Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "Number 27" channel.

  1. The '70s and early '80s had been especially bad. In the late '80s the galvanic processes started to improve considerably.
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  2. Between the 147 GTA and the M135i there are TEN YEARS. Maybe that should be pointed out. They are not cars of the same generation.
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  3. That's a second series. The first series was far nicer. BTW "barchetta" ("little boat") in Italy indicates a kind of roadster, with the top cover not existing, or completely disappearing into the bodywork (not simply covered with a soft cover when open, like in the classic British roadsters for example).
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  4. 100.000/year is not that great of a number actually. It's the bare minimum to justify a dedicated chassis for a mid/priced car. That's why none jumped on the MX/5 bandwagon. Once that there is one, there is no more space for another. The Barchetta instead, having been done on the Punto chassis, was a niche car, but still profitable. It had been discontinued only for the demise of that chassis.
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  5. The story of the "Russian steel" never made any sense, and it did upset me every time a supposedly reputable source repeated it. Not only Italy had an overproduction of steel in the '70s-'80s. AUTOMOTIVE STEELS ARE NOT CHOSEN ON THE BASE OF RUST-PROOFNESS. They are chosen for their mechanical qualities. Rust-proofing treatments prevent rust. Not some charateristic of a not-stainelss steel. So, for some mysterious-magical reason, it seemed that this "recycled Russian steel" was perfetly fine mechanically, but was "inferior" in a charateristic that none really searched for.
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  6. Sorry, but your reason for the prices to drop (a lot more high end cars manufactured starting from the '90s) doesn't make sense. First of all, it applies only to models that aren't classic already. There is no reason for the price of an Urraco, to say one, to fall for that. There are already a lot of old '60s and '70s cars that doesn't command high prices, because they are too common, or thecnically not interesting, while an Honda NSX (almost 14.000 built in the nineties, so not even that rare) command prices over 100.000 $. Second, a lot more Porsche had been built starting from the '90s, because a lot more people could afford them, and that applies to future classics too.
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  7. Thanks for the reply! :)
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