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Originally Posted by jd10013
it took a little more than 4. I don't think the last parts of it were complete till the 80's. anyway, your right. kids now a days will never know how great things were. I'm only 41, but a lot has changed in those 40 yrs. things like the interstate highways, golden gate bridge, hoover dam...............they wouldn't even be possible now.
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VERY possible to design and build in the modern era. The red tape slows it down a bit, but it's not impossible. Not by a long shot. Remember that 2014 Hennessy Corvette that just did 200mph? Of course you do. It was on a newly-build road, with sensors and cameras that captured a license plate traveling at 200mph.
I think the cars are of the highest quality now, and they will always improve. Manufacturers have the best scientists, engineers and designers available to develop the cars, components AND the equipment to build them. We're readily building vehicles with materials that were once too expensive to purchase, let alone manipulate into a car. Shit, who would have thought we would see the day where our cars came with free-flowing exhausts that DON'T RUST (they do, to an extent, but anyway)? We have the capability to take a factory car and put more than 500hp to the wheels without having to touch the inside of the motor, the trans or the rear. Touch screens, satellite radios and 400+ hp engines with gas mileage >20mpg. Composites. Just...composites, everybody.