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Some excellent double entendres between Kutner and Taub, one of the better scenes they've ever had. I don't like Kutner, or Taub much either.
 
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That's really ugly looking. I'm sure it goes fast and all but cars all look the same today - a sheet metal jelly bean wrapped around seats. 😀
 
1970s cars don't interest me. Huge, usually visually unappealing, and compared against modern cars, far inferior in performance terms.
 
MotF Bane said:
I want that bleeding edge of performance.
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With parts made in China?

Go back to the 30s and see real machinery made by hand. 😉

Lift the hood on a modern auto and you have to look for the engine under all those hoses and other "environmental control" junk.

Big cars with big displacement in the 60s and early 70s got very respectable gas mileage (providing the driver didn't lose their foot in the carburetor!). No UNLEADED GAS! Then the Japanese brought four cylinders in a car called the CVCC which would later be known as the modern Honda Civic. Boring! Did you know Honda had a three cylinder automobile too?

Sure high tech, oval pistons, six valves per cylinder, distributor-less ignition systems, ECU, (I could go on and on) are interesting from a tech standpoint. But in the end you still have a box with four wheels rolling on the road. Way too much plastic in cars. :thumbsdown:
 
Rubycon said:
With parts made in China?

Go back to the 30s and see real machinery made by hand. 😉

Lift the hood on a modern auto and you have to look for the engine under all those hoses and other "environmental control" junk.

Big cars with big displacement in the 60s and early 70s got very respectable gas mileage (providing the driver didn't lose their foot in the carburetor!). No UNLEADED GAS! Then the Japanese brought four cylinders in a car called the CVCC which would later be known as the modern Honda Civic. Boring! Did you know Honda had a three cylinder automobile too?

Sure high tech, oval pistons, six valves per cylinder, distributor-less ignition systems, ECU, (I could go on and on) are interesting from a tech standpoint. But in the end you still have a box with four wheels rolling on the road. Way too much plastic in cars. :thumbsdown:
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Yeah, and despite all that awful environmental junk, those emissions requirements, the safety regulations, and the sometimes amorphous blob-like bodies, these new "boring" cars are, in terms of performance, massively superior to their predecessors.

Carburetor? How primitive. Electronic fuel injection is so much better - we have all this computer technology, might as well get some use out of it. A sub 4 liter V6 can beat... well, hell, I'd confirm what my memory is telling me, but Google decided to take the night off.
 
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