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To: mewzilla

Cars stopped being fun decades ago, because you’ve gotten old, not because of the cars.


27 posted on 05/04/2024 4:47:10 AM PDT by rod5591
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To: rod5591

Pard, I’ve driven or ridden in everything from a Model T to a Porche. I’ve squeezed my long legs into A Triumph TR7 and a 60s VW Bug. I’ve ridden in a car powered by a Wankel engine. Another run on biofuel.

My favorite car is a 1930s Ford.

Thank God we don’t have a garage.

Now name me a car on the market now that comes close to any of those.

I’ll wait. :-)


31 posted on 05/04/2024 4:55:24 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: rod5591

Cars used to be fun because they had individuality and variety. Plus there was a certain amount of skill required to drive a manual transmission particularly with a column shift. Now all cars are boring tin boxes in earth tones. We took four barrel dual exhaust freedom machines and turned them into appliances— in most cases you may as well be driving a dishwasher.


33 posted on 05/04/2024 4:59:52 AM PDT by Cowman
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To: rod5591

“Cars stopped being fun decades ago, because you’ve gotten old, not because of the cars.”

No, they stopped being fun due to govt. mandates


43 posted on 05/04/2024 5:47:47 AM PDT by 1756-L85E
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To: rod5591
Cars stopped being fun decades ago, because you’ve gotten old, not because of the cars.

You could be on to something as I drove a new Mercedes every 2-3 years depending on the lease and the tax payers paid for them until Reagan changed the tax code.

After that, I bought them but still got a new one every 4 years but when I retired, my last one went over a small cliff {totaled} and I got a Toyota which I've kept for 15 years and it still runs like a top.

If this one quits running well, I'll get another one, but it won't be electric and it won't be new.

65 posted on 05/04/2024 6:59:23 AM PDT by USS Alaska (NUKE ALL MOOSELIMB TERRORISTS, NOW.)
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