Easy. Fiat is well known as builders of efficient small cars, with excellent packaging design. So much so, many Japanese auto engineers from the 50’s-80’s are on record stating they used them for design inspiration.  The level of collector ownership in Japan of these vehicles showcases it.  

What car do I want to disappear from history?  Anything my ex ever drove, preferably with her in it.

This. I’m not a fan of many things about Tesla but they ushered in a new era.

No this shouldn’t be erased from history. Our Hubris should be known. We should look at this picture every day when the water wars are raging. When the planet is a burnt out desert with no ozone layer we can think of just HOW FUCKING BIG cars needed to be to get groceries.

This is more of an overall body style than a particular model, but I guess the BMW X6 started the trend of fastback crossovers.

Bad take. Without Tesla we would still be waiting for the “big 3" to release an electric car. Before Tesla there was not a single Electric car i would ever consider driving. By showing the world that electric could be stylish, fast, and easy enough to own Tesla kicked the auto world into the next century.

Hummer H2

I would go with the 90s Explorer for basically the same reason. It was credited with kicking off the SUV crazy.

Its not the first Massive SUV, but I think that Suburbans really opened the door to todays monster SUV/Truck craze. There were other massive trucks you could buy at the time but these had AC Auto gearboxes, could be had with leather seats Etc. So it told people that now you can be the biggest thing on the road... and…

Trickle down my ass. 

Five volts is (was) simply the standard for discreet TTL devices and many early DIP ICs.  It kind of shows when you were educated or worked in the field.  I did ugh of my designing with 7000 series and 4000 series CMOS chips.   

Way too many ‘books keepers’ with a narrow criteria of what needs to done to benefit the world vs benefiting a few bank accounts.  

All the semiconductor manufactures have legacy lines. The tools are paid for. And they’re certainly not money losers.   

Depending on your product production and support life time, your “auditors” may be incredibly short-sighted. “It all depends on the application.” I worked in an industry where our customers expected 20 years-plus of product use and support.

...if your product lifecycle is already that behind the chip manufacturers, and that reliant, it seems bananas to not carry excess.

It may work logically but there could be electrical differences that have to be tested out and validated. The space shuttle went through this - it used 8086 processors in critical areas. Once those were no longer manufactured, nasa scavenged them on ebay and other places. The cost of redesigning and revalidating new…

This is all due to poor supply chain planning and a religious devotion to just in time manufacturing to appease Wall Street because excess inventory looks bad on a balance sheet.  So many industries are suffering because everyone thought it was 2008 again and it isn’t.  The bonkers thing is that older IC’s aren’t that…

My comparison is a convertible C4. They just cut off the top, and it shows. I can see the cowl flex on acceleration. The damn thing shakes all over the place.  And it’s not a used, beat up chassis at barely 40K miles.  The C5 chassis was built stiff as hell.

*sigh*

“America” is an ancient word for “land of useless and parasitic middle men”.