Never gonna own a car again but if I did it'd be another 90s Corolla.
My friend still drives his ‘96 Camry to this day: I have offered him money for it and he refuses to sell it under any circumstances.
God, is there a single manufacturer out there that makes no nonsense mechanical shitboxes with zero electronics components like the Japanese cars of yore?
New cars are pretty much PCs, even the Japanese cars
My ten year old nissan shitbox still has crank windows and no keyless entry. It has an aux input and CD player.
My partner, she hates it, but I don't care.
He makes it sound so utilitarian, but these things are actually fantastic and arguably better made than newer mass produced cars. I did an axle on one about 10 years ago and test drove it about 10 miles. It's got tremendously comfy seats and feels great to drive. Not great to drive for the price, great to drive.
Toyota in the 90s worked a lot of the engineering they did for their Lexus brand cars into even the cheap toyotas and it shows. Wish they still were that innovative.
It's so beautiful.
I dream of the "Final car". A car that enters production and never leaves. A car that has big boxy ugly modules in the dash because you're expected to pull the entire module out so you can replace parts and do repairs so they made it real easy to remove. A car where all the parts have labels stamped on them during manufacture. A car that uses one size of fastener so you need one ratchet and that ratchet is included in the car and slots in to a specific slot in the trunk next to the integrated hand pump for the tires. A car that is manufactured entirely from aluminum because aluminum doesn't rust and this car does not have an end of life date. A car for tomorrow, next week, next century.
All the final cars have already been developed, they've just fallen out of regulations on the grounds that "traffic safety" is mostly understood as making sure you can wrap your Mercedes around a tree at 210kph and survive.
All the safety regulations of course have been to the detriment to every other road user, including other cars, but we've taken the eternal arms race of the killdozers as granted since the 60s and we sure as shit ain't stopping now
·10 hours agoLada Niva: 1977-FOREVER
This is amazing. Why? Becuase I now want the fucking 1999 Toyota Corolla.
I'd rather this be a children's book than "My Cybertruck A Techbro Tale"
What's the European equivalent of a corolla? I'm looking for a car rn and I have no idea what the car landscape is around here.
I was going to say nothing but I dunno, a Citroen/Renault? Old Volvos?
All I know is the Germans make shitty, delicate vehicles
If you can find one in decent condition, and can accept 1 l /10 km get a Volvo 24X it will outlive you if you take care of it. If you can do some basic stuff yourself there is like a trillion spareparts to get cheap. Insurance and taxes low ( got like 90 HP)
