Is CAR CULTURE dead
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Date: July 3rd, 2020 10:00 AM Author: Slate haunted graveyard
There are subreddit types who obsess over mods and stuff, but mass car culture seems dead.
Families going for a drive. Neighbors gathering to welcome you home with your new car. Roadside attractions. Motels not full of meth heads. Destination cities between the coasts. Excitement at new year models. Boys being able to name cars.
Cheap airfare is the likely culprit, right
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Date: July 3rd, 2020 3:57 PM Author: red duck-like boistinker
i just don't know what that means
https://lithub.com/the-car-culture-thats-helping-destroy-the-planet-was-by-no-means-inevitable/
this link came up. so basically just romanticizing long distance driving in songs? i mean yeah that shit's dead mostly cause we have cooler toys nowadays. like iphones, tik tok, virtual reality, etc.
back in the day the coolest technology was a really nice american built car.
we've moved on from that, tech-wise.
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Date: July 3rd, 2020 10:05 AM Author: Hot adventurous parlour prole
I blame car seats for kids
You used to be able to pack kids anywhere: front seat, gunner position in a station wagon. Now loading kids in a car is a fucking chore.
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Date: July 3rd, 2020 10:07 AM Author: Sapphire crusty market
Regulation killed cars. Ever notice how every brand looks practically identical now? Thank the EU for their pedestrian protection standards, the EPA for fuel economy requirements, and women/cucks for only buying white, black, silver, and gray cars.
https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*uEe9rvbQB8XM6uYWT_6vng.jpeg
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Date: July 3rd, 2020 10:09 AM Author: Orange Dilemma
I remember families on our cul-de-sac coming out to see our family pull into the driveway in our new Pontiac.
I cant imagine the circumstances now. My mother telling the other moms, "We're going to get the new car Tuesday after X gets home from work"? The wives telling their husbands? Families all chilling after dinner and coming outside on a June evening? My dad actually piling all the kids into the old car to drive to the dealership? How did that all happen. There were there BEFORE we pulled onto the street
After pulling into the driveway, we kids all started playing in the yards and the men gathered and probably talked about finances and the engine and the women gossiped or whatever.
It feels like something from before WWI but I actually lived this shit in the 80s.
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Date: July 3rd, 2020 10:22 AM Author: scarlet blood rage genital piercing
I read an interesting article a few years back blaming the decline of car culture in part on the increased computerization in cars. The whole teen boy working on his car doesn't play much these days because cars now need a sophisticated level of repairs and maintenance due to the computer systems interfacing with just about every part in the car.
And the quality between luxury and ordinary cars has greatly diminished, so luxury cars are now both more ubiquitous and less interesting. I remember my dad's BMWs from the 1980s-2005 period and even though he only drove the 3 series, the difference between it and your common car was enough to make it stand out. But look at today's Civics and Corollas? They're much better cars than the 1990s BMWs ever were.
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Date: July 3rd, 2020 11:23 AM Author: Sepia odious sanctuary keepsake machete
Far from it. Thanks to the internet, you will see over 1000 cars randomly show up in a parking lot somewhere or the same number of overland vehicles in a field for an event. The internet has made working on a car easier than ever even if the cars are much more complex.
There are subcultures for many things from stance, import, euro, mopar, chevy, trucks, jeeps, vans etc. Pretty much every brand has a following.
And yes, almost no one cares about a Ford Escape or whatever POS crossover is the preferred form of cheap transportation today, but that was never true in the past either. No one cared about a Vega or lumina or pinto or Taurus.
But because the new cars are mostly so generic, the older cars values are strong and the depreciation on some of the special interest vehicles is low.
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Date: July 3rd, 2020 2:02 PM Author: Supple dark locale
I remember in the early 90s when my parents bought a new car and our neighbors came over to check it out. My dad took us and some of the neighbor kids out for ice cream in it. 180 memories of a by gone America
I’m watching an auto auction on TV now and the crowd is literally filled with boomers buying cars from the 60s/70s. LJL at the idea of millennials trying to buy some faggy crossover in 30 years. The cars they make now a days are completely disposable.
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Date: July 3rd, 2020 2:03 PM Author: razzle rose location boiling water
I think it exists but it's smaller and has manifested differently.
Before it was more about doing what you could your car to juice it up or make it better than what it's supposed to be whereas now it seems like it's more based on appreciating cars for being relics of their time and the conditions under which they were made. Before it was a budget performance maximization thing--people racing and all--but now it's more something that stems from historical appreciation.
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Date: July 3rd, 2020 4:15 PM Author: spectacular green hunting ground boltzmann
yes. v8 and up is dead and v6 soon.
part and parcel of our diverse future
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Date: July 3rd, 2020 5:12 PM Author: Deep stag film affirmative action
Modding culture is in decline for a variety of reasons (for example, cars are far more electronic so you can't as simply install whatever and not have it trip some sensor that you can't fix/clear yourself). It used to be the case that you could throw in some cheap aftermarket parts and see real results. But the other side of it is that cars are much faster stock. A decade ago we had a number of Porsches with a 6-7 0-60 time. These days, that is outright slow. That's what my Jeep with a V8 has. We now have a number of cars with sub 3 0-60 times totally stock (hellcats, Teslas, Porsches, etc.). Hell, my Cybertruck will have that. So there's little incentive to mod. My BMW gets low 4 second 0-60 and I could get it into the 3s if I mod it. But it is so fast that it seems pointless.
That said, if you look around on roads you see a ton of expensive, fast cars so it isn't like people have stopped spending on fast luxury cars.
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Date: July 3rd, 2020 8:34 PM Author: vivacious henna filthpig
I was as into cars and racing as much as anyone in the past. However, these days:
- Covid; I'm just not driving.
- Automatic transmissions have surpassed manuals for performance. Getting a manual now is purely for the experience, and on really high HP cars it's less fun because the first two, sometimes three gears you have to hold back because of wheel spin.
- Out of the box performance of even boring appliances is, as others have stated, already ridiculous when it comes to straight line speed. Miatas are still fun to drive, but it is kind of a mood kill with the asian family in their Sienna/Odyssey minivan can smoke you off the line. So at this point, the need or desire to modify anything beyond an ECU tune for power is pretty much gone.
- iPad dashboards. Interior design and ergonomics used to be a big way you could distinguish car companies apart. Button layout, quality of plastics, leather and wood, etc. Now it's just one big fucking screen slapped in the middle of everything.
- The price of cars. I see a ton of proles rolling around in $40-50k trucks that are decked out like a Mercedes inside. Even a "family oriented" Toyota Highlander is easily a $40-50k car and Camrys and Accords have $30k+ MSRPs now. That results in super long financing terms (60-84 months) that, coupled with reliability, leads people to not trade cars in often. If you don't buy frequently, you think less about new cars and prioritize SUVs that can do a lot of things.
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Date: July 3rd, 2020 11:21 PM Author: Deep stag film affirmative action
Jeep Grand Cherokee Hellcat
A Tahoe Z71 with a 6.2L V8
A used Hummer
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