Why were most cars from the 70s- early 80s such pieces of poo?

>>15637350
and emissions regulation
and competition from imports that forced the big three to redesign shit quick

>>15637359

This, and a lack of desire to properly retool plants to make these cars.

>and their shitty all aluminum engines

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Haters gonna hate

>>15637382
I see. Imagine if none of that stuff went into effect and car companies could make whatever they wanted
We could have
SUPER
BOAT
CARS

>>15637436

Highly doubtful.

It's very possible,however, we would be driving around in cars manufactured from defeated totalitarian dictatorships from the Second World War

also a lot of safety regulations that basically mandated that all cars looked like shit

and they were beginning to be designed by coked-up boomers, too

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Actually only American cars almost unanimously sucked, and was that because Detroit knew nothing but excess and freedom from practical boundaries for the 25 years prior to the '70s, and was too proud, stubborn and inexperienced to adapt to the new world of frugal engineering, which has been the reality for European and Japanese manufacturers all along.

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>>15637436
we could've had really advanced 900 hp beautiful steel land boats
rip

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>>15637523

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>>15637523
lel it would be complete shit because Americans always fall for size and flash over substance

>>15637523

Of course.

>And everything we drove would look like the nuclear powered cars in Fallout

>>15637542
that pic
but cars back then had better craftsmanship than today's burger cars

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>>15637555

>>15637555

>better craftsmanship

Not according to everyone's favorite "do-gooder" Ralph Nader

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>>15637555
>craftsmanship
shit's hard to define, yo - like "passion" but I agree pre-smog cars had more of it than today's cars and 80s cars had the least of it. My '83 Capri is built like a lunch box but that's the beauty of it it's a light simple lunch box that fits a good old fashioned pushrod v8. What "craftsmanship" or "passion" it may have, I'll have put there.

>>15637555

Cars back then were built and designed to the same low standards they are today, with much inferior tools, techniques and practices on the same sort of assembly line and the same kind of work pressure.

If anything, current cars have much better worksmanship.