Pushrods. Chains. Naturally aspirated. Longitudinal. Analog gauges and buttons. Manual transmission. No electronics. Cables not wires. Low pressure fuel pump. Sealed beams. Manual steering. Carb tuned with a screwdriver. Engine bay you could stand in.No power steering. No ABS. No traction control. No variable valve timing. No turbos. No Cylinder deactivation. No direct injection. No transverse. No automatics. No auto stop start. No screens. No phoning home. No electrical systems that could double for a human's CNS. No complicated emissions compliance systems. Where did we go wrong? We don't have to le retvrn to 1960s cars, but how emasculated have we become that our cars today have more in common with our iPhones than the transportation they were in the past? What is so harrowing for the modern man that he must hide himself behind 5 layers of abstraction from the act of driving? Is this a symptom in the decline of manhood over the past half century? I have never felt more free than when I hacked together a rebuild for my MGB's shit ass B series engine and tooted into the sunset knowing that I myself have touched every inch of this car and am not beholden to the OE mfgr or some shop. I'm not even mechanically inclined, but it was so simple that I figured it out over a few weekends with books that were 50 years old. What gives, /o/?
>>28920256Women became the driving force of the new car market, unfortunately.>think about the safety of muh babiesAlso, agressive planned obsolescence and IOT are running absolutely rampant in modern manufacturing. Of course that was going to extend into cars. Couple that with the modern man's retardation and lack of drive to fix his own problems for himself and you get IPad shitboxes that are built to be aggressively hostile to the end user.
>>28920293Ironic, given that in Esther Villars incel bible, her little soliloquy had the woman driving the MG, being rescued by a guy in a station wagon.
>>28920293It started with women and when they got into accidents, insurance has to find a way to keep their business alive and so they lobbied governments and manufacturers
>>28920256*breaks anyway*shit was made like ass even back then.
>>28920462i wonder how much of it was just because oil wasn't as good as it is now. even semi synthetics can be just as good as full synthetics. 60s factory service manuals would specify changing thr oil every 3000 miles and the filter on every second change, but now, with the exact same engine you can go to 6000 mile intervals.
>>28920462KekDad had a little mallet in the boot of his MG that he used to get the fuel pump working each day
>>28920462Never said it was a well made car. Just that it respects me as a man as it was fully expected that I myself could work on it. I have the original owner's manual and it might as well count as an OEM workshop manual compared to the ones we get in cars now. This thread isn't so much about the literal quality of how these cars are made, more the philosophy of their designs. I'm sure as >>28920479 touched on, if this car had the benefit of modern metallurgy, tolerances and oils, it would likely last much, much longer. They take 20W50, not even Cessnas take that.
>lucas electrics
>>28920256>Where did we go wrong?to be fair the spiritual successor to the MGB exists for sale today
>>28920635Overblown problem by boomers who think electrical tape makes a good insulator.Regardless, you can fab an entirely new and superior wiring harness on your own if you have access to Digikey and are handy with a crimper. Try that on a modern stellantis product...
>>28920642Probably the only new car I’d ever buy. If they ever hybridize this or make it overweight, it is genuinely over.
