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so many things, the culture is totally different, there are a bunch of added regulations. Price, and "carbon emissions", and many other pragmatic factors are far more important now for the buyer than the actual driving experience. Like a lot of things, many people will say that to buy a modern car is nicer and more luxurious than cars in the past, and generally better than buying a car from the decades past, but they think that having a bunch of fancy suspension technology, and having a bunch of buttons and a touch screen on the dashboard, and fancy heating and a/c options, makes for a better experience. But really I think the cars of the past, although the one big area where they are obviously inferior to modern cars is safety, are better to drive in nearly every way. The experience is just better, there was obviously more care put in to how the car felt to drive, which they have totally thrown out the window now. Instead of focusing on how it is to actually be in and drive the car. Another important element of cars of the past, I think is that they don't make you feel as isolated as a modern car. People now want cars to be their isolation box where they can drive like a total maniac, listen to music at absurd volume, send text messages as they drive, all while totally ignoring the outside world. The prevailing modern sentiment seems to be that, instead of focusing on the positive aspects of the past, and using those to try and make progress and improve things, we need to just throw out everything from the past because it all sucks. Art, architecture, education, culture. If it's old it must suck, let's build this shit building, let's build this shit car, but it's better than those old building, and better than those old cars that everybody loves and enjoyed, because it doesn't use those stupid old traditions, instead it has fake leather seats, a touchscreen, and 5 usb ports, so it's way better.
