Cowabunga
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- Ceredigion,Wales
Trouble is just like almost everything else. The newer something is, the less reliable, less capable and more boring and detached they become to drive.
I disagree about reliability. Most cars from the last twenty years are far and away more reliable than older ones and they generally get better all the time. It would be a very rare car in the 1970's that reached 70,000 miles without shedloads of parts being thrown at it and an engine and possibly a major gearbox repair thrown in. Today we think nothing of running reliably for 150,000+ with hardly a hiccup.
Also we have reliable batteries and starters, brakes that don't melt the other side of the hill from Forage Trader, points and distributor caps that have disappeared rather than needing maintenance every 3000 miles. Oil changes every 15,000 miles instead of 3000.
On top of which we have power steering, ABS, no torque steer or tramlining, power and economy you only dreamed of last century. Performance form quite ordinary cars today that match or better the supercars of yesterday.
I reckon that people look back with spectacles heavily dipped in rose-petal honey. Get a Focus ST with Drift Mode to see how it compares with legacy models. I'll tell you now that its in a different league. It might as well be from a different planet, its that involving and exciting. Even the more mid range models will sh!t on earlier models of Focus and Escorts.
Try the Mini. Customisable in so many ways and exciting to drive, as the Mini always was, but now with the quality, performance, handling, reliability and desirability that makes it a worldwide success and a really world class product. The John Cooper Works model had no match back in the day. It used to be just hype. Nowadays you can drive the dream.