10 muscle car-era features that need to come back

Long hoods, short decks. Muscle car or not, cars don't look right with the wheels pushed all the way to the bumpers.

Wheels with a dish. Modern wheels are depressing.

Gears.

Make cars weigh less than 3,400 lbs. Two things I realized when I was a tech: 1) there is a mind-boggling amount of wiring in modern cars. Individual components don't weigh much by themselves but when you have 400 computers in the car, it all has to be wired together somehow. Getting to that stuff is no easy task either. It never ceased to amaze me how much stuff was in my way and how far I had to go to get to some things.

2) I think it gets taken for granted now but there is also a great deal of sound deadening material and insulation. That crap was the bane of my existence when I was a tech. No customer could tolerate any noise, even moronic people who bought soft-top Jeeps.

And to the guy that said bring back carbs - no way manufactures will ever go back to carburetors. Plus, with gas generally over $3.50 you wouldn't want them to. Imagine trying to control a carb with OBD II.

Cars are marketed like a living room or an office on wheels now and driving is almost an afterthought. As a culture we continue to pony up for more and more useless crap. Maybe one day that will stop.