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Are Old Cars the Best?
I've read a lot of stuff on here.
It seems like newer cars (2005+) usually have huge engines, all manner of bells and whistles, and their bodies just look absolutely ruined when you add any aeromods. Furthermore, they generally weigh more than older cars.
Better safety is obviously important, but it seems like the mods it would take to get, say, a Chevy Spark or Nissan Micra up to 70 mpg are going to much more involved than the mods to get a Civic VX or a Geo Metro up there. Also, the Spark and Micra are just going to cost a lot more because of how new all of them are, even if you buy used.
Do we have to wait 10 years before it becomes cost effective to work on currently modern econoboxes?
Will there become available cheap body modification technology that looks at least slightly better than coroplast signs?
Or by 10 years from now will all cars be so completely optimized for FE that we won't need to buy the cars of today or the 90's in order to mod something into hypermiler range?
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