Would comparing new cars vs old cars to paper towels Vs towels be a good comparison?

Or even plastic forks/spoons/knives vs silverware?



After new cars are designed merely as disposable pieces of plastic, similar to a plastic fork while older cars, made of steel and chrome, will easily outlive their owners with care and will still remain stylish and "in" while new car styles stay the same for about 6-10 years and gets old the second the new body style comes out. It looks like innovation and permanency are no longer factors in car production.Would comparing new cars vs old cars to paper towels Vs towels be a good comparison?
No not at all.

first of all ever since the 1940s, when car companys realized that they wern't selling cars as much as they used to. They realized that if everyone has a car already and it lasts them for 20 years + why would you get a new one. So several changes were made. The paint was re-formulated to begin to crack alowing the car to rust after only 5 years. And most importantly the design of eack model was from that point on radicaly changed each year so people would be forced to stay current.

They have been doing that for 70 years. Look at the 1949 through 1959 studebaker line.



As to style the style, yes the design of cars has become really boring lately, and as a car designer i prefer 1945 through 1978 cars to any modern models athesticly. But as a result modern cars are more aerodynamic and safer. The average mpg for all road cars and trucks in 1950 was only 5, now its 25.



chrome fades pits and fades to green and steel rusts away after a few years, while plastic even of the poorest quality found in plastic bottles can survive for buried in the ground for 700'000 years. The kind found in cars lasts for over a million years.

Dont blame plastic blame the fact that the cars bumper is realy mostly foam and air, the plastic is only 1/16 of an inch thick. At that thickness even if made of steel it would still fail if you taped a Sign post at 10 miles per hour. In 1950 through 1985 the average american made engine would fail after 100,000 miles. European non luxury engines failed at 60,000 miles. Today about 70% of all cars made are projected to live beyond 200,000 mile.s



So in effect even then cars were designed as disposable even then. And are much more durable now.