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We can test your 30 year old cars feeling with numbers. Less than 10% of vehicles on the road in the US are 21 or more years old: https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/v

• mpweiher 10y ago
  You seem to confuse 'cars with old technology' with 'old cars', though I am not sure how "cars with '50s technology" could have led to that confusion. Anyway, these are not even close to being the same. I was talking about the fact that the new cars being sold had ancient technology. These were not "feelings". I mean, they were selling cars with rigid axles that would screech when turning corners. My dad (who worked for both US and German carmakers) explained other details to me about the engines, about fit-and-finish etc., but it was also painfully obvious for a layperson like myself.
  • planteen 10y ago
    I missed what point your anecdote was making. I think the adjective 'new' would have made it a lot clearer. And there was no verb in your original "sentence". I guess your point was that the US was like a developing country in 1981 because new cars were sold with 50s technology? Do you still fell like that is the situation today? I thought you were trying to say the US is/was like a developed nation because of the age of the cars on the road. I don't have a feel for what the worldwide car technology situation was in 1981, I was a few years from being born.