Here in Pakistan, a common thing that teachers teach their driving students that Everyone other than you is not mentally stable, so the onus of your own safety lies only with you. You have to save yourself and others.
2:50 This is good advice that is seldom heard. "pacing" a vehicle by driving next to it, or in its blind spot for a long distance is a dangerous and obnoxious habit.
The sub compacts then were smaller than almost anything you can get today. Kinda funny, the difference between what they now call "large" and "small" isn't much anymore. Almost all cars look basically the same nowadays, especially when compared to the 70's and 60's. Which is why everyone just buys trucks now, lol. They are working one crafting laws to take those away too, tho. Eventually they'll make it so that you need to have a CDL and be a business to own a full sized pickup.
@@l337pwnage No they are not. But realistically, automakers are making such a pig's breakfast of building trucks nowadays that they really are not so useful as they once were.
@@unconventionalideas5683 Go to a Honda dealership and look at the first Civics. They were _chain drive,_ because they were so small. Find a Chevy Sprint, at least I think that is the name. Or the famous Geo Metro. Those are still wanted by people because no modern car car touch the MPG. Maybe _some_ of the hybrids, and only _maybe._ 80's Subaru's could get 44 MPG on the highway.
The bottom line ? Small cars from the '70s were just horrible. It took another 30 years of development to make them more or less acceptable in terms of interior space, comfort, safety etc. (starting with Ford Focus Mk I and the like).
Well Vw Beetle remains for this day the best selling car ever and have been produced from 38' to 02'. I can tell you it is the best small car I've ever had. Trust me, 70s' cars were great ;)
And America's foray in the late 70s through the 80s in the building of small cars of which 90% were junk. When Toyota and Nissan were building better cars than we were. 🤤
1:14 this part saddens me the most. I saw a modern car (it was a tesla) that went 20 miles per hour or so, it tried this when it was cut off, turned and flipped 3 times. honestly... who owns companies today, the original talented and intelligent owners grandkids? they aren't their father, it's like a prince becoming king when he hasn't really had the years to understand the necessities of what makes an automobile. and now we are at the stage were barely any modern users look to the past for anything but a hot rod, and even fewer watch the real unbiased videos of the past such as the examplars shown straight and center here. Pitty, really disappointing what has happened and how we gave off our quality for asia to mass manufacturer for robot arms today.
You sure about that? The VW rabbit shown could easily click off 45 mpg tanks if it was equipped with the diesel. Heck even the Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera could get 35 with the diesel!
