What's a technology that was cooler in its older iterations?
What's a technology that was cooler in its older iterations?
I don't mean BETTER. That's a different conversation. I mean cooler.
An old CRT display was literally a small scale particle accelerator, firing angry electron beams at light speed towards the viewers, bent by an electromagnet that alternates at an ultra high frequency, stopped by a rounded rectangle of glowing phosphors.
If a CRT goes bad it can actually make people sick.
That's just. Conceptually a lot COOLER than a modern LED panel, which really is just a bajillion very tiny lightbulbs.
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Cars used to be cool. Every car company had some kind of sporty car, a couple cheap cars, a big luxury sedan and, a while ago, a station wagon.
Now every car is an SUV or CUV. Sedans are getting phased out. Cool sports cars don't make money so they don't make them. People don't buy station wagons so they don't make them. And they're pushing big, angry trucks on everyone.
This, so much this. As a car enjoyer, seeing cars slowly mutate into giant bloated expensive iPads on wheels is painful. I don't want to buy any car made past 2010 and I know that won't be a viable option soon.
In the last episode of The Grand Tour Clarkson said that he's done with cars because they've become appliances, and it's no fun reviewing microwaves.
And we can't get small trucks due to a loophole in EPA regulations. I just want something like an old-school Ranger, light, easy on gas, two jump seats in the back for the kids.
The old Ford Rangers were definitely not easy on gas, and those back seats were extremely unsafe. But we could absolutely have trucks that size now that are fuel efficient and safer, and I would buy one in a heart beat. Hell, I tried to buy a Maverick but it's been impossible every year and now they don't even come with the hybrid drivetrain standard so I've lost interest.
Compared to any of the bigger trucks of the dame vintage? They were cheaper on gas
Alternately, I'd take an El Camino.
Fuck yeah, I'd love an El Camino
I'd take it even further: Cars used to be cool - in the 50s to late 60s. Modern cars look so bloody bland in comparison. I'm sure there were duds as well, but the models that show up in period pieces look way cooler than anything we have today.
The engine compartment of a really old car, say pre-1970s, is almost comically empty. Anything newer has so many ducts and hoses you can't see the ground.
People don’t buy station wagons so they don’t make them.
Hatchbacks are just renamed station wagons. Change my mind.
I'd say a hatchback is a sedan with the trunk/boot removed, while a station wagon has the trunk/boot extended to the roofline. Hatchbacks would end up shorter than the sedan or wagon version of cars.
All the station wagon I ever owned I could comfortable sleep in the back of, with a partner. Hatchbacks are way too short.
I'm tired of fuckin hatchbacks, I just want a regular car, not an SUV, not a truck, just, a fucking car car.
I'd like it if hatchbacks could be hot again and not SUVs. Ford Focus, VW Golf, those sorts of things.
That's all well and good if you want one.
I want a plug-in hybrid, and almost every option is either unflattering or expensive https://www.caranddriver.com/features/g15377500/plug-in-hybrid-car-suv-vehicles/
Sedan or coupe?
I mean really I'd prefer a four door but more for carrying... A little more stuff? I don't know, I really want a Rivian but they're like 80k and all.
I mostly want a four door so I can throw shit in the back.
A rear door is handy for throwing shit in the back tho - I wouldn't even buy a car without a hatchback for that very reason.
I'm a fan of (five door) hatchbacks, but station wagons were fucking cool
It’s because people want a big boot. In Europe hatchbacks/cross overs are favored over sedans for that reason. And people just don’t like the look of a station wagon/estate car. Only the luxury brands still make sedans.