Best years for cars?

[turbonutter69]

Which do you think has been the best 10 years for cars?
Me personally would have to pick 2 here an it would be the 80's and 90's but what do you peeps think? Which was your best decade for car production?

 

[herb]

Which do you think has been the best 10 years for cars?
Me personally would have to pick 2 here an it would be the 80's and 90's but what do you peeps think? Which was your best decade for car production?

for me personally i would have to pick 5 an it would be the 60's, 70's, 80's ,90's and the 00's
well if you get to pick 2 why cant i pick 5

 

[turbonutter69]

for me personally i would have to pick 5 an it would be the 60's, 70's, 80's ,90's and the 00's
well if you get to pick 2 why cant i pick 5

lol Thats cheating...

 

[stamford]

It is without doubt the 80's, just about every car manufacturer was racing and rallying. The 80's brought us competitive 4wd, the Quattro set the benchmark for all! Group B Supercars, Metro 6R4, Delta S4, Pug T16. Turbocharged, Supercharged, space frames and then everyone bought the nearest thing and tried to emulate them.

RS500 Cosworth Sierra, BMW E30 M3, the VW GTi, I can go on and on!

All of these cars spawned fast road cars and derivatives of.

The 70's gave us style, rust and Yom Kippur!

 

[turbonutter69]

It is without doubt the 80's, just about every car manufacturer was racing and rallying. The 80's brought us competitive 4wd, the Quattro set the benchmark for all! Group B Supercars, Metro 6R4, Delta S4, Pug T16. Turbocharged, Supercharged, space frames and then everyone bought the nearest thing and tried to emulate them.

RS500 Cosworth Sierra, BMW E30 M3, the VW GTi, I can go on and on!

All of these cars spawned fast road cars and derivatives of.

The 70's gave us style, rust and Yom Kippur!

Thats exactly why 1 of my choices was the 80's. Was a great decade for cars and motorsport.....

 

[herb]

The 70's gave us style, rust and Yom Kippur!

and the vw gti not the 80's :bigsmile:

 

[stamford]

and the vw gti not the 80's :bigsmile:

Indeed, I stand corrected it was mid 70's.

 

[herb]

Indeed, I stand corrected it was mid 70's.

no problem mate even the intellects make a slip up once in a while

 

[stamford]

Just testing!

 

[herb]

well i've been thinking about this for a while now and even though i like cars from every decade i will go for the 90's the e30m3 was still in production (my favorite bmw of all time , the mk2 rally the best golf ever made imo, the best merc ever made the 190 cosworth imo, the escort cosworth, and we started to receive the jap imports pulsars etc ,etc

 

[turbonutter69]

well i've been thinking about this for a while now and even though i like cars from every decade i will go for the 90's the e30m3 was still in production (my favorite bmw of all time , the mk2 rally the best golf ever made imo, the best merc ever made the 190 cosworth imo, the escort cosworth, and we started to receive the jap imports skylines, pulsars etc ,etc

Thats the reason i'm stuck between the 80's and the 90's.....

 

[herb]

Thats the reason i'm stuck between the 80's and the 90's.....

well to make it easy just pick 85 to 95 its still a decade and you cover alot of great cars

 

[turbonutter69]

well to make it easy just pick 85 to 95 its still a decade and you cover alot of great cars

lol good idea....

 

[prevtec]

mine would be the 90s, vtecs were invented lol
i think the 80s was a competitive era
the 90s was more of a styling and saftey era
the 00 are crap

but my favourite car of the 90s has to be the mercedes cosworth, i havent 1 car from the 80s i like, and its the reason im saying 90s
i would love to get my hands on 1 of them, then get in and drive, then #!#!#!#! my pants lol

 

[prevtec]

well to make it easy just pick 85 to 95 its still a decade and you cover alot of great cars

will you ever leave him alone, every post i go to, your disagreeing or been sarcastic to him lol your lucky i know you

 

[herb]

will you ever leave him alone, every post i go to, your disagreeing or been sarcastic to him lol your lucky i know you

well its good to be able to have the banter on some forums i have used people really cant take a joke
this is another reason i like this site i havent come across a member yet who doesnt like to have a laugh :bigsmile:

 

[turbonutter69]

will you ever leave him alone, every post i go to, your disagreeing or been sarcastic to him lol your lucky i know you

Who put you in charge of protection ? How ya doing mate?
Oh yeah i'd have the Ford sierra Rs 500 over the merc anyday....

 

[pgarner]

mine would be the 90s, vtecs were invented lol

i thoght vtec was introduced in the late 80's in the b series engine it wasnt until the early 90's that they really started mainstream

 

[stamford]

mine would be the 90s, vtecs were invented lol
i think the 80s was a competitive era
the 90s was more of a styling and saftey era
the 00 are crap

but my favourite car of the 90s has to be the mercedes cosworth, i havent 1 car from the 80s i like, and its the reason im saying 90s
i would love to get my hands on 1 of them, then get in and drive, then #!#!#!#! my pants lol

Sorry, my turn to put the pedantic hat on! The Merc Cosworth was launched in 83 so you do have a car you like from the 80's

My mates son has one, an early 2.3 16 valver. Also remember them racing these in the 80's, somewhere in my stash I have a Cars & Car Conversion magazine featuring this. Aren't I the sad git!

 

[old-git]

Sorry, my turn to put the pedantic hat on! The Merc Cosworth was launched in 83 so you do have a car you like from the 80's

My mates son has one, an early 2.3 16 valver. Also remember them racing these in the 80's, somewhere in my stash I have a Cars & Car Conversion magazine featuring this. Aren't I the sad git!

Welcome to our small but exclusive club

 

[turbonutter69]

Sorry, my turn to put the pedantic hat on! The Merc Cosworth was launched in 83 so you do have a car you like from the 80's

My mates son has one, an early 2.3 16 valver. Also remember them racing these in the 80's, somewhere in my stash I have a Cars & Car Conversion magazine featuring this. Aren't I the sad git!

I can remember them in touring cars.... Good cars but I prefer the Sierra Cossie.....

 

[stamford]

Welcome to our small but exclusive club

LOL, it comes so easy sometimes! A two-way street however!

 

[HDi fun]

The 2.3 16 valve Merc was an answer to BMW's 2.3 litre M3 in the mid 1980s. Sadly the BM was a LHD model only. It had a dog leg first, with 2-3 and 4-5 as straight changes. Fast, quite loud, no PAS, but possibly better than MB's 190 response.

Mass market cars have improved since that era; your average Mondeo will probably outhandle either of those 1980's offerings.

 

[turbonutter69]

The 2.3 16 valve Merc was an answer to BMW's 2.3 litre M3 in the mid 1980s. Sadly the BM was a LHD model only. It had a dog leg first, with 2-3 and 4-5 as straight changes. Fast, quite loud, no PAS, but possibly better than MB's 190 response.

Mass market cars have improved since that era; your average Mondeo will probably outhandle either of those 1980's offerings.

The good thing about cars from the 80's is that raw sense of feeling when driving 1. Especially the merc and the bmw. They make you feel so involved in driving it. I think some cars are loosing this these days over comfort....

 

[obi_waynne]

I'd have to go with the 80's. Carbs and points - this made tuning interesting. Now you just get a guy with a laptop to plug in and hey presto you have another 50bhp and lot of Torques!

Lancia ruled in the 80's IMHO and Alfa produced the awesome GTV. It's a shame that most of these cars thought rust protection was sufficiently provided by a layer of wax every few months.

 

[Twamgl3]

I think the 60s and very early 70s were good for US cars insomuch as they were big, brash and underpowered in terms of their mass, a caricature of their home nation.

60s was probably the pinnacle of our domestic manufacturers - are there any left unowned by conglomerates?

And at this time Jaguar perfected the disc brake and proved to Ferrari that handling can be more important (I would say always is more important) than power by out-braking them to victory in the Le Mans!

The 80s brought about some important technical improvements for the masses including injection systems, ECUs in place of older mechanical systems and safety devices like air bags and crumple zones.

My personal opinion is that very late 80s, to mid-90s Japanese cars were consistently the most beautiful and had a bit of guts at the same time.

So, no clear answer there then!

 

[prevtec]

Sorry, my turn to put the pedantic hat on! The Merc Cosworth was launched in 83 so you do have a car you like from the 80's

My mates son has one, an early 2.3 16 valver. Also remember them racing these in the 80's, somewhere in my stash I have a Cars & Car Conversion magazine featuring this. Aren't I the sad git!

ha ha, i know mate, when i saw 1 on telly it was a 1992, but after this chat the other night, i looked up the merc cossy and saw they were made in the 80s
i still pic the 90s as vtec was invented

when you were racing the cossys way back, what were they like??
are they what people say about them = the ultimate saloon???

 

[prevtec]

well its good to be able to have the banter on some forums i have used people really cant take a joke
this is another reason i like this site i havent come across a member yet who doesnt like to have a laugh :bigsmile:

me too, ya see if you were some other bloke on a differant site, youd be a stuck up clown and id actually get banned from abusing you

not here though, this is the best site around