My least favorite is from 2000 To 2010, and my favorite is 2011 to 2021. There is nothing About specific cars, I just do not like how Most of the cars look In that Period.

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I’d say the 2010’s or so. The garbage tech from the 70’s 80’s was finally completely gone. Manufacturing quality seemed to find it’s stride with better materials, insulation and finishing even on a budget. Screens also weren’t as ubiquitous so interiors were practical and will age well. We got the GTR, some amazing GT3’s, Mustangs were better than they ever did, the LaFerrari/918/p1 trio jumpstarted an entirely new category and feel free to add cause I’m probably missing a bunch.

These were great changes from the 90’s where the tech was impressive but early CAD designs suck to work and fix. The 00’s brought terrible styling on top of that while still being low tech.

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Most favorite: Anything manufactured prior to 1985

Least favorite: nearly everything manufactured after 1985, with some exceptions

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What happened in 85?

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Nothing in particular, I just find I don’t like most '86 and newer vehicles. Design, sound, drive, etc.

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Yeah but why 85. You must have a specific model in mind or something to be this precise. And, not to be confronting or anything, but what do you like about how these cars drive?

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Easy. Least favorite 1975-1985.

Most favorite 1964-1974. Runner up 2005-2015.

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Very specific, care to elaborate why?

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Worst: Malaise era

Favorite : Muscle car era 1, muscle car era 2

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I’m a sucker for anything around 1985-1995. That sort of intermediate era where the square-bodies of the 70s were still hanging around but the under-hood technology was finally getting to be not shit. The overall market was super competitive so a bunch of manufacturers were trying zany interesting designs that led to a ton of variety, birthing such things as the rx7/miata, fiero, crx, etc…

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Toyota’s MR2 and Supra are icons of this era. Basic, reliable fuel injection and electric ignition is easy to keep running.

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god I’d kill to have an MR2. Not in any place to be buying extra projects though

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my #1 dream car is the 1st gen MR2. everything about it is just perfect (except for the typical toyotas being weak-winded).

but i’d also settle for a 3rd gen as a daily.

the 2nd gen didn’t really resonate that much with me, despite it literally being the best one.

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Difficult to generalize but when speaking about the types of cars I’m mostly into which is modern luxury sedans and trucks I’d say they peaked somewhere between 2005 and 2015 and excluding few exceptions it’s only been downhill from there. For some reason so many modern cars have absolutely hideous looking tail lights especially and don’t get me even started on with those unibrow lightbars.

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