Your favourite decade for cars

mark5

The 80's to very Early 90's for me when I was in Vegas a few years back I went in a car museum it had all the mad cars from this era, RS200's, [EMAIL="RS500@s"]RS500@s[/EMAIL], Metro 6R4's, Old school 911's!

Strider590

Gloomendoom wrote: »

The current decade does it for me. Cars are just getting better looking.

The 80's and early 90's has to be the worst period so far. So many mundane, boring cars.

Precisely the reason I hate modern cars...... They've gone all "fluffy bunny" looking, with big googly eye's, built in plant pots, stupid grins and fat !!!!'s.

They're making headlamps (and other details) bigger so that the cars look proportionally smaller than they really are.... It's not til you park a new VW Golf next to a 1990's Volvo estate that you realise how big they're making these so called "small/medium cars".

To get a car with a hint of aggression and purpose, you've got to re-mortgage your house, back in the 80's/90's this was not the case.

You either spend a small fortune or you settle for looking like a hairdresser (no offence).

Lum

90s.

80s and earlier are pretty much all rotbuckets now, unless you give them special treatment.
90s was where they'd just really gotten to grips with electronic fuel injection, giving some major gains over carburettors without massively overcomplicating them to the point that you can't fix them yourself.

The 90s Japanese cars in particular were often very overengineered and thus pretty damn reliable, and by this point even the Japanese had solved the worst of the rust problems (Japan doesn't salt it's roads so their 80s cars just wern't built for it)

The gains in the 00s have been comparatively small, and all the normal cars are all slowly starting to look the same. There is so much emissions !!!!!!!! in the name of "saving the planet" which may well save a few grams of CO2 but make the cars overcomplicated, difficult for normal people to repair and as a result they become scrap much sooner. It isn't even worth worrying about the rust problem any more when the DPF will go first.

For me the 90s provide the prefect balance of reliability, efficiency and lack of complexity.

That said my dad thinks that EFI is the work of the devil and is happy to tinker for hours on a carburettor. To me carburettors are pure witchcraft.