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Originally Posted by Moppie
The problem is at some point in the 80s the big American companies stopped developing anything and just keep turning out the same basic dated design with some really bad styling thrown on top.
Leaf springs, live axles, and yes, really bad build quality dominated so many American designs of the last 30 years.
There have been exceptions, there are always exceptions, cars the Corvette for example.
But, look at the average American car and compared with it a contemporary from Japan, Europe or North Korea?
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The basic '80s American car hasn't been around for 30 years. We haven't built cars like that SINCE the '80s and early '90s, when Australia was still building the same damn cars. Leaf springs? ONLY in the Corvette, and then they are composite, monoleaf, transverse units that have as much in common with the leaf springs YOU are thinking of as a 747 has in common with the Wright Flyer.