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exactly.. This is a sure sign your too old if you can't tell the cars apart.. I hear this sometimes and its always an older person who claims that 'back in the old days, I could tell cars apart'. Guess what? so can my 17 year old Son with todays cars.. They are just as different as you old guys remember! He can tell cars from taillights at 200 years at night.... Because today is his era in cars..
What about the average person on the street? Take off the emblems and have someone (a non car-enthusiast) identify a basic new Honda or Nissan or Chevy.
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I've owned 60's supercars and todays supercars.. They have just as much 'soul' today as they did 40 years ago
Not in a million years! Soul does not reside in plastic!
I've never managed to mistake a Focus for a Honda....
I just don't think it's accurate, even my wife can easily tell the different brands and models apart, when that's the case, a car enthusiast really ought to be able to.
I think it's more a matter of you not being interested in modern cars to the same extent, and because of that, they seem bland. That's not exactly an uncommon phenomena.
Then what are these modern cars...
(I don't know the answer; I had to write down the names of the cars when I took the photos but the paper is long gone.)
You shouldn't have to "find" good music; it should find you.
Same thing with cars.
Wow... ok, let me rephrase. If you don't think there's any good music today, you aren't letting it "find you". Same with cars.
If you want to live in the past, by all means, do so, but that doesn't mean nothing of today has any quality.
I prefer to do both.
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Then what are these modern cars...
The closest ones looks like a Toyota Corolla (Or Geo Prizm, same car), Don't know the second one, might be a domestic or US specific, appears there's a Mailbu almost hidden after it, then a Forester then an Altima. That's all the ones I could see in the picture, though the front of what appears to be a Cadillac is peaking out in the background.
The last picture is a Honda Accord. Everyone should know that, they're all over the place.
EDIT: There's a wing waaaay behind the other cars. It's the only thing you can see, so I'm not sure on this one, but it looks like it might belong to a Honda Civic Type-S.
No matter what the year, car people can always tell what kind of car it is. Period.
You don't even think about it. It automatically registers.
It didn't occur to me until recently that most people aren't like that. They just see a sea of cars...some will think, car, car, SUV...but the whole time in my mind, it's an unconscious registering of not just the make but the MODEL of car everywhere I go.
What about the average person on the street? Take off the emblems and have someone (a non car-enthusiast) identify a basic new Honda or Nissan or Chevy.
Not in a million years! Soul does not reside in plastic!
just like the average non car person 40 years ago. They could not tell one car from another then or now
Not in a million years! Soul does not reside in plastic!
Material makes no matter.. Its how you feel about a car. I remember(in the 70's) old guys who owned cars from the 40's and earlier saying the same thing about 60's and 70's cars.. "These new fangled cars with their paper thin sheet metal and no fins! No one will ever want them like the way everyone will when cars were cars!!" .. They were wrong too
I can usually identify newer cars, but not as well as older cars. Plus they rarely make cars with one or two year unique stylings. Just consider now that most cool modern American cars are meant to be throwbacks.
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