Cars & Bikes- Has My Generation Failed The Youth?

The quickest thread drift ever on here.

 

Heat that abs bumper up and apply pressure from the back and that indent should push out, there’s a few clips on YouTube on how to.

 

I agree! Anyone under 25 needs a good slap!! I got into deep shit when I was about ten for bunking off school! The reason? For sitting in a car park staring at bikes ALL day!! Moped at 16 and bike on my 17th birthday! Saying that though four of my boys race bikes and my daughter is car mad!

 

Fecking snowflakes, soft as shite these days with no vision.

 

Oh Hell No !

you can even leave the keys in , and the local pond life still don't want it .....

 

Gonna ask my daughter if she wants it modified:

 

I think it’s clear that the older generation coveting bloody micras is the problem

Personally I can’t get enough of cars and bikes, I’ll have spent more on trackdays alone this year than mortgage payments.

 

It's the electronic management that has done for car ownership. OBD2 diagnostics was meant for emissions control, it had no other purpose. Instead it has mutated into a monster that controls every aspect of driving. People are scared of opening the hood encase a warning light pops up. A Mercedes has 5 sensors for the seatbelt and VW, a squib for the seatbelt crash restraint. The car industry became greedy and has produced a nightmare that nobody wants.

 

Had one of these in the 90’s great fun

 

I had a Manta great car.

 

^^^ c’mon guys, they were shiiite!!! We thought they were ace. But they weren’t. Waaay better than anything I had at the time mind you… Until I got my Capri 2.8 Special

 

That was the car I owned in my 20s. Well, I say I owned it, but it actually kind of owned me as I seemed to be working primarily to keep it supplied with suspension parts and welding repairs to its floor and chassis on a more or less monthly basis

 

Me too, red with a stick on black roof!

 

I think the issue is a) insurance b) they don't go out like we used too, they have Playstations, Xbox's, social media, mobile phones c) Modern cars have mostly been toned down by the fun police, road safety, crumple zones, so most cars look the same, other than the usual supercars

And they biggy for me is EV's, look at the prices even most people can't afford one, so how could a kid, and where's the aspiration to driving an electric bus? Who's going to maintain/repair them, modifying them? It's all too generic.

 

Exactly, saw a 2.8 Saturday whilst stopped for a drink. Nope even they were chite too but about all we could afford.

 

2.8 Capri was boss boy racer…. But yeah, awful handling. Pulling out of T- junctions in the wet was ‘interesting’

 

Speak for yourselves. We have a 125 'gang' round our way. With loud pipes etc. They crack me up going up the hill near me. One of them is even running a 70's 125 2 stroke with L Plates.