40 years from 1968 is 2008.
I will put any mass market engine from the early 2000s timeframe against any mass market engine from 1967 and say yes, it is more reliable and technologically improved.
Was the immediate change positive? No. The 70s, leading into the 80s were a terrible time for both performance and reliabily. Toward the end of the 80s and into the 90s things changed and improved rapidly as electronics improved and manufacturers moved away from carbs to fuel injection.
Edit: I suspect that we have fundamentally incompatible views on what counts as an "improvement" and that is ok. I will take your suggestion to use R44 plugs in the 58.
Edit 2: We are in a similar place now where mid 20-teens laws have put a significant burden on manufacturers and the complexity is going through the roof and reliability is in the garbage. I will be interested to see how that plays out over the next 20 years. Maybe nothing made after 2010 will be worth a darn. Maybe more breakthroughs will come and the 2040s vehicles will be head and shoulders above the early 2000s.
Last edited by Fibonachu; 11/30/2023 11:20 PM.
