I think older cars have their advantages, but so do horses.
I love my cramped Scion FR-S, but I loved my cramped 1972 Opel GT too.
I love having a car with a computer that tells you what’s wrong with it. I love going 200,000 miles on a few oil changes and two sets of plugs.
I’ve got old and new stuff.
A lot of folks forget about how fussy the old stuff can be as far as cold start driveability and such.
I have never liked being forced into these little boxes that the government created, I would much prefer to have my 1960 cars with the natural technological improvements that would have taken place over 55 years, just as they did before 1960.
” but I loved my cramped 1972 Opel GT too.”
I was just to tall and long-legged for the GT. I did get a Manta in’74, and I loved it! Out-handled all the other cars in it’s class. But I started souping it up right after I bought it. There was a place called Mantapart down around Kenosha that had everything, and I bought most everything except fairings, spoilers, etc.. Car was a BMW killer!
My first car was a $100 69 Opel Kadet wagon that I had to rebuild before it would start. I put on a trailer hitch and it would comfortably seat 6'5" me and my 6'9" dad while pulling the johnboat. It was a great little car that I upgraded with junkyard parts from various other Opel sporty models.
I had a 65 Ford pickup with a 352 and an 18 gallon gas tank behind the seat. On a long straight grade just out of town, it would use 1/4 tank of gas getting to the top.
I had an Opel GT too, gold w black interior. Cool car! Everyone said it looked like a “baby ‘Vette.” I didn’t like that.
Had it up to 115 on the Indiana Turnpike. The tuned exhaust just hummed.