>>13755281Most newer unibody cars have far stiffer chassis than their unibody predecessors. Chassis rigidity has especially skyrocketed the past decade with more experience with CAD and better tooling to actually build what they design.
Suspensions have gotten a lot better at being just as grippy while being more comfortable and forgiving.
Modern steering is just plain better, with more feedback when done right.
The FD was made from far lower grade steel than used today, and doesn't use any aluminum. It's damn thick steel body panels, too.
Its ECU was dog shit.
The vacuum lines was one of the worst things ever.
Many different cooling issues.
The RX8 for example has *double* the torsional rigidity of the FD, and for its time I think was the highest, even though the FDs was good. Though lots of cars have surpassed it in those 13 years.
I don't really get how people think that cars just get worse and worse somehow and that we somehow reach the pinnacle of engineering and mass production in the early 90s.
Yeah, safety regulations and emissions get tougher and add weight, and some cars are too soft and forgiving, but the technology in cars and to make them is insane now and just keeps advancing by leaps and bounds.
You used to have 300hp and 0-60 in 5s in sub-supercars in the 80s and early 90s. Now you have it in a fucking Kia sedan.
And 0-60 in 5s felt fast in those cars because they usually felt while they're going to kill you. Now it's tame.
I'm sure their direction is like what the ND was. Make it better in every way.
But hopefully they'll give it the power to compete with modern contemporaries.
When Mazda wanted to make a Miata like the NA, they didn't just dig up those blueprints and copy it. That'd have been impossible. It'd just be so soft, and archiac, and it'd be heavier with what they'd have to add for more safety. They made a new chassis that's way better, AND lighter when you take off the extra safety shit.
