I've been watching many of your videos since I found you on YouTube. Many time you say "modern cars". What is the cut off there? I have 1998 F150, is that considered modern when you refer to it in your videos?
Thanks & keep up the great vids.
Basically everything OBDII, post-1996 he considers a "modern" car. Your '98 F-150 has the same electronic diagnostic port as my 2017 Mustang, only my Mustang will have a ton more data to process. A Windows 95 PC isn't modern based on age, for example, but the interface is roughly the same as Windows 10, if that analogy makes sense.
"Old" cars are everything with a carburetor or very early fuel injection, everything up to the late 80s-early 90s cars with minimal computer interfacing, etc.
It depends on the context of the discussion.
- If you're talking about diagnostics, then 1996 is a major milestone as Justin says.
- If you're talking about engine fuel systems, then fuel injection was phased in around the 1980's
- Variable valve timing: turn of the millenium
- The most modern engine technologies like cylinder deactivation and direct-injection are early 2000's
- Cooling systems and thermostats were also redesigned around that time for quicker warm up.
- You could also be talking about the general decline in quality of domestic vehicles, after the 2008 financial crisis and shrinkage of the automotive industry.
Technology is constantly evolving to meet stricter economy and emissions regulations. It's better to be specific when asking about "modern" features. Generally speaking, for me personally, a "modern" car was made in this millenium.
Big tent modern, I’d say anything with an OBDII, like mentioned above would be modern.
In many ways cars haven’t changed much in the last 20 years. Sure there is added technology features, but the guts of the car have remained the same, IMHO.
meh. OBD changes were mostly invisible for the vast majority of owners.
I concur with you, OBDII was invisible to most owners. Thanks think many evolutions to the engine are invisible to most owners as well.
It’s not the OBDII itself, rather, it is the delineation point between a modern cars, IMHO.
Where would you draw the line for a modern car.
engine evolutions manifest as jumps in power and efficiency
Where would you say is the last 3 jumps in power and efficiency?
take your pick .. name any of the latest stupid engineering inventions that we complain about here all the time ...
cylinder deactivation , idle stop, direct injection, valve phasing, low tension piston rings, plastic intakes, etc...
I won't even get into transmissions , electric accessories and flex fuel
if you asked me which changes were most significant and successful, then I would say #1 fuel injection, #2 distributor-less coil-on-plug ignition, #3 Computers and a close 4th could be VVT which is more-or-less ironed out now and maybe EGR but I don't have numbers.