why are vintage cars so fucking cool compared to modern slop wagons?

regulations i think
thats why every single car on the road looks like an egg now

they were tools built to last and not overpriced goy machines meant to be replaced after every fender bender

>>81728940
>regulations on aesthetics
elaborate

>>81728950
unnecessary amounts of regulations on gas emissions and safety force companies to design big cars that look like shit
theres no regulation on aesthetics but looking like shit is just an emergent property of the in-place regulations

>>81728950
If you crash in a vintage car, death is basically a certainty.
Veterans (as we call them) are beautiful and I absolutely fucking despise modern car designs, but the one thing they're good at is protecting the driver.

>>81728950
They didn't regulate aesthetics, but Obama era CAFE regulations did regulate a certain amount of efficiency in engines, which is why they're all engineered to be ugly samey blobs.

It's also why small trucks like the old Ford Ranger disappeared: it's far easier to meet emissions standards for large vehicles.

>>81728950
>regulations on aesthetics
There are regulations on fuel efficiency, which require more streamlined design; Turning everything into an egg.
The other route is making the car bigger to classify it as a truck or large vehicle so as to 'justify' it's slightly lower fuel economy.

Because of the deliberate enshittification that has been happening since the 60s.
People used to give a shit. Now they don't. Everything is cheap and generic, but over-priced as fuck. I hate this life.

Safety regulations are a major part of why cars are less cool nowadays. You even had it back in the 90s when pop-up headlights came then went away (less safe for pedestrians if you mow them down) and the look of front-ends changed (e.g. the Lotus Elan had a completely different ugly bumper exclusively for the US market because safety regulations demanded it)

>>81728930 (OP)
Car comes out and people love it.

5 years later it's universally hated.

30-40 years later it becomes 'vintage' and is loved again.

>>81728930 (OP)
they kill the car guys driving them, and fewer car guys is a good thing

>>81728930 (OP)
https://www.paulgraham.com/design.html

i don't think that car looks that cool

>>81728930 (OP)
>Modern safety regulations demanding crumple zones and electrical systems. All of this adds weight and messes with design. The added weight and lack of driver involvement also leads to worse dynamics and a boring experience.
>Most cars being designed by computers and committees and shaped by regulations, instead of one artistic genius freely expressing his vision like in the olden days.
>Idiotic pussified buyers wrongly associating high ground clearance with safety, leading to ugly, stupid, pointless SUVs/crossovers selling well. Manufacturers build what sells.
>Modern emmissions regulations punishing manufacturers for using big, cool-sounding engines.
I grew up liking cars and I still mainly play racing video games. But my favorite cars all come from the 60s up until the 00s. After that, regulations and stupid buyers have steered cars into becoming boring white goods, like washing machines and microwave ovens, with only very few exceptions.

classic cars look and sound amazing but if an electric car shaped like an egg is the car that will keep me and my family safe when a boomer/nigger drives drunk and crashes into us then i know what i support
we ought to have taxpayer funded race tracks with old cars where people can pay a small fee and sign a waiver to drive so public roads can be as safe as possible

For me its a 1973 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray