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What I am saying is am I the only millennial not into new cars, rather preferring late 90´s to 2004-ish car? I have the money for a new car, but I´d rather buy an old one that I will enjoy rather than get a new one that will work better but be a soulless amalgam of kinetic nonsense.
You aint the only one. I much prefer most of the 1990s and early 2000s styling than the current cars. A few hits, but most are misses IMO.
Issue is that as cars get more features, more "stuff" in general has to be added on and the clean simple lines need to be taken out for lines and edges that make the car stand out from the competitors.
I call 'em "refrigerator cars". You're about as likely to be able to tell one from another as you would if they were refrigerators. Without getting up and looking, do you even know the manufacturer of your refrigerator?
I don't like new cars, they smell funny. I prefer the '52 MGTD. It's a friendly happy car and folks smile when they see it.
Seems like no matter what decade we are in someone likes cars from two decades before. I do not recall anybody liking them back when they were new. What I disdain with a passion are those DRL beads that half of them seem to burned out. Of the big three, Chrysler has the best looking line up.
People ahve been complaining about new car styling since at least the '70s. I remember letters to the editor in Car & Driver and Motor Trend even back then saying the same things. Thing is, cars have always looked like other cars of their era with a few standout exceptions. And MOST cars were boring, bland, mass produced compromises in EVERY era.
You say you like the BMW E46 3 series, well, when it was introduced, BMW was criticized for simply making the same sausage in 3 different lengths (3, 5, and 7 series).
I love cars. I love cars from the '20s through present. There are a lot of good looking cars out now that I wouldn't mind owning, in pretty much every category, from economy cars to luxury cars, to crossovers and SUVs.
You wanna talk overstyled, how about cars like my '63 Mercury Comet? Fins, chrome and bodylines galore. I love it, but let't face it, it is not a simple car. And in it's most basic form, not really a pretty car (this is not mine):
I call 'em "refrigerator cars". You're about as likely to be able to tell one from another as you would if they were refrigerators. Without getting up and looking, do you even know the manufacturer of your refrigerator?
GE and it's a stylish refrigerator.
Most cars over the years have been boring basic sedans, because that's what the average person buys: appliances to get them and their families or stuff from point A to point B.
Cars from teh '50s are recognizeable as being FROM the '50s, but unless you already know them, you wont be able to tell them apart at a glance. This car, due to shared styling cues, could be a GM, Chrysler, or Ford product:
If you KNOW '50s cars, you know it as a Plymouth. If you don't, it's just some old sedan.
My recent car-shopping journey has been boring, boring, boring. All these cars look alike to me and there's not a whole lot that distinguishes one from the other. These days I don't recognize cars by their shape...I have to look at the actual badge to tell what kind it is most of the time.
To me, a lot of large Hyundai sedans (particularly the latest generation Sonata) look eerily like Lexuses until you get close-up. Honda Accords and VWs look alike to me from the rear. Minivans all look the same to my eyes. So do pickup trucks, especially from the side or the rear.
Really the only distinctive things on most cars are the front grills and the badges, at least to me.
I love cars from the 40s, 50s, and 60s. They had such distinctive designs and such flair.
I love cars from the 40s, 50s, and 60s. They had such distinctive designs and such flair.
Look at my picture of 1939 on wheels. Seriously, you can't tell them apart except by reading the names.
'40s cars do not look like '50s cars, which do not look like '60s cars. But '40s cars all look the same as each other, and so do '50s cars and '60s cars. If you don't know them intimately, you'll know which era they are from but not the brand or model.
Most people won't know what this is, but they'll know what year range it's from:
same with this:
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