[Lakeshark]

An Audi TDI made today would not only smoke your early 80's car, it would get 40 mpg going a hundred.

And be quiet.

[CalTexan]

“An Audi TDI made today would not only smoke your early 80’s car, it would get 40 mpg going a hundred.”

However, it will never go 250k miles+ like my 1987 BMW 535i.
And, I can work on it myself.

New cars will lose 1/2 of their value in three years!
It really doesn’t matter how many miles you get to the gallon when you pay that much for depreciation.

[trebb]

An Audi TDI made today would not only smoke your early 80's car, it would get 40 mpg going a hundred. And be quiet.

Yep - I have a bottom end Mercedes (CLA250) with a 2 liter engine with turbo. It is every bit as quick as the Camry I traded in even though the Camry was a V-6 with 268 HP (my 4 cylinder has 208 HP) and gets 6-10 MPG over what the Camry got. Not to mention it sticks to the road like a cat on a curtain - can't fault today's cars as being overweight and numb - I'd say the author thinks we should all be driving electric Smart cars to minimize our footprint...