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Originally Posted by CFrance
Ha ha! I had a British sports car in the '70s that, according to the almost-only foreign car mechanic in town, financed his winter trip to the Bahamas every year. My husband would call him, and he'd say, "Where is it now?!" Or something like, "Cars don't BREAK axels anymore."
I'll take the mechanical reliability and non-rusting finish of today's cars.
I'll also take the internet, the cell phones, the microwaves, the blue tooth ways of monitoring your home, and any other technological advance that has freed up our leisure time and generally made life easier. I'm talking to you, online banking.
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Don't break axels anymore? My brother in laws brother had a Bug Eyed Sprite that the previous owner put the engine from a fast back Volvo into. The car was so overpowered that he would regularly break the drive shaft.
I've not drive a shift in many years. Not much fun in bumper to bumper traffic towing a boat. Put in any case, it is not at all the same today. A lock up automatic for most people will give them better gas mileage. Due to pollution controls you cannot use the engine to control speed as it will accelerate to prevent pollution.
Quote from Mark Twain-we do not make any progress because as we move forward we loose what was.