Your favourite decade for cars

00ec25

BillScarab wrote: »

Although I wasn't driving then I'd have to go with the 60's. It was the heyday of British car manufacturing. All those lovely Jags, MGs, Triumphs etc. and no speed cameras.

What could be better than cruising around on, relatively, uncongested roads in an E-Type?

i agree with the sentiment, but sadly having spent a childhood being driven around in those cars, I reckon the best decade for cars is now, because the damn things are now reliable and you actually get there

Sandoval

movilogo wrote: »

Now!

because

I have enough money to buy a good car
Latest cars are safer
cars have all creature comfort
They are fuel economic
They come with longer warranties

You sound wild!

Long warranties and fuel economy! YAY! :rotfl:

cyclonebri1

Anyone that doesn't think it's today does not have their head screwed on correctly. Sandoval I exclude you as saying you agree due to there being a need for the exception to the rule:p.

I love my old cars but I still remember driving them all week and fixing them all weekend

Low, as in almost no maintenance costs.

Cheaper for todays economic motors than the garbage of yesteryear

And they just don't rust like they used to do

And look at what you now get for the pennies, AC, ABS, TC, D brakes all round, marsh mellows and firecrackers, etc etc etc.

Beats a 1966 Morris 1100. ;)


Nostalga is great but a bit cloudy

fatbelly

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

Beats a 1966 Morris 1100. ;)

Basil agrees with you...

voiceofreason

00ec25 wrote: »

i agree with the sentiment, but sadly having spent a childhood being driven around in those cars, I reckon the best decade for cars is now, because the damn things are now reliable and you actually get there

....while on the flipside, I really like all that British metal of the 70s; gorgeous-though-rusty motors from Rootes and Vauxhall and Leyland and the like - lovely, lovely stuff

I'm serious, too.

AdrianHi

1990's because the equipment than I'm interested in having in a car existed by then, safety standards are up because NCAP has been going for a while but it is before the worst of the compromises come in all in the name of emissions control and being environmentally friendly.
1990's designed BMW 3 series (E36 and to some degree E46) and 5 series (E39 - probably the finest saloon ever made) peaked for driver enjoyment, down hill ever since.
Also compare late 1980's to early 1990's VW Golf GTi to know as a drivers car.
The latest cars are too full of electronic gadgetry - this coming from an IT consultant :rotfl:

pianeet

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

Anyone that doesn't think it's today does not have their head screwed on correctly. Sandoval I exclude you as saying you agree due to there being a need for the exception to the rule:p.

I love my old cars but I still remember driving them all week and fixing them all weekend

Low, as in almost no maintenance costs.

Cheaper for todays economic motors than the garbage of yesteryear

And they just don't rust like they used to do

And look at what you now get for the pennies, AC, ABS, TC, D brakes all round, marsh mellows and firecrackers, etc etc etc.

Beats a 1966 Morris 1100. ;)


Nostalga is great but a bit cloudy

yep got to agree,how can you be nostalgic about a talbot solara,morris ital,austin allegro,and all the other unreliable rubbish built in the 70's and 80's

spadoosh

movilogo wrote: »

Now!

because

I have enough money to buy a good car
Latest cars are safer
cars have all creature comfort
They are fuel economic
They come with longer warranties

And the bugatti veyron!?!

AdrianHi

spadoosh wrote: »

And the bugatti veyron!?!

1001 bhp and 11.7 mpg (imperial) combined compared with the "paltry" 600bhp of the 1980's Ferrari F40 which has a similar fuel consumption figure.
So yes, getting better :rotfl:

iolanthe07

I have to agree with the 1960's. My dad had one of the first Porsche 911's in the country around about 1965. I was 19 then, and he would let me drive it occasionally. There didn't seem to be any problem over the insurance - it was just 'any driver'. No speed cameras, unrestricted motorway (when you could find one) = pure bliss!