Trump: "We're gonna make cars the way we had it 40 or 50 years ago"

[uncle ray]

73. except that wan't the case 40-50 years ago.

sure there was "real metal" but it was stamped into some of the ugliest forms ever made, and safety was only beginning to be engineered into cars. Detroit was starting to use lighter gauge metal and more unibody construction, but they hadn't yet figured out effective corrosion prevention or how to engineer crumple zones. what wasn't steel was plastic that deteriorated in a few years. similarly, ease of repair took a nose dive in this era as automakers struggled to get emissions down, glopping on emission control devices that added a mess of vacuum hoses and wires to electronic boxes and carburetors that failed and choked power down to a fraction of what it was just a few years earlier. shade tree mechanics "fixed" faulty emissions devices by illegally ripping everything out, tanking mileage and emissions. engines would be good for 100k miles before being junk due to worn out valve seats because automakers hadn't figured out metallurgy to work with unleaded gas yet. if you didn't wear the engine out by 100k miles, faulty emissions devices would ensure it's be dead from being clogged with carbon, or nuked from an over lean fuel mixture. And we haven't even touched on build quality yet!

once again, Trump is nostalgic for the good ol days that never were.