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It's 1992. Your mom just took you through the Dairy Queen drive in after supper. It was 30C today, and it's going to be 35C tomorrow. You're going to go swimming at the local outdoor pool with your mom, little brother, auntie and favourite cousin, tomorrow though. Mom will probably put on that Blue Rodeo tape on the way back. It's not your favorite, but you find yourself waiting for the song hooks.
Life is simple and life is good.
And it smelled like 20-year-old cigarette smoke
The emissions acts really forced a lot of painful innovation. Engines like the Cadillac HT 4000 went to aluminum blocks, or we utterly throttled by shitty computers and carbourator tuning.
Sure. 350 cid engine, small 2bbl carb.
Hasn't the weight of cars been increasing? Pick a model and track the curb weight over generations. It seems to be going up.
Except for EVs (which are heavy af because of the batteries) curb weight is down significantly from the 70s to today. It has been steadily trending upwards, but slowly, since around 2012. It’s hard to make a car as heavy as they used to be back when everything was steel and weld joints. Engines were bigger back then too — because they were less efficient.
Thanks for the input. Is there a model of car we can use to show this trend? I tried doing it with a VW Golf, but that just showed the upward trend.
It's mostly that the old American land yachts are no longer as big. Look at the fifth generation Lincoln Continental vs any after it. Or the 1960s Cadillac Eldorado, a 2.2 ton 2 door car
European and Asian cars have been trending up in size meanwhile but there have been instances where a new generation model is lighter than the old one due to the materials used.
https://www.consumeraffairs.com/automotive/average-car-weight.html
Here’s an article about it. Thanks for making me look it up, it has an important little fact at the top, which is the pickups have trended steadily upward over that same period which I didn’t know. However, other vehicle types have trended steadily downwards, and are still below their previous figures.
Thanks for that. Drawing a line between cars and SUVs helped clarify average vehicle weight as the sum of two different trends.
It's 1992. Your mom takes you to Dairy Queen in her oldsmobile. She lights up a cigarette. She asks if you want one. You say no. She says stop acting like such a pussy. You take the cigarette. She lights it for you.
Pretty sure this car had more ashtrays than it did safety features too
hey if it's in a crash, the CAR's gonna survive. Anyone in it? that's another story...
Chunky marinara
I bet you haven't seen what the orcas have been up to this week
It definitely had some in the doors.
My buddy got one of these handed down to him and this is no lie.
You could drunk drive into a brick wall at forty-five miles an hour and the only damage would be yourself smeared all over the inside of it.
You'd end up with the steering column through your chest because crumple zones didn't exist. https://youtu.be/fPF4fBGNK0U
I think we are saying the same thing.
We are. Sorry. It's early and I misread.
It’s like 2pm!
Damn lazy hippies sleeping all day.
6am for me at time of posting. I wish I could sleep all night, let alone all day.
Dude, it's like 5:30pm. The east coast is just waking up. It's early.
East coast hippies smell the worst.
And that steering column turns out fine.
I had an old Malibu, and I was backing into an alley and a telephone pole was somehow out of my vision. I hit it full force with the rear bumper. Got out and the chrome was still perfect, and no dent in the bumper...but wow what a jolt.
You're probably really lucky that you were reversing and had the entire seat to cushion you.
The entire bench seat :)
Do the red and white courtesy lights work when you open the door? The mirror control, joystick, was cool too.
If you closed that shit hard enough the ground would shake.
Hey man I had a 1967 Plymouth Newport that had to have 454 engine just haul the car around. Fucker was tank on wheels.
Suckers to the side
I know you hate
my 98!!!
YOU GONNA GET YOURS!
This guy gets it
Looks like the door to the Cadillac sitting in my dad’s garage. Things heavy af
Cars are super fat anymore so I'll bet my VWs golfs door weighs at least as much.
For reference in 1996 I was hit in my 88 Jetta by an 83 Caprice classic stationwagon, she was going 55 I was doing 45 and hit me head on. I could open the door to my car she had to be cut out.
My parents wrote both VW in Germany and VW USA thanking them for building a good car and got a shit ton of swag
I've literally taken apart my Golf's doors a half dozen times (Various electrical issues and part replacements). Mk5 mind you not mk1/2 like your Jetta probably was, but they are shockingly light. Like 1mm thin sheet metal molded into a reinforcing shape, the latch motor is by far the heaviest thing in there.
My 2019 Golf Alltrack weighs 2800 pounds according to the States of Florida, and 3240 pounds with me in it on the scale at the drag strip.
A '94 caprice weighs about 4000 pounds and it is a BoF car.
I can assure you, little of it is from the doors. My 2007 Audi A6 allroad is 4300 pounds empty according to its birth certificate and the doors on it don't weigh much at all... Or rather they didn't till I added noise absorption mats when I replaced the door locks. Yours is newer but a Golf would likely have less built in noise insulation in the doors than an A6 and it might even have aluminium doors since it's newer. Mine are still steel, but the metal is pretty thin.