So i've sit in bunch of corolla and the oldest one my dad has are manual 5 speed sedan caburated ke70 , it so slow and yet so fun when my dad shift gear the car felt wobbly like hard shift in fast bike which somehow make it very enjoyable.
It's because they're a piece of History when people weren't so busy and in a rush to get from point A to point b and look at their phone every 2 seconds
I always had a blast driving my little 2004 scion XB, "the toaster". For around town it was a lot of fun driving, and I could fit in any parking place. It was amazingly roomy on the inside, my 6'5 friend could fit with room to spare!
It was terribly slow with the 1.5L engine, but it got me where I was going.
I sold it to a young lady friend that needed a reliable car, and didn't have much money. I did a ton of preventative maintenance to it, and she still drives it and loves it.
Although it is not all that old, I loved that little clown car!
Corolla? Scion? You don't know what slow is until you drive a Subaru 360! It's fun though, like having a street-legal go-kart and you can drive it flat out without anyone noticing.
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What's flat out? 40mph?
Subaru 360 sedan will cruise around 50 mph given a long enough stretch of level ground. 60 mph is just possible but the little 2-stroke engine will be screaming its guts out and is likely to burn pistons. (I found that out the hard way when I was young and stupid - well, stupider.) There was also a 360 van with the same 360cc engine and that would top out around 40 mph.
The only car that sold in the U.S. in noticeable numbers I can think of that was even slower was the BMW Isetta which had a 1-cylinder engine. I never owned one of those but had a friend who did.
a buddy of mine had an isetta and a messerschmidt. wonder if he still has them? i'd love the messer
Modern cars so isolate the driver from the mechanics of the car, the road and the environment that one becomes "comfortably numb". Many people seem to believe that any sensation not specifically chosen and digitally adjusted are undesirable.
When cars become more self-driving, I expect luxo-barges to have your choice of bucolic country scenes or art displayed on the interior of the windows so that the passengers don't have to look at the world they are passing through.
