Automobiles: What decade would you say American cars began to decline in quality?
Weren’t American cars better in the 1950s?
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SW-User
What exactly does "better" mean to you, specifically? Is it just a matter of visual styling and nothing else? In that case, in the 1950s Italian cars were light years ahead of US cars in terms of visual aesthetic beauty.
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(1953 Maserati A6GCS/53 Berlinetta)
American cars were horrible gas hog land yachts without seat belts in the 1950s.
Apart from looking gorgeous, even Italian cars from seven decades ago had similar faults. 1950s cars are part of why the planet is going to sh-t today. Beauty is skin deep.
If anything, maybe Americans are slowly, finally learning how to make a reliable, safe and efficient car [i]now[/i].
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(1953 Maserati A6GCS/53 Berlinetta)
American cars were horrible gas hog land yachts without seat belts in the 1950s.
Apart from looking gorgeous, even Italian cars from seven decades ago had similar faults. 1950s cars are part of why the planet is going to sh-t today. Beauty is skin deep.
If anything, maybe Americans are slowly, finally learning how to make a reliable, safe and efficient car [i]now[/i].
spjennifer · 56-60, T
@SW-User That's not even a fair comparison, you can't compare hand built super cars costing up to 10 times what mass produced American cars cost at that time and only a couple of thousand of them at best were built every year so of course they were more stylish but had many problems too. A more apt comparison would be Fiat, how often do you see Fiat's from the 50's, 60's, 70's on the road these days?