BEST decade for cars - cars

[Thebag$$$]

for me the best cars were made in the 80s and 90s because then the cars had sharp angles and now they are round cars which is female for me sharp angle cars are more gangster and man also if they have tinted glass it looks really high end even today you can buy these cars cheap and they still look cool and new. what decade cars are best for you these are my favorite cars:

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[Thebag$$$]

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[KateHikes14]

Is it hard being retarded or do you just not notice that everyone has to talk differently when you enter a conversation?

 

[Beautiful Border]

This could be a fun thread but Jesus, learn how to format images.

But yeah, I think I'd agree that the 80s and 90s were the pinnacle of car design (at least style-wise).

 

[Thebag$$$]

Is it hard being retarded or do you just not notice that everyone has to talk differently when you enter a conversation?

stfu "kate" you probabily aint even a woman.

 

[SpookNuker]

The 70s.


1770s, that is.

 

[Thebag$$$]

guns, and cars .

 

[Marissa Moira]

@Thebag$$$

You sound like you're an indian because only pajeets come off this retarded about cars. How many phone scam operations does your dad run?

 

[Beautiful Border]

Just to add more nuance onto my previous post: there were also a lot of cars from that era that were also very uncool. The Ford Ka, Renault Twingo, Vauxhall Corsa, Fiat Multipla...

Conversely, there are still plenty of cool cars being made. The new Acura NSX, Honda Accord, and Ford Mondeo all have pretty cool styling in their own right. You also can't discount improvements in performance, even a bog-standard econobox from today could easily give a high-end sports car from 30 years ago a run for its money. A well-tuned new Ford Focus would trounce a classic Capri or Mustang. Performance wise, modern cars are objectively superior. But yeah, I would agree that older cars were generally better-looking, and I would rather own one over a new car on that basis alone.

 

[xX Puss Slayer Xx]

edit: im fucking retarded

best era for cars is dumb and only personal prefernce, might as well debate whos the sexiest midget

 

[DNA_JACKED]

1960s had a great sense of style and was the last generation designed to look good first and foremost.

Decade of best cars though was IMO the 90s. Cars were reliable enough that 200K miles was expected, not a surprise, but the tech was still simple enough that you could easily fix it yourself. Most of those cars, well treated, will last forever.

 

[Maurice Caine]

Spoiler: air-cooled

 

[Dom Cruise]

The coolest looking cars are cars from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.

 

[Professional Lurker]

OP, do you really have to type like you're a middle schooler who had only just now discovered how to not type run-on sentences but doesn't bother much anyway?

 

[DuckSucker]

stfu "kate" you probabily aint even a woman.

ummm thats not true trans women ARE real women ask the internet, everyone knows they know everything, like which cars are cooler, like my dad's car.

I kinda agree, the era from like the 70s-90s. Cars then were smaller, it seemed, and looked a bit more put together in my opinion, a bit more simple, streamlined and deliberate seeming in design, minimalistic almost. There were still some stylised ones, classic cars and the line, but again, I think that being low-key made them stand out more in their style.

They werent big for the sake of being big, werent chock full of extra shit and seemingly made because "well why WOULDNT you get every single option , and I NEED that 4-cup cupholder for my 72 oz sodas, and the retractable lunch tray for my 600lb life food orders (because lets face it they know I dont have 4 other people with me who could potentially hold the order for me)."

 

[sasazuka]

For design only, I can go from the 1960s, with some of the most handsome sports cars of all time like the Ferrari 250 SWB Berlinetta (and the 250 GTO), the Lamborghini Miura, and the Jaguar E-Type, to the 1980s, with spectacular supercars like the Ferrari F40 and the Porsche 959, plus futuristic-looking (to me as a kid at the time) new incarnations of the Corvette (C4) and the Pontiac Firebird Trans-Am (which, of course, was the basis for K.I.T.T. on Knight Rider), but I'll split the difference and choose the 1970s.



Some things I like about auto design in the 1970s, peak muscle cars (around 1970, obviously pre-malaise), peak station wagon, peak C3 Corvette Stingray (the generation which began with the 1968 model but I think the peak was around 1975 with the more rounded tail end), Bandit-style Pontiac Firebird Trans-Ams, and the origin of some iconic car designs like the Lamborghini Countach, the Volkswagen Golf/Rabbit, the Nissan Fairlady Z/Datsun 240Z, and the "Magnum" Ferrari 308 (eagle-eyed Ferrari fans will probably notice that the Hot Wheels Ferrari seen here represents a 308 GTS Quattrovalvole, which wasn't a thing until the 1982 model year, but I don't really have any accurate representations of the original 308 in ~1/64 scale form). You also had some quirky classics like the AMC Pacer X and the GMC Motorhome (not shown in the picture but quite space-age looking for an RV, even by 2020 standards).

 

[Thebag$$$]

The coolest looking cars are cars from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.

there werent commercial cars in 30s i believe only for police etc.

i cant imagine 60s 70s cars in todays scenario because they would be too slow and cars now look much different than they did then. cars from for example 1953 would not survive in today world.
where i live people mostly drive 2000s cars or 90s cars so they are common but in 10 years when we get cars from 2010s it will suck because they are pretty bad.

 

[Doctor Placebo]

It really is hard to beat the 1970's when it comes to classic, timelessly cool aesthetics. A lot of the cool cars in 80's movies are actually holdovers from the 70's. Ironic considering how dumb the clothing fashion was.






80's cars leaned too hard into an angular "futuristic" aesthetic IMO, although I guess if you love Bladerunner, they're the car decade for you.


The 90's were a boring decade for cars.

 

[Thebag$$$]

an average car from the 90s is faster than an average car from the 70s or 80s.

 

[sasazuka]

an average car from the 90s is faster than an average car from the 70s or 80s.

I really only care about aesthetics, you need a racetrack with a very long straight (or a very long, straight, and empty desert road with no cops or photo radar around) for the top speed of a car to be of that much relevance.