They Don't Make Them Like They Used To: Difference between revisions

{{quote| '''Stephen''': They make 'em like that any more, Jon - they just do.}}

* Ford's Panther Platform (Crown Victoria, Grand Marquis, Town Car) is a major beneficiary of this sort of thinking. The basic design dates back to 1979, and the perimeter-frame, RWD V8 design wasn't much beyond the state of the art of the 1950s. They are, indeed, extremely durable cars, but also handle poorly and are rather cramped for something the size of a limo. Interestingly, the similarly-antiquated GM competitor, the Chevrolet Caprice, was discontinued in 1996 but is widely considered by police and taxi drivers to be the superior car. Indeed, they don't make them like they used to.

* In Seth's It's A Good Life If You Don't Weaken our main character has this feeling about old buildings, museum exhibits, and well...ok, everything.

* Expressed in a fairly verbose fashion in the Assessors' report into the sinking of [http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/shippingports/shipping/safety/mvderbyshire/mvderbyshiresurveysukecasses5012?page=10 MV Derbyshire] "The use of direct methods of design, utilising in particular finite element analysis, is radically reducing the redundancies which naturally occurred in the prescriptive methods of the past"

* Played with in ''[[Discworld|Soul Music]]'', when the protagonists visit a mysterious antique shop.