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Yeah I thought so too.

Love your channel!

@@Ashfielder haha man

"6000 SUX", lol. "Something with reclining leather seats, that goes really fast, and gets really shitty gas mileage."

I was going to write a similar comment. I remember the first Taurus I saw on the road, and flipping out because it looked like it came from the future.

An early product placement? They DID say that they chose them for filming because the Taurus looked so different

@@danweyant707 It wouldn't really be 'product placement' unless there was something to identify it very specifically as a Ford. Calling it a '6000 SUX' really kind of does the opposite, yeah?

@@xaenon Dad always said, "Never try to explain a joke."

Yes it's almost as if his Google fu is Asian level

I have been to the Netherlands a couple times in the early to mid-90s, and I recall quite a few American cars prowling the streets, including most of the cabs in Amsterdam being American sedans like Caprices. My parents emigrated to Chicago from England in 1968, and my dad was always into American cars growing up in England, although there are seemingly far fewer American cars in UK than in Holland.

This is one of the biggest compliments as I can get. Thank you!

Could’ve sworn he was dutch, idk

@@javathehut7285 you know it’s the same thing?

Also was used on some prototypes of the IMSA series

in the Busch grand national series, they would have used a V6 (rules back then) but not turbo.. Winston cup used V8

@@laureanosanchez5265 I had forgotten about IMSA

Buddy Ingersoll drove a twin turbo V6 Regal pro stock car in drag racing.

The Buick turbo V6 was almost always on the pole in IMSA GTP racing in the 1980's. John Paul Jr. would always lead the first part of the race until something inevitably broke. They had awful luck after qualifying, but that engine was super fast.

They all look the same indeed !

Watch this video again and pay attention when car traffic from the '70s and '80s is being shown. Notice anything?

@@no1DdC What are you referring to ?

@@palco22 Cars looking extremely similar to one another in this footage as well. This isn't new. Cars have always looked mostly the same. Most people are buying a car like they are buying an appliance and car makers are aware of this, designing these vehicles to be as bland as possible. This was the case throughout most of automotive history.

@@no1DdC Hemianopsia is a nasty thing !

My dad had a Ford Granada and my mom a pinto.😆I’m 56 and drove a spitfire.😁

@@ramongonzalez2112 did you notice hispanic people bought cars that sounded Spanish? did you ever notice this? My Spanish father bought a Granada too.

@@freedomlandcanada230 I’m sure that was an influence too. Ours had comfy red velour seats👍

I’d say it continued until 2010

I’m the other way. I went into this one thing it was the end of a cool series to discover there is going to be another one. Yay!

Eh.... Im not the biggest fan of the giant grills but the Taurus didnt pull off the no grill right for me.

Did the Same ...

I do that with every video I watch. It became a reflex at this point.

@@HeortirtheWoodwarden lotta crap on KZfaq, may I suggest MAKE.ART.NOW. watch Anamorpia then Annamorphia 2

Link isn't working, but that is the name

Fascinating! I’ve had that similar experience driving American cars too. My Saturn LS200 sedan was very economical for driving highways, but consumed a lot of gas driving on local roadways.

and in 2014 we got Fiat-Chrysler producing 105hp 875cc 2-cylinder engines lol. how the times have changed!

And my 2002 VW golf makes that same amount of HP as that Chrysler...from a 2.0 4 cylinder engine. Times have really changed.

@@damilolaakanni By the end of its production, after being reconfigured into the "Magnum 5.2" the old 318 was putting out 220 h.p. But by that time, it was only available in Jeeps and trucks.

The biggest reason for that low HP was the low low low compression those engines ran.

It blows my mind you can get so little power from a big(ish) V8. You almost have to try to accomplish that. It's kind of impressive in a way.

until.....1996 (3rd generation). They made it smaller, rounded it off even more- including the rear window. It looked ridiculous.

@@bossfan49 Ridiculous Indeed... If any other indication was needed that the malaise era didn't ended yet, that was one.

The early ones had a lot of mechanical problems.

I've only owned 2 Ford Taurus'....my first and my last. What a miserable piece of junk. You would think after building cars for 100 years, Ford could build a car that didn't leak every fluid known to Man.

@@bossfan49 absolutely right ! I was thinking of the ORIGINAL design, a timeless work.

Aaaah! The Mercury Sable! My Grandmother had one.....she had always bought for the most part some type of Ford. Sadly, that would be her last car and then my Aunts and Uncles fought over it after she passed. 😟

@ Tabubil. That "oddity" was unintentional as the Mercury Division designers were just learning the new version of AutoCAD.

@@plastiksurgeon9129 What did your grandmother pass: another car, a truck, or gas?

A thing that can look much better with current technology.

I don't think AMC recovered either tbf

The moment foreign cars could come into the US without being subjected to the same regulations as US cars was the end of the industry.

They did lmao, what makes u think they didnt?

@@royale7620 the big 3, have all but left making cars, as they can only make money from suvs, mark my words when EVs become mainstream Ford and GM are going under.

@@mistermood4164 they left because they dont sell, the market advances and changes much faster in North America compared to Europe lmao, we still value station wagons and they dont since 1996, they dont make money only from suvs and they will not go under when EVs become mainstream and they never will, look how many ppl gave up on the electric car recently, it's just a hassle more than anything else, thats just simply ur speculations fantasies, asian car makers have always been distasteful producing the ugliest and boring and most bland designs ever, it's like a car made by the robot for the robot human that only drives his Honda EV from the office and back home. Old school Ford fan 4 ever, #BodyOnFrame , #Big46V8

Maybe all the smart people started working in the IT industry, an area that the US would dominate for a few more decades

Foreign car companies did not need to reach the regulations of US auto manufactures. It had nothing to do with US manufactures being behind foreign cars.

Sweet! I messed about with Mopar engines and transmissions stuffed into Jeep CJ7s back in the '90's. First with a 318 and a cut-down A-904 AT, then I went insane and dropped a stroker 340 with an A-833 4 speed manual in the next one. "Go fast on dirt!" Even with a full roll cage and racing harnesses, I'm surprised my lead foot and I made it past the millennium...

The challenge nowadays is just to find a 1980 Regal, period. My family had a 1979, and asking people if they even remember them is like trying to ID the third girl from the left in the Robert Palmer "Simply Irresistable" video.

The one thing not mentioned about malaise is the ease to simply work on the cars back then. Crappy 70s cars could be kept on the road indefinitely by turning a wrench. People got lazy and now we have a whole generation of soy boys who can't change their own oil. Now, in their defense, modern cars are difficult to work on.

Are you this guy? Hahaha! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a9F9h6uoz9-aimw.html

@@EdsAutoReviews I have been - with mixed results! 🤣

People buy what they want to buy.

@@manthony225 yep the advertising industry takes care of that

I will surely talk about this!

@@johnsutcliffe3209 And guess what, they actually like it, buyers like their full size trucks, you know why, it has power, interior space, and none of the problem a sedan has, Americans always love big

jup… Just thought of a VW Passat B3, which is the first of these "no grill designs" I remember from my childhood. But nop, that was only two years later. In 1986 a car with curved design was a sensation.

The K-cars!😆👏

I'm curious - what is this channel's rating? You say it's underrated, but I can't find any ratings for it at all.

@@fuktiktok8611 like/dislike ratio is a rating. subscriber count isn't.

Correct you are. The Chevette platform was also used by Isuzu to make, drumroll please: The Impulse. I ask, when is the last time you saw a Chevette or a first Gen Impulse?

@@douglasb.1203 also the Gemini

kinda, but we can still feel repercusions to this day. in another note: I think that we're entering another "powerhouse on wheels" era, now guided not by big displacement engines, but by big ass turbos, and superchargers, which might be a sign automakers are feeling confident they've mastered these techniques.

@@simpleinverso8628 yeah... Big turbos and superchargers when everyone is phasing out internal combustion engines...that is a stop gap solution, a short term fix, just that.

They were garbage...biodegradable transmissions, amongst other things.

Yes. Curvy, rounder. Mercury cougar too. As a kid I hated those boxy cars of the 70s and early 80s.✌️

@ThePatUltra yeah... Right. Whatever.

Very true. Sold almost the same car from 1983 to 2016 with minimal changes. At least Mercedes TRIED to update the W463 G-Wagen with new interiors over the years!

Old design are great in some cases: Jeep XJ Cherokees would sell like hotcakes if they started making them again.

@@muznick They sure would! I'd take a bare bones version in a heartbeat! Gimme a manual and even (gasp!) crank windows!

inspired by the success of Volvo 240 series.

What's REALLY funny is that an American car is mocked for having used a design for 15 years, When Volkswagen ads in the 60s mocked US cars that kept changing every two years while Volkswagen stuck with the tried and true (1930s!!!) design. Make up your mind Europe!

I think it was more brand loyalty than viewing Chevy engines as inferior.

@@muznick regardless, GM was sued over it. Which lead GM to label engines for a time “GM Corporate-(Brand) Leader”. “Brand” being the make of car the engine was being installed

I don’t agree that the Chevy engine was better. It was a favorite amongst hot-rodders, but the engine almost all of those folks were fussing about was the Chevy 305, which was an economy-engine. I preferred the Pontiac and Olds V-8’s over the 305 Chevy (I worked on the things). Of course, GM then started mixing and matching in almost their entire lineup.

@@sking2173 the brilliance of the SBC is its cheaper to work on and has an entire industry of aftermarket support standing behind it. Im a big fan of the 305. Yea, it was their go-to econo box engine, buy it was a nearly square design that still responded well to modification even if the smaller cylinders precluded it from getting the most from large valve heads. I’ll argue that the real gutless wonder was the 307. It used a 283 block and 327 crank, which are two great engines in and of themselves. But together they didn’t accomplish anything, even with better heads and cam installed.

@@redram5150 - Though what you say is arguably true, for the consumer that would simply drive his car, the Chevy wasn’t the most durable engine. From my experience, the best of the sedan-grade V-8’s from GM in the 70’s was the Oldsmobile, and a Cutlass owner that unexpectedly found a Chevy V-8 hiding under their hood had a reason to be angry. As for that 305, there were two iterations of that engine. The first, from the late 70’s, was strictly an economy engine, and then when GM decided the 305 would take on a more performance-oriented guise, it was upgraded. I had two of those late 70’s 305’s, and they performed well. One did wipe a cam at about 100k miles, but was otherwise dependable. Neither of them had any power. If I had wanted to make SB power back then, I would have junked the 305 and dropped a fresh 350 or 400 under the hood. Same thing with the big block. If you need to scrape your 402, nobody with any sense puts another 402 in it. For the same weight, you can have a much more capable 454 !!

Actually, the 350 TPI maxed out at 220hp in the IROCZ and about 230hp in the Vette. They gained 5-10hp for 87. I had an 87 GN and could easily womp all those cars and the mustangs back then.

@@3canctheayr my uncle modified it brian..he raced here at Tucson Raceway Park he & his pit guys ..raised my 220hp to 350hp..it's amazing what can be done with Techs that know what they're doing 👍

@@3canctheayr did you read that my IROC was modified?. my uncle who raced & was a gearhead here at Tucson Raceway Park.. added high performance parts & machined the block ..all I can tell you is I was blessed 🙏to have him do that for me..👍P.S. GM Performance was his main sponsor 👍

@@stevedeleon8775 Suggestion; The word 'modified' might have been helpful in your first post...... ;)

Granted 5 years out of any 1k car is great

Edsel most definitely! Studebaker I have to look into...

@@EdsAutoReviews thanks for considering this comment

Happy birthday!

@@makwa Aw thank you :)

Putting on these stripes and spoilers! That'll make it go faster fer shurr!

Welcome to the Club.

But Ed is NOT a failed KZfaqr! This channel is growing, and it seems to have very loyal fans. And I'm one of them!

Jack.

Yeah that was really when the "old way" of running a car company died for good.

@@colindragan9352 Because the “new” GM is so much better?

@@DS-wo8wr not better, it just operates differently. Most notably drastically reducing the number of divisions and basically abandoning making sedans

@@DS-wo8wr Right. They're just truck companies now. Their crossovers get mediocre reviews. Lord help them if people stop buying trucks. And the larger foreign manufacturers are not going all in on electrics. What do they know that we don't know?

id say 83 but soviet gopnik is right about how car companies are run changed after 2009

Right before their disastrous merger with Daimler/Mercedes in 1998 or so, Chrysler was the most cash-rich automaker in the world

@@chrisfreemesser5707 Mercedes legit scammed and robbed them lol.

@@royale7620 They're also the reason you can't import cars younger than 25 in America