Which of Today's Cars Will Become Classics?
We are all conditioned to look back to the bygone ages of car production and say of one of them “that was the Golden Age”, “they don’t make them like that anymore” or any one of a number of hoary old cliches which, nevertheless, often ring true to some degree or other. For certain, they do not make cars today like they used to make them. That is simply innovation for you. To make cars like they used to make them would mean a lot of unnecessary expense if it was to involve mass production, so what we have today is exactly what is needed if the car industry is to survive.
Indeed, the recent bailouts of car industries on both sides of the Atlantic have made one thing clearer than ever. The life of a car manufacturer can be quite fleeting if they concentrate more on the car’s lines than the bottom line. Car manufacturers will go bust if things continue the way they have been going. Although there is nothing at all desirable about people losing their jobs, this does have a side benefit, if you look at it in a slightly twisted manner. That is to say that a car which looks excellent today and is made by a company experiencing financial trouble might just be among the last of its kind to be produced – and qualify in later years for the title of “lost classic”. Read more
