Yeah, that's true. I wonder if today's cars will be considered classics though in some 30-odd years.
Not like the cars 30 years ago man. What do kids driving cars today get excited about most? Yes an SRT 4 neon with a turbo is fast, but does it have a classic look that will last for years to come? No. To be honest, One of the reasons the older cars are so..well, classic is because of how they looked.
If cars would have kept looking great through the 70s and into the 80s, some of the cars of the 50s and 60s might not seem so memorable. Instead most, if not all of the cars of the late 70s and 80s turned ugly. How many guys out there are restoring 80s cars? Not many.
There has to be something about todays cars that will make people look back and go "Hmmmm those 2004 neons shure looked good", in order for them to be considered a classic. The only thing I can think of is, for cars of the future to be uglier then some of todays cars or much slower. This would make people 30 years from now look back and admire todays cars. Think MAD MAX, "Last of the V8s".
Lets look back abit at what made cars from the past so cool. The first thing that comes to mind is the fact that every year they changed something on each model, wether it was trim, or the grille or tail lights. Nowadays, the model of a car looks the same for 4-6 years before they change anything. Another thing about the older cars is, you had to drive them. With less stopping ablility, worse steering and handling, older cars require you to think abit more about what your doing when your driving, so when driving an older car with old suspension, you really feel like you have to master it before getting crazy fun with it.
My guess is 30 years from now we may not even hold a steering wheel, but more of a playstation like controller to steer our cars, so maybe people 30 years from now may look back and go "Hmmmmmm remember all the feedback you got from the steering wheel on those 2008 Caravans".
As far as the new challenger, I hope it does well enough so that maybe in the future, it will get its oun platform. You gotta think tough, what do you do with the looks of a car that is retro when its time to change its looks?Ten years from now, will the mustang still look like a retro 60s car? What do you do with its looks, maybe go 80s retro?
