Best cars?
I’m going to go out on a limb and say - no - it was the decade of the smogged out, choked out motors. The decade of 172 horsepower 400 cubic inch engines as opposed to today’s 300+ HP engines of half that size. It was the decade where the Corvette could barely do a 1/4 mile drag run in 16.1 seconds (1978) whereas even today, trucks like my 2017 F-150 with the twin turbo 3.5 liter did the 1/4 mile in under 15 seconds.
Tough times for vehicles (thanks, Jimmy Carter) though there were some really nice lookers out there (and some duds).
I’ll go out and try to lay a patch with my Honda CR-V.
I’ll let you know how it goes.
I can’t tell one car from another these days. They all look the same.