“To go all Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance on your happy ass: is better, better? Because if getting the most technology, the strongest brakes, the best NVH, the lowest coefficient of drag, and the best fit & finish is better, then yeah, cars are still getting better. (Tesla has been put in Time Out for the purposes of this exercise)
But if better is a weird shape, a nonsensical form factor, a fun color, a sticky shifter that clicks sublimely into 4th gear the 20% of the time it’s cooperative, and a headlight design that kinda makes you smile when you look at it from across the parking lot, then no. We’ve gotten so, so much worse. We lost the nonsensical parts of cardom that make cars so endearing — the Torchinsky factor, if you will.”
— Dan’s Dance Revolution, Jalopnik (2021)
RE:SOURCES
- Dan’s Dance Revolution; 2021. Commentator in “Are Cars Still Getting Better?” Jalopnik. Posted 9:40 a.m., June 23.
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