@@djb6496 Dude I meant for a modern german car, I drive old Volvos, Ladas and the occational american car most of the time so yeah, compared to my 500k mile Volvo 740, a 150k BMW is not much to brag about
@@iaxable even Lexus has gone down a bit in that department, not totally, but noticeable from earlier
I miss how simple an engine was and how you could modify it in your garage
While an ECU can seriously optimize the engine efficiency and performance by itself, it comes at the cost of repair; hence the Right to Repair Movement
I miss the simplicity and solid build of the old classics. Not the commercial junk nowadays.
I don't miss nothing about old cars. Because i have an old car
1992
My car history (going by age) is:
1970 VW 411L: Traded in
1982 BMW 518i E12/8: Stolen
1987 Mazda 323 (1.5 SL, pretty rare model these days and very rare in that condition)
1999 BMW Z3 2.8
That Z3 is about the only 90's car that I'm willing to own, and I'm not willing to go post '00.
*anything
Me too, i drive a Mercedes Benz 190d from 1989🤘
soon ill get my first oldtimer an 1966 mustang :) i cant wait to drive it and do some maintenance :> and take care of it
This is sounding a bit like nostalgia and "old man grumpiness", but to me most cars after 2000 seem very disposable.
AutoAgitator definetly..
how is that? Cars run for hundreds of thousands of miles these days...
Mitchell Steindler I've never heard of a modern car lasting more than 80,000
What do you consider modern though?
louis crespo I've seen C-class taxis my 2013 with over 200000km
I miss styling and size. The cars of the 60s and 70s were beautiful. Interiors were incredibly lavish with button-tufted pillow-topped seats in crushed velour or leather, door panels were thickly and softly padded with full-length armrests and ornate door pulls. Roofs were padded and covered in patterned vinyl. And many cars were decent sized -about 18-19 feet long. And often almost 7 feet wide. Almost all modern cars are dinky little things, and they look like hell.
Great video unfortunately I'm a stroke and cardiac arrest survivor and no longer drive anymore which I miss
Well that sucks...
I also hate how quiet new cars are, not because of the quietness itself but because you have to listen to the annying tire noise. I'd much rather listen to the engine sound.
So true. Old engine sounds are the best.
For example here in Germany there are a lot of Trabant's on our street. These are old two stroke cars with nice sound. Love that.
Or an old Impreza from 1996, a E30, etc.
OriginellerName 12345 Where the fuck do you live? In my town everybody crushes their car after like 2 years
I hate how Cadillac have to make their cars sporty and luxury like you guys been know for making Road boats that no matter what feels like you're laying on a cloud for years and now you're gonna make a sports sedan because the "Germans did it and it worked out for them" yeah and how many of those cars didn't have electric problems or still runs.
Simplicity!!!!!
Model3
Simplicity I have a damn 67 Corvair that's as simple as it gets
Embrace Racing my 89 regal has chrome bumpers.
Embrace Racing ii
My car has no AC, no power steering, no electric windows, no electric/heated mirrors, no height adjustable seat or steering wheel, doesn't even have a rev gauge and the engine temp gauge doesn't work which some would see as an problem but I see it as 1 less thing to go wrong... as it already has
I love the E30 always and the AE86 today
;( i want a ae86 so badly as my first car
@@michaelgonzalez2516me too. but it is so expensive
@@michaelgonzalez2516 I saw one driving down my street last month
Can’t beat old seats, the classic vintage leather in some old cars, Mostly hand made. Beautiful.
mod-ibility too. it's easier to mod old cars than new cars as we would be afraid to break some stupid electronic parts that may stop the whole car from starting
While I agree, I also don't think their's as much of a need to mod modern cars.
Well ... while an old 1.6 honda could have 300 hp , now a big 2.2 engine only produce 100 hp + aren't reliable in 5 years
Yea..... old cars are really fun to mod because old sports cars we're cheap and you can buy like a suitable wing,carbon fibre parts,bodykits and really useful engine upgrades,also the amount of mod-ibility of a car can also describe on what the owner did to make his car to a dream car
Now,Modern sports cars/supercars are just annoyingly expensive(Way more expensive than a house/mansion) And it's either you can't customize it or you're scared to customize it because it has too much electronics,it has a hybrid electric motor,also it's because there's also nothing to mod anymore because most sports cars are already carbon-fibered with a bit of plastic/fiberglass and their engines are already producing lots of HP,the saddest thing of all is that you can't customize it to fit your style or describing yourself.
Some people mod cars not because they want/need to have the fastest car on the block but rather just because they enjoy being able to make their car unique and feeling the satisfaction of making something more capable on the road. If this wasn't true then we wouldn't see people who do performance mods on cars like the Ford Festiva and Volvo 240
A VQ37VHR is a highly computerized engine but, it's very easily mod-ible and it has a sweet intake note and exhaust note.
Turn signals now extinct
Jason Wang no they are optional extra for driver just most decide not to use them xx
some just forget to change the Blinkerfluid
I think Audi and BMW have abolished them
Not in my bmw
Best excuse ever
This is why I'm still driving my Mercedes 190E everyday.
Mercedes 190E is not an old car. It is a modern car.
@@sorindncs 4:17 He mentioned 80s Mercedes, that's not include 190E(1982-1993)?
@@user-kc5sj5pv9k 190E was made between 1982 and 1993. 80's mercedeses are modern cars.
I'm currently restoring my dad's old car, which recently he gave me as my first car. It's an old 1980 Fiat 147 that has been with us since about two years after I was born. It's a lovely little car. Even if I can buy a brand new one, that Fiat is a car that I don't want to let go anytime soon. And it has it wind wings! lol I may have a bias towards old cars, but I just can't find modern cars as exciting as old cars.
rows and rows of cars that look all the same and no one really cares ........
David Pack sad, but true.
Yeah too much Monkee business.
But look at every segment from any era. They all look the same.
@@kolinmartz nope
RtistiqSkubie look at all the 90s SUV’s they all have the same body proportions and boxy look. Look at the economy cars of the 70’s they all look the same. Unless it’s a performance vehicle, or a nameplate that has a long history, there’s really not that much of a deviation from other cars in its segment. It’s always been like that. The only ones we remember are the ones that stood out. Not to mention that manufacturers love to have a common design language across the brand.
Silence is missed, the constant beeping in new cars is annoying. I am always distracted at what the car is beeping at me for.
Sometimes its not bad, just beeping for beeping sake
maxxjett films cant you "break" that system?
Hey! It's that guy that hates Hondas
better than wind sound and engine noise
maxxjett films know about the 86 bell over 100 kmh? (60 mph?)
My car makes 2 sounds.
Turn signal clicks
Door Ajar
I have an 01 Pontiac Bonneville SE btw
My car makes 2 soundS AS WELL:
BRUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMM
and
STUTUTUTUTUTTUTU
The scent of authenticity and craftsmanship... My father restored a 1967 Ford Galaxie 500, the smell of all the hard work and pride put into the car made me feel at home. Nowadays new cars smell like nothing more than a hotel suite....
In my opinion modern cars have too many electronic systems which cannot be disabled. I'm aware of the fact they are there for our safety, but those things are really spoiling driving experience.
I remember when my grandfather used to have an Alfa Romeo 155 and (as a child) just sitting in the passenger seat felt so much better than actually driving some of today cars :'(
find fuse box and turn off everything you want by taking out fuse
Filippo Nevi I
I just can't take out fuses, that would be terrible in case of accident
Filippo Nevi woooaah dat Alfa 155 is my father's favourite car 😭😭
That car was epic :') Show your father the 155 DTM, he will be amazed by it ;D
When all cars are electric I will miss the sound of the cars
i kinda like the spaceship charging up noise, it sounds cool, but i do like the ice noise too, just wish they weren't so polluting
Don't worry.. we will get fake engine sounds through the speakers *sigh*
Spunky Bob *COUGH* BMW *COUGH*
I'll miss being able to work on them myself.
Most road noise is the sound of tires so the noise will actually never go away
The point about old cars having candles for headlights is quite funny cause here in serbia the bulbs in headlights are litterally called candles
(Svećice)
This video should be shares in every designing departments of every car manufacture!
I miss the damn *manual handbrake!!!!*
Armando Forno that's not exactly gone my dude. I drive a 2017 impreza and despite all the tech, it still has a manual handbrake
Not gone yet, but definitely on the way out. It seems like for every one of us who prefers a good old handbrake, there are a dozen car buyers who only care about having more cupholders, storage or USB ports in the center console, so out goes the handbrake to make more room. :(
Hate those stupid buttons! In order to acheive manhood, you *must* pull a proper handbrake!
Even the newer cars in my country have manual handbrakes though.
Yes, not all new cars have electric handbrakes, but this trend is sadly growing 😑
I miss big N/A engines.
That's were the natural sound came from. Displacement. And we all know, there's no replacement for displacement.
(X) Doubt
Henry M How would forced induction be the replacement for displacement when you can turbocharge a massive engine and get ungodly horsepower?
Capri Driver i have a big v8 4.0 N/A aspirated i love it
Boost is good, displacement is better, having both is the best.
I very happy to hear all this, because I am a car enthusiast.Really miss them...
One really small thing I loved were the old way to put down windows with the crank type thing
Free space in the engine bay. Enough space for a turbo, or enough space to pull out your alternator.
Have you ever checked out the engine bay of a modern car? You have to disassemble the entire damn car to get to your battery!
ast5515 in my BMW you have to lift up the trunk floor to get in the battery
Thats no accident. Its so the dealers can rape your wallet for even minor repair work.
ΑΡΗΣ ΚΟΡΝΑΡΑΚΗΣ There are some exceptions. And perhaps the battery wasn't the best example. But how long would it take YOU to get the alternator or the starter motor off? 2 days?
Are you referring to a hybrid or an electric car?
No ,he's referring to modern petrol cars , citroen , kia , audi etc ...
I miss large engine displacements and N/A engines...
"wind wings" lol wtf.
They're called quarter lights.
toonmag50 And I thought they were there for the cigarette enthusiast. Right by your hand, pulls the smoke right out.
I've always called them vent windows. And they were mostly phased out of cars in the early 80s. But the Ford F-series trucks and E-Series vans had them up till 1996 (1997 for the F-250 and F-350) and 1991 respectively.
@@kaneshuppert636 amusingly partly correct for the time period they were used.
I've always known them as smoker windows or vent windows
I wish there was a company out there that made cars like old ones. Simple, don't have sensors everywhere, open engine bay for easy maintenance, don't have creature comforts that break down all the time, made of real metal that's harder to dent and crack, analogue dashboards, engineered for durability and longevity, etc
HID and LED lighting on vehicles needs serious regulation, they're blindingly bright, which is a hazard ironically. And people who equip them for vanity need their asses kicked so hard.
Thats a idiote complaint!No,the older LED headlights couldnt properly fit the reflector headlight.So the glare got everywhere.Nowadays there are far better LED headlights but they are still expensive.So they buy the crap ones on Ebay.
There is nothing wrong with LED HID lights, Nothing what so ever if its orignal from factory. The problem is the people that installs kits thats not made for that car at all, halogen projectors/reflectors for example is not made for LED lights, theyre made just for halogen. Problem is also Drivers that buys cheapest option car with manual light height adjustment, they just have to point them way to high, then we also got the fuckers that dont put their light stalk into auto... So DRL`s r on at night and tailights r off... Whole point with DRL`s is to blend drivers during daylight, low beams does not workt he same way (to u that think low beams work the same way as DRL`s r dumb)
As someone who gets migraines, yes. These lights make me feel like someone is stabbing my eye sockets. I hate them.
Computer Addic wrong. To bright is just to bright. Stupid excuses dont change that
The Gaming Norwegian ur dumb. Open your eyes and pay attention.
Lifespan!!! I am 30 years old got my deivers license in 2003. My first car a. 1985 vw jetta i bought off of my father. I still have it. Since then i have had a few other vehicles. The vw is not my only vehicles but none of them will die after my jetta. They will all die before it does. At the moment the odometer is a hair over 800,000 miles ( i live in the usa im not quite sure what that would be converted into kilometers for my neighbors over the Atlantic) any way over 800,000 miles over the years just basic maintenance repairs and still running strong at this rate i do see it easily living to see 1 million miles. I highly doubt with all of this electronic bullcrap in todays vehicles around the globe any of them will last that long.
800k? Jesus
nate Hurchalla it is over a million km...
Wow that's almost 1.3m km!!
wanted to do the same (keeping it until i die) with my bmw e36 (my first car)but after i had it for 5 years i crashed it and now the frame is bend and its rotting since half a year on a property thats going to be sold soon,so i have to get rid of it :(
You don't have to go across the Atlantic to find people using the metric system...Canada uses it.
For me it's the engine noise, you didn't need a sports exhaust to make it sound good. Also you can feel the road as you drive, I can't stand the way modern cars feel so isolated. No modern car is half as fun as my 1972 triumph spitfire.
Uuf, my 2nd favorite cabrio(my favorite is a morgan plus 6)
The type r is pretty fun to drive
@@Lightning-gg5iu Won't as fun, drive one and youl see.
jh565bb I have driven one and they’re pretty fun for a modern car.
@@Lightning-gg5iu I meant a classic car lol, though I'm sure the type r is fun, it looks like it would be.
Safety on newer cars is very much improved, but there is something about old cars that just draws me in.
I'm currently learning to drive (ish) and stepping into the old '99 Ibiza is so different from any new car. You get 3 pedals, a stick, and two gauges. Nothing is done for you except ABS. It's much more raw and immersive than having the car do everything for you. Add low maintenance costs and a handbrake that isn't limited to pushing a button.
This and the Honda Concerto that my mom had are really, really enjoyable to drive.
I missed pop-up head light
No!They spoiled the look of the car and they spoiled the airodynamics.
Computer Addic fuck you popup headlights where the best
I miss my 1992 Toyota Supra
Veikka Mäenpää we all do ;-;
I miss glass headlights.
1:24 On the contrary, I like how on older cars, you heard the indicator very clearly.
On a newer car I drive today, the indicator sound is so quite, it's easy to forget it's on.
I also like that the engine start sound was pronounced, unlike most cars today
No one uses their indicators these days :(
I can't say i miss some of those since i'm not even a driver for a moments, and wasn't alive when most of the cars shown in the video, but what i can say straight:
What i absolutely hate and despice is the screens in car's dashboards. Cars these days will outdate in a few years, unlike any other car 20-30+ years before.
My family have a collection of historic cars and military vehicles. It's so refreshing and a throwback to drive a 50 year old car that doesn't insult your intelligence every 5 seconds when you are driving - It leaves you alone to get on with it lol. The smell of old leather and woodwork was wonderful! No moulded plastic in sight. Times were simpler. Having said that, for example, some older cars didn't have power steering, and the fuel efficiency compared to modern cars were dire. You could see your fuel gauge heading to zero very quickly indeed at 20-25mpg, among other things! Great video, made me chuckle, and it's all so true :)
I'll drop in a few here.
-Diversity, especially of engines. It used to be, there were a great variety of engines for a great variety of purposes. And within each type of engine, there were infinite variations. GMC's giant V6 engines (they used 351ci/5.8L and possibly larger in light trucks, 478ci/7.8L in medium trucks), the 215ci Buick/Oldsmobile/Pontiac (later Rover) V8, and the V12 BMWs of the 1980s and 1990s are infinitely more interesting to me than any number of 1.6L and 2.0L turbo fours.
-Visually-appealing body styles like coupes and convertibles. And station wagons. Ugly chopped-off hatchbacks serve a practical purpose in Europe and Japan where space is at a premium, but to condemn the wide-open expanses of the US, Canada, and Australia to the same automotive fate is just cruel.
-Cable-actuated throttle.
-Engines you can see. I was at a car show recently where someone had a (most likely stock) Mercedes-Benz... CL600, I think it was? They had the hood up, but I don't know why they bothered; I just saw a vast expanse of stupid plastic. Apparently, there was a twin-turbo V12 hiding in there somewhere, but I never saw it.
-Thin, simple steering wheels. First came the airbags to make the centers fat, then came the buttons, then the rims bulked up. Annoyingly, U.S. regulations forbid replacing an airbag-equipped steering wheel with an airbag-less racing wheel, not that everyone cares.
-Unique car culture in different places. When I see someone who isn't Japanese call mountain pass racing "touge", it makes me want to scream. Unique car cultures do still survive but if you read too many car-culture blogs it starts to look like everywhere is getting overwritten by some kind of heavily Japan-based new world order of car culture. Similarly, seeing a stanced S15 referred to as "USDM-inspired" just hurts.
Keep up the great work guys! I'm enjoying every single video you make :)
The glory days. I agree the old cars are best to rely on.
old cars are real cars. not like modern car feels like computers on wheels
Fuck off.. Its just a car!
solid snake I agree, today we are over-assisted in our driving and it becomes ridiculous
@@LeslieB73 u fuck off mate.
P. Enis that is true, however I don’t mind having Bluetooth at least in a car tbh
Night_crawler NC Of course, there are some real improvements like the Bluetooth and the security for example, but there are also a lot of other stuff that is more redundant and just complicate the whole thing.
i miss the visibility, i can't see anything on the modern back windows
We want cars back.. I am afraid of the future
Most of all rotaries
ivcars003 me too
ivcars003 I just want to keep my petrol cars
Yeah in the future it looks like that we will be chauffeured by a robot
ivcars003 Thats what I want....but we cant really escape the future. There will be no gasoline in the future.
This is probably the best video about cars I have seen on youtube
my 88 W124 is about to have her 30th birthday this August, and still going strong!
Sealed-beam headlights. Universal, cheap and easy to replace. $10 was the going rate in the '90s - not for a bulb, a whole headlight, no toenail lenses ever, and you didn't need to dismantle the whole front of the car to swap it!
I just unscrew mine and change the bulb, simplicity
nlpnt and the light output was HORRENDOUS
jsquared1013 Okay, but imagine if they had kept a standard size for all new cars. With modern lighting they would be bright but also produced in such large numbers that the price would be kept down.
They were with glass,and that didnt haze..
Chevrolet PU was the easiest,with your fingers pull two pins the whole assembly would come out,then you twist the bulb free and install new one no tools,2008 they changed it not at all easy backwards they went
Totally agree with the true exhaust note. Why would I need fake noise in my speakers? What were they thinking? Forget the glowing neon, that's the most "ricest" thing ever.
vdochev I was bothered when I heard Harley tinkered with their exhausts to produce a distinctive sound, as I think an exhaust's primary job should be to get the gas out as efficient as possible. Imagine my horror when I realized that manufacturers were actually using the radio to create exhaust noise. Surely people have gone mad.
Now, I've finally heard someone else (aside from my friend Marco) say "ricer" or "ricest"
@4:53, is that Jeremy Clarkson’s licence plate, with “M3 OAF”???
Hi. Great vid. Had to edit since my feed must have skipped and I missed the inflation bit. But I do miss a lot of the older cars.
Old cars use to come with a user's manual that practically showed you how to fix your car. Now they just explain the purpose of all the buttons inside and give you numbers or suggestions about who to call in case you get a flat tire.
Ugh, so true. What's worse is they seem to be removing jacks and spare tires from cars more often. I was VERY relieved when I peeked under my car's trunk floor cover and saw a jack and tire.
teslas radar guided system is so annoying, just the other day i tried to run over a pair of cyclists but it wouldnt let me
boogjerom lmao
boogjerom LOL
why run over a pair of cyclist, run over a pair of policemen would be fun. just run them over, by the way
Worth 45 points if you run over cyclists, 60 points if you run over police officers, 40 points every women pedestrians you hit, 10 for every male peds, 70 points if you run over kids under 12, 100 points if you hit elderly pedestrians over 75 years old. Bonus 300 points for every hipster millennials you hit, and 500 points if you hit a pop star . The hell with your radar guided system, the hell with peds and other people, just ignore them and run them over.
Erwin Schrödinger what? It's a good car... what's your problem?
old cars are the best cars
Well done!
The bit about modern headlights raping your eyes is spot on. Nissan Quashqis are particularly bad imo.
विष्णु का दायां हाथ Who cares, in my fucking opinion modern are better and safer.
Nigel Mansell What six lights are you fucking talking about. Remember the 1960s Chevrolet Impala had six taillights:
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Thorbjørn Madsen at least they didnt blind you. I always get blinded by fucking Toyota LED taillights. And modern cars may be safe, untill one of the electronic systems die.
Nine's And AK's Gaming Channel Whatever you say petrol-head! Also you don't even care if your mother died in a car crash, because i bet that she drive an old piece of shit.
I do like old cars, but i wouldn't drive in one. I rather drive a modern front wheel drive car which is a Skoda Octavia.
+Thorbjørn Madsen Try to stay on topic. Modern cars are obviously safer, no one is trying to argue that. We're talking specifically about headlights which on modern cars might be better for the driver but everyone else coming towards them gets dazzled. It might only be to a minor degree but it's still less safe than the old incandescent headlights.
Modern cars usally have smaller windows than old cars so they are more difficult to see out of. Today they make fragile cars you can´t work on yourself due to electronics, they don´t last and cost a fortune to get fixed. In the past they made solid cars that lasted a long time and was easy to work on yourself.
And nothing removes your attention from the traffic more than having a computer screen in your car which you have to look at to operate. The old style knobs and levers you could operate without looking at them so you kept focus on the traffic. I stay with old cars for as long as possible.
That is exactly why I ignore the car salesperson bragging about all the latest "hands-free" stuff and look for the 10-12 cheapest cars in the lot. Those tend to have more switches and buttons so I don't have to pull over, turn on my hazard lights and spend 30 seconds searching for one measly function hidden in the touch screen menu.
Absolutely. Was shopping for a new car for a few years and was appalled by the much lower visibility due to small windows and huge pillars. Of course a reversing camera is standard, you can't see out of the rear window at all! Blindspots the size of your ex wife's arguments.
The bumper on my old car has taken knocks that would have left craters in a modern car. The paint is thinner, door panels are thinner, glass is thinner unless you buy something expensive. And turning circle! Don't get me started on how a modern hatchback has a much larger circle than a thirty year old midsize sedan.
The poor visibility of a lot of new cars is easily the #1 thing I have against them. I can deal with electronics, but the bad visibility is just annoying. It is why they need all of these radar assistance systems and backup cameras in cars these days, with the high waistlines and small windows you hardly have any idea of what is around you without them.
My '99 3000GT has been towed about 5 times due to electric problems. My '79 Camaro treated me right in every way whenever I got new parts. It was a fantastic performer and was nimble, also.
I have 2 Nissans, 1 is a 2005 Altima 3.5, is nice, has a classic 5 speed automatic gearbox; the 2nd is a 2012 Maxima, I love it! power is enough (at least for me 290 hp/261 lb-ft), easy, reliable cheap ('till now), good ilumination by nigth (specially in the Max). The stereo is easy and comfortable because every knob is not too sensitive by touch, never distract my sigth from the road, good braking, safe and elegant.
The thing with wind wings was that you usually don't want to open them all the way, I was picky and they worked fine.
I can only applause a guy who shows so many TVRs in a short film. Well done, good Sir. I have older cars (a Tif as well) and I do not text in them because I have to keep them on the road. Because I am driving; I am not driven by a modern car.
1:04 oooh that ae86!!!
I got so lazy that I usually hit cruise control when driving in the city.
Fil Cona *red light*
"Eh."
Poor you lazy.
I use it while driving along the long embankments because otherwise I can't help but start speeding or feeling miserable, lol.
Great video
My daily driver is a Jaguar Stype. Classic. Dead quiet. Comfortable. Pure style. And corners like nothing else quite undramatically if pushed. Love it! It’s a bit pampered but never lets me down. ❤️
10 to 15 year self life uh. Well my cars now pushing 17 with 364,000 km on her. You can't kill a Civic
But the Civic will kill you for sure
My dad's XC90 is 13 years old same as my age with 100,000 miles. Bought it new and it's still going strong. But the volvo mechanics are absolute shit and kinda fucked up the engine mount.
He did say cars now..not 17 years old.
You forgot glass headlights
OMG YES! f--- yellow pos
Circular or rectangular glass headlights*
I was worried about my plastic headlights getting foggy over the years, but my 2004 Honda still has perfectly clear headlights! Don’t ask me how ;)
They always look like they are brand new
louis smeets how?
Classic cars have style and don't look boring.
Most fun car I've owned was a 2002 Alfa Romeo 147 T Spark I named "Little Red", bought the car cheap secondhand and first day pulling into work everyone came out to see what roaring sound was reverberating off the building as I changed down a bit too early. What a fun little car was, sounded like a racing car, turned on a five pence, absolute joy to the drive, so simple mechanically and the reputation for unreliability is definitely undeserved.
4:22 "exceed 250k miles WITH proper maintenance"
*laughs in corolla*
The cars featured there would do that as a bare minimum its not uncommon for them to do double that mileage, you can still see them being used as Taxis in some of the poorer regions in the mediterarian they are tough cars to kill just like Corollas.
Me: Laughs in Prius
@@dylanjb4065 that is sad
As an engineer: The old reliable cars are an statistical oddity, today's cars are more reliable in general. But you will only remember the ones that are still here and you don't see the ones that will keep working later until much later.
Ch1Frequency
I am engineer too....mechanical engineer ....I can c the dif. in reliability obviously.....sorry but u cant even compare but u r right in some aspects.Not all cars lasted
I will give examples of some cars that still relatively expensive here in Baghdad : a 1990 300SE mercedes benz costs between 7000-15000$
A 1991-1995 5th series BMW costs between 5000-11000$
Even the old ones which lasted a long time, like Mercedes, Volvos, etc., still tended to have lots of other issues, it's just that the main components were really sturdy.
Yeah,but nowadays you have to go to the garage.just because a sensor is not working anymore..That you didnt have in old cars.
The reason you see reliable old cars is because they're the only ones left.
clutchthepearls
No shit sherlock? Ofc we wont see many scraped old cars around.
One well made video 👍
Now they are generic tin cans full of sensors. No thanks! I intend to keep my 1993 Honda Civic in good repair.
It does seem like the best cars ever were built in the 90's.
found a propperly maintained 1997 e36 the other day and if everything goes well i'll try to keep it for as long as i live
Mime is 2.2 legacy wagon.. An old lady owned,, garage kept car, with new tming belt etc. Five years on, replaced belt (easy) no trouble whatsoever with it. It has never burned any oil etc.
It's garage kept now too. Generally it's babied.
I'm going to keep it as long as I can!
Good on you I've got an 1997 escort Ghia x love it and I intend to keep it on the road for as long as possible
Found a good condition 1995 FD RX7