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I watched this video today. He thinks the 90s was the best. It was certainly an amazing decade. He has some great points.
It got me thinking. And thinking. I think maybe 2000s or maybe 2010s. 2000s had just the right amount of tech but the cars were still analogue feeling. 2010s things got faster but you’d still get some noise and some connection though it was the beginning of the end of an era for man and machine, varying a lot between manufacturers. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ppVDeIXJO_E |
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1957-1967!
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All decades have good examples. There is no best decade.
Ferrari, Lamborghini, Bentley and Rolls from all decades Porsche from most decades Mercedes from some decades BMW from a few decades All remaining brands have a model or two from a decade or two that are noteworthy |
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90s. The 90s was 10 years ago, right?
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I’m going to say 2010 thru today but it’s now going the wrong way with extinction of the M550 and many other great cars. Plus it’s hard to find a manual sports car, Porsche seems to be it, good for them
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I'd say you can safely say 2000-2010 was the best. Big gains in power,.performance, and features. Some real classic drivers cars that were also totally daily drivable. Plus the automakers were going wild doing cool stuff
E60 M5, E92 M3, V12 Benzes, Audi S6 with a V10, the RS4, Ram SRT10, Jeep SRT8, Trailblazer SS, all the muscle cars, Evo, STI, 350Z, RX8, Terminator Cobras, WS6 Trans Am, Corvettes, Vipers... That's not even starting on all the much more attainable sporty compact cars. Plus, all these cars prices were much better lined up with wages. I knew a pizza boy who had a brand new WRX. If you had a semi decent job (like a retail job), you could afford a cool car, and they made lots of cool stuff |
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90's - early 2000's for sure!
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Mazda Miata, Nissan Z, BMW Z4 M40i offer manual transmissions today. I didn't search any further.
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I’d say like 2006-2016. E46, E9x, F8x. 996-991, C6/C7, ND Miata, a lot of really good cars. Kinda that age where electronics were getting useful, but not enough to take away from the driving engagement.
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The first decade of the 2000s had some good cars.
M156 engined MBs and S85 engined BMWs were pretty cool, even though both of those engines have well known trouble spots. German performance SUVs were coming into their own with 955/957 Cayenne Turbo S and W163/164 AMG ML55 and ML63. The AMG R63 was an awesome family truckster, I wanted one when they were new because it fit my family's use case at the time. |
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I don't know it depends on how you define best. I feel that when I started getting into cars around the 2000s the ONLY cars that appealed to me were the German cars. American and Japanese cars just had such horrible interiors and were just soo boring that I had no interest in them at all. I'm not sure when it happened, but I feel it was around the time when the big automakers got that bail out $$ and what not... maybe a few years after that I feel that all cars started getting better and I think they have continued getting better from a design, comfort and features perspective.
Now from a strictly driving pleasure perspective I would say like 2005-20015. My favorite car the Z4MR was a 2006, my C7 which I also liked a lot was a 2014, my camaro just missed it as it was a 2016 right when the redesign came out. |
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