Yep, I do remember that. Cars have advanced so quickly and so well, really, over the past 30 years it’s just amazing. The all electric thing seems good for some applications, but there’s not enough demand there to shift the industry. But I’d have to say that the one change in product design that was for the definite better over the years was the shift to radial belted vs. bias ply tires. We owned a tire shop back then, and everyone was blown away with the difference they made. Lotsa fun watching them drive away, knowing they were thinking “Wow!”
“the shift to radial belted vs. bias ply tires.”
I was one of those “blown away”. I’ll never forget my first drive on radials. Weren’t the first ones from Michlin?
Wasn’t the major obstacle to perfecting them to produce a flexible-enough sidewall?
Remember Goodyear’s “Wide Ovals”, pushed compete with the radials, but those Wide Ovals wore out really quickly, compared to the radials’ 50 or 60 thousand?
True that. Including getting much better mpg than before.
But that's a life lesson that the left is NEVER SATISFIED. Neither the car makers nor anybody else should think, "Okay. If I just do what they're demanding of me now, the left will leave me alone."