Down Size Your Driving

[@JustRandomThings]

Here in Pakistan, a common thing that teachers teach their driving students that Everyone other than you is not mentally stable, so the onus of your own safety lies only with you. You have to save yourself and others.

[@pcno2832]

2:50 This is good advice that is seldom heard. "pacing" a vehicle by driving next to it, or in its blind spot for a long distance is a dangerous and obnoxious habit.

[@antonioederlopezlopez7341]

Those cars look so damn cool

[@zeroeger7622]

4.08-4.09 There was a Tofas Eagle car, its priceless collective piece for collection of outo endustry in USA.

[@devanshgarg31]

These were the best car lessons I have ever had

[@silvereagle2061]

6:49 Jr was very embarrassed driving to school in mom's car. lol

[@josephgaviota]

0:38 "... You're in for a pleasant surprise" Well, if you're getting into a Chevette, you're not.

[@unconventionalideas5683]

They were pleasant enough once GM correcting the engineering faults.

[@abhijeetsagade1418]

Heartening to see such videos .. no body teaches such things in India..

[@alannorman6402]

The music is a hoot...remember it well.

[@EndlessFlameout4]

Whats the name of it

[@12101DyM]

"small cars"

[@l337pwnage]

The sub compacts then were smaller than almost anything you can get today. Kinda funny, the difference between what they now call "large" and "small" isn't much anymore. Almost all cars look basically the same nowadays, especially when compared to the 70's and 60's. Which is why everyone just buys trucks now, lol. They are working one crafting laws to take those away too, tho. Eventually they'll make it so that you need to have a CDL and be a business to own a full sized pickup.

[@unconventionalideas5683]

@@l337pwnage No they are not. But realistically, automakers are making such a pig's breakfast of building trucks nowadays that they really are not so useful as they once were.

[@l337pwnage]

@@unconventionalideas5683 Go to a Honda dealership and look at the first Civics. They were _chain drive,_ because they were so small. Find a Chevy Sprint, at least I think that is the name. Or the famous Geo Metro. Those are still wanted by people because no modern car car touch the MPG. Maybe _some_ of the hybrids, and only _maybe._ 80's Subaru's could get 44 MPG on the highway.

[@NoosaHeads]

When did this film come out?

[@silvereagle2061]

Gez, I'm back in my drivers ed class in 78

[@chargerification]

Dope memory to have

[@DL24StaS]

The bottom line ? Small cars from the '70s were just horrible. It took another 30 years of development to make them more or less acceptable in terms of interior space, comfort, safety etc. (starting with Ford Focus Mk I and the like).

[@l337pwnage]

+DL24 that's because they basically don't make sub compacts anymore. They don't exist. A Focus isn't that small at all.

[@eska9723]

Well Vw Beetle remains for this day the best selling car ever and have been produced from 38' to 02'. I can tell you it is the best small car I've ever had. Trust me, 70s' cars were great ;)

[@TinLeadHammer]

The Focus Mk1 was a great car!

[@trainzmarcel2074]

2:10 song name?

[@jlh4jc]

I heard Chevettes came standard with rear window defrosters so your hands would stay warm while pushing it up to merging speed.

[@fujifrontier]

Yugos too lol

[@unconventionalideas5683]

Chevettes had some definite engineering faults when they first came out, but in time GM fixed them.

[@josephgaviota]

DANG, more than 9 minutes of why NOT to buy a puddle jumper.

[@NoName-ik2du]

My first car was a sub-compact. Never again.

[@YayAkiba]

Twin cities nostalgia: The red MTC buses.

[@upliftingdream]

1:10 Mr.Bean time to drive

[@shawnbaraw2637]

The new chevette in the opening scenes has a bent steering wheel

[@straightpipediesel]

That's normal. It's because the steering column is angled towards the center of the car and the wheel is designed to be straight facing when centered.

[@AF117]

Library track at 2:10 ?

[@DA_BEAMERRRR]

Oh that's cool *drives a big saloon*

[@josephgaviota]

020 ... says "lower maintenance costs," and shows a Vega and Citation. Um, two cars with HIGH maintenance costs.

[@jasonhsu4711]

The narrator was referring to the maintenance costs, not the depreciation costs or the annual engine and transmission replacement. :)

[@michaelg1915]

Anyone know what kind of car that is at 0:32?

[@kennypowers7602]

Late 70s Chevy Monza?

[@tedwalker1370]

That is why small cars are not selling well.

[@specialopsdave]

This was for people during the fuel crisis, not today with our cheap fuel

[@crt3759]

I missed a subcompact doing 85 in a 35. I cant walk or speak normal now. Always quadruple check. This vid should be for everyone.

[@pcno2832]

0:40 "you are in for a pleasant surprise", just as the guy is getting into a Chevette.

[@unconventionalideas5683]

They were all right once they fixed the engineering faults.

[@markbehr88]

Lots of reasons why small cars suck!

[@OdaYMataR990]

Wlcm to 2020 😅

[@geoben1810]

And America's foray in the late 70s through the 80s in the building of small cars of which 90% were junk. When Toyota and Nissan were building better cars than we were. 🤤

[@rickdevault2535]

What's funny is that the larger cars of today get better gas mileage than the smaller cars of the 70;s

[@arjunkrishnababu2719]

Not a fair comparison. Small cars of today get better gas mileage than large cars of today. (Nevertheless I like large cars :) )

[@michaelhelgeland4588]

No.

[@StarHunter28]

My mother just bought a plug in BMW 5 series hybrid, and she is getting 212 mpg right now, and it's almost longer than my GMC lol

[@benjammin2020]

@@StarHunter28 that doesn't really count, though.

[@benjammin2020]

I mean, I have an old magazine with an ad for honda civic. With the optional 5speed manual, you could get 54 mpg.

[@silvereagle2061]

I'm very happy in my BIG truck.

[@specialopsdave]

This video was made for people during the fuel crisis, not you lmao

[@250624or]

mpls scenes

[@jonwizard3989]

Europeans have been doing this for decades... glad you took the hint!

[@unconventionalideas5683]

This was from the 1980s, when these cars were much more common in the US.

[@dustinmahan1495]

1987

[@artdecotimes2942]

1:14 this part saddens me the most. I saw a modern car (it was a tesla) that went 20 miles per hour or so, it tried this when it was cut off, turned and flipped 3 times. honestly... who owns companies today, the original talented and intelligent owners grandkids? they aren't their father, it's like a prince becoming king when he hasn't really had the years to understand the necessities of what makes an automobile. and now we are at the stage were barely any modern users look to the past for anything but a hot rod, and even fewer watch the real unbiased videos of the past such as the examplars shown straight and center here. Pitty, really disappointing what has happened and how we gave off our quality for asia to mass manufacturer for robot arms today.

[@straightpipediesel]

Ok boomer. Old cars don't flip? Ever heard of the Chevy Corvair? Would also like to point out awesome well-engineered boomer cars like the Ford Pinto.

[@celikkoseoglu]

First

[@geoben1810]

Small cars were NOT getting 30 to 50 miles to the gallon back then. And 30 years later they're still not getting that much.

[@compu85]

You sure about that? The VW rabbit shown could easily click off 45 mpg tanks if it was equipped with the diesel. Heck even the Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera could get 35 with the diesel!

[@bullock1993]

I use to have an escort zx2 that got 40+mpg if I kept my foot out of it on the highway...

[@fan1701]

And that is why I love a suburban! You don't even notice those sub compact death traps until you scrap them off the grill later. 😁

[@payman.amini1]

They are much more nimble and maneuverable than those big trucks and will avoid accidents much more easily while you are going straight to the wall.