On the Subject of "cars" Dying out

"HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles" (hondasfordsvolvo) 11/30/2018 at 13:24 • Filed to: None

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as far as the lose of the low sedan goes, well. that idea didn’t exist until the 1950's and was born out of style not substance. Honestly it should be surprising that it took 70 years for it too die. before the 50s cars looked like more something we’d call an SUV now. 7-8 inches or more off the ground, lots of headroom, and no real trunk to speak of.

ow if we could just get Windows t hat big on a CUV.

random001 > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 11/30/2018 at 13:29

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Bring back white walls!

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 11/30/2018 at 13:31

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Yeah, I’ve been pointing this out to people on and off for some time. “Crossovers? You mean ‘40s cars?”

CB > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 11/30/2018 at 13:36

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Everything old is new again.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 11/30/2018 at 13:36

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excecpt your average 40s car would probably do better offroad, which makes sense as they were designed for a world that still had  more wagon trails than roads.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > CB 11/30/2018 at 13:41

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so in 50 more more years cars will actually will look like 1950s Futurism?

for kids that home school this is pretty accurate. Except the use of cursive . 

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 11/30/2018 at 13:53

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...and also light, heavy Budd steel notwithstanding, and with thin tires that tended to cut through a crust rather than spinning on top, and with low gearing and relatively large wheel diameters... and when all that failed and you got genuinely stuck, the odds of having somebody nearby with a horse was much higher.

The delay of 4WD in common currency until the late ‘30s at the earliest and (outside Jeeps and special purpose) the late ‘50s more commonly seems strange only until you think about it.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 11/30/2018 at 13:55

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yes its crazy to think that even when my dad was a teen most peoples trucks weren’ t 4x4s. 

AfromanGTO > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 11/30/2018 at 14:25

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Such great looking cars. I wish they would bring a neo deco styling to cars.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > AfromanGTO 11/30/2018 at 14:27

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Chrysler is the only company that could really do it, and they wont.

okay MAYBE Cadillac .

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > random001 11/30/2018 at 16:10

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#BRINGBACKSIDEWALLS!

gmctavish needs more space > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 11/30/2018 at 18:31

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My dad grew up in very rural northern BC on a farm and they never had a 4x4. He gets really annoyed with everyone in the city flocking to AWD because, in his words, “if I could make it up and down a long windy road in mud or snow with RWD in a pickup or a beetle, no one really needs a 4x4 unless they’re actually off road.”

He did wind up getting a 4x4, an FJ40 LandCruiser, but that was to make it actually  off road in the middle of nowhere. 

random001 > Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness 11/30/2018 at 21:24

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You’re damn right!