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Originally Posted by darcane
I still love cars, and I think I always will.
As that trend dwindles in the wrong direction, my fleet of cars is getting progressively older.
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My father told me once that his father always wanted a brand new 1932 Dodge. I didn't understand that when I was a kid, but I'm older now and want a brand new third generation Honda Accord (Preludes perfectly acceptable!).
What is driving? Changing speed and direction. Isaac Newton said you need a small car to do that properly: overcoming inertia works better when you bring less mass.
Overpowered barges that Kingofwylietx applauds (Raptor? WK SRTs? Really?) are not sporty. Their engines could easily be placed in less bargelike platforms, but they're not. Because they're not about driving, they're "vehicular viagra", and I don't mean that in a good way. I remember the LM002, the Syclone, the Lightning, even the Ram SRT 10. Three words cover them all: pa, fscking, and thetic. They can not turn well except when compared to their own base versions, and they could accelerate much better if their powertrains were in smaller platforms. Adding a few hundred horsepower to go in a straight line does nothing for me, especially in something gratuitously overweight.
Someone wanting to add a few hundred horsepower to make a pickup truck go in a straight line makes me question their sanity. Someone wanting to add a few hundred horsepower to make a Jeep go in a straight line leaves nothing to question.
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Originally Posted by JSH
EDIT: Two CUVs made by the same company, on the same platform and built on the same assembly line
Images from Car and Driver
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You're going to see more cosmetic differences between two (or three) "models" made by the same company than you're going to see between five or ten offerings in the same market niche by five or ten different companies. Why? Because when sheetmetal is the only difference, the sheetmetal will vary widely. Styling's great, when it's
"Here is our car, and we make it look this way". Styling sucks when it's
"Here is one of the many "versions"
of our car that we will pretend are different so you think you have choices".