These days you have to hide the catalytic converter

Fuel injection?? Your Golf got a carb unless you went for the GTI.

“Plastic bags,” somebody’s learned a difficult lesson I see.

Not all modern cars have maintenance-free batteries. My Fiata does not, so I would imagine other Mazdas don’t either.

I’m very interested in that “orthopedic seat design”. I’m getting old...

1971 ? I distinctly remember having to unscrew cell lids and check water levels on my cars in the 80's. And they were cars built in the 80's.

Zooming in and reading the article it sounds like:

I wish car interiors still looked like this

It says Peugeot 404 Cabriolet en Coupé, so it must be from a Dutch or Belgian brochure. (en means and in Dutch)

404: Peugeot not found

The first law of thermodynamics would like to have a word with you.

I’m not a science man.

Yeah, I think the parts is the biggest part of it that would get me.  I just rebuilt the engine in my Viper after a spun rod bearing and while no parts are really all that “special”, they do carry the Viper tax, like a timing set that costs $300+, lifters that are $20 each, piston rings that are $20 a piston, etc.  It…

You guys are both forgetting something.

The 70s were a dark time

^^^ This needs more stars.

That is so very sad.

Compare this to my GTI, which has a (disconnected) system to simulate louder engine noise for me, but no one outside would hear any difference.

I just can’t get enough of that shape. When I’m too old to fit in my Miata, this is the exact body and color I want. I’m curious if you actually have any real reliability problems. I just wonder if there’s actual isses, you know?