There is a bit of nostalgia here to be honest. There has always been a lot of junk in the automotive industry - and the 90s were no different. We just choose to cherry pick the best of the best from that era. The 90s are certainly when cars BEGAN to peak, and no doubt a lot of what is said in this video is true - but you're crazy if you don't think the same will be said about cars that are made even today. Personally, I think the decline in the automotive industry has only just started in the last 10 years, and yet we still get amazing cars even today. Cars certainly have gotten more complex, but don't think for a second that we haven't continued to improve on their reliability. Just think of VW's MQB platform and BMW's F-series platform. The Honda Civic Type R. Toyota's recomittment to sports cars with the GR lineup. Hyundai's N division. Etcetera. People seem to worry about all the creature comforts such as adaptive cruisecontrol, automatic climate control, lane assists, 360 cameras etc. but the reality is that such systems are over-engineered and are incredibly reliable for the most part. If the G42 M240i or Mk8 Golf R came out in the 90s - everyone would have loved them. No one would be treating any of their additional extras as a downside (apart from maybe the larger pricetags). Modern cars are what everyone in the 90s dreamed of. The only exception is going past the 2010s when engines started to get downsized and we lost larger naturally aspirated engines.
Car were unique and people actually bought various different body styles whereas today it’s nothing but crossover SUVs. But what’s ironic is that the whole mainstream suv craze was popularized by a nameplate that was born in the 90s; the ford explorer
I hate cybercrap because its the most american made car and i hate America. Also i am a broke looser and i could never own or afford one. Suck it cybercrap.
So... good explanation, to clarify you're saying EPA standards are essentially a scam? I considered borrowing my neighbor's Dodge Ram to pick up some lumber. Until he tells me the truck bed is only 5'6". And then I realize my beater Honda Accord will HAUL MORE LUMBER than his gas guzzler pickup when using a roof rack and interior space (a full 8'). Plus the Accord is also a more luxurious daily driver.
When I think truck I think extremely reliable. Something you can break, duck tape and just be extremely rough overall and it'll still work. The Cybertruck shuts off in a car wash. That's not the future.
It looks like a SNES version of a car. In fact , it looks exactly like cars in …fast driving? Or the first “test drive” game? For like DOS and then at newest Super Nintendo , with a FX chip added. Yeah….anyone get me?.?
I'm a fan of the engineering design reasons for the cyber truck and have started to like it as a vehicle. Are there issues? Yes glaring ones, but I'll save my final judgment for after they get the production problems worked out several months from now.
It took moving into the 90s to finally see cars that took the road handling so much better, from handling to safety where you actually felt solid and stable at higher speeds!
Please i beg learn how to pronounce things... eh, spree. Mar, Kes. Jew, Jar, o. Also on regulation, the USA has an INCREDIBLE reputation for EXTRAORDINNARILY low standards for car safety stamdards. From what ive heard in europe, USA lacks pedestrian impact safety as like, a thing that IS regulated. That leads to cars this dangerous being sold. This is going to chop someone in america clean in half.
Thanks for the memories. My first car, purchased with my own money earned on my paper routes was a 1963 MG Midget. Ah, the electrical smell when you forgot the car had positive ground and connected the radio backwards. The one I got, used, from a kid in my high school had a bashed in drivers door when he drifted it into a phone pole, not knowing what he was doing at the time. I found a second Midget of the same year in the want ads with a perfect body and chassis, missing an engine. A friend helped me push my older MG with the bashed in door and a working engine up to a telephone pole at the edge of my parents driveway. We got a pulley and hoisted the engine out of the MG, pushed the new MG under the engine, and dropped it in. My best friend had a brother-in-law who raced on the SCCA circuit so we already thought we knew all about racing. Actually we learned a lot by trial and error on the streets. Thankfully the brother-in-laws advice was good. My first car was a great learning experience, both in driving and drifting, and also in working on cars. Of course in high school by my sophomore year when I bought my MG I was 5'6". By graduation I was 6', and a couple years later I was 6'4". Which is to say, sadly, I no longer fit in to a midget or a Miata for that matter, at least the early versions I have tried.
I drive my dad's old 86 Nissan King Cab around still and I have gotten half a dozen random guys coming up to me in parking lots and gas stations offering to buy it. Those small trucks are beloved and still have big followings today.
I've always thought of the massive full front/back interior, short-bed trucks as simply SUV's with an uncovered cargo space. Sort of like the old Forerunners that had a removable cover on the short cargo section. No real difference in design philosophy. I don't like them as general work trucks and never will. You've maximized their SUV aspects and minimized their truck aspects. It's primarily to pretend they're not SUVs and avoid the soccer-mom associations that SUVs enjoy. Funny though, I feel like I see more moms preferring actual mini-vans again than those of the 80s/90s SUV craze.
That dip in deaths looks pretty to align with the period before touch screens. Having to take your eyes the road to adjust the heat or whatever is so stupid.
I'm not a truck guy, but I didn't hate pickup trucks back then. In those days, people brought pickups because they needed them. And the trucks weren't ridiculously oversized like they are now.
Today it’s more about the “wow” factor and who can tack on the biggest iPads on the dash than building the best cars. Don’t even get me started on EVs. Now unless you want a CUV, your options for a sedan are coupe are limited, not to mention the affordability factor, or lack thereof now. I definitely prefer the era in the video. 90s cars I’ve had are an Accord coupe 5speed manual (89), 98 civic coupe 5 speed manual (98), 93 Mustang GT convertible.
Honda's 90s lineup was great. I had an Acura Integra manual. I missed it so much that I got a hatchback 2014 Mazda 3 in manual. Both red hatchbacks, so the Mazda is reminiscent of the Acura, and the dash and cd player actually have a similar design. My Mazda currently has 400,000 miles on it. Original clutch and no engine work done.
No one's gonna see this, but i drive a 97 Mitsubishi Lancer (75hp), been driving it for years and it never fails me, i once had the trunk and back seats full of bags with leftover wood to burn at home, overtook a Lexus like that, most proud moment ever. Also extremely easy to work on, added AC by myself to it, and it still works 3 years later
makes this one pine for the 'Car of Tomorrow' type things from old cartoon shorts. Sure they were insane and impractical, but they were fun and stupid(positive) too. Sure, they'd never work in reality, but clearly the only thing the Cybertruck is doing is telling us we needs stricter regulations on all types of automobile(or just to break our dependance on them entirely)
Do we actually know that the cybertruck is officially classified as a truck? If not it might be that they classed it as some kind of novel/exeption vehicle to get around some of the restrictions.
