Tell me how cars have changed from 1960 to today please?

Answer 1

Brakes- Early model cars used drum brakes in the rear and disc brakes in the front, even earlier cars used drum brakes for all four wheels. Now days disc brakes are standard on all cars and most are equiped with ABS (anti-lock braking system) that stops your wheels from locking up when you hit the brakes there fore stoping the car from skidding and losing traction. Modern brakes therefore don't require much skill to use effectively and they are much safer.

Engines- in the sixties most petrol engines used carburetors to mix the air and fuel whereas modern cars use electronic fuel injection wich allows more efficent and cleaner combustion in the engine resulting in more power. In the sixties all engine blocks were made from cast iron- a very heavy substance that was prone to cracking from high tempatures/ fast temperature changes/ hard knocks etc whereas most modern engine blocks use alloys that are lighter, stronger and generaly more resiliant to the pressure that an engine exerts. old engines used a distributer whitch was a mechanicly rotated device used for creating the ignition sparks for the engine, these were tuned simply by listening to the sound of the engine and slowly turning the cap in most cases all thou professionals used timing lights whereas modern engines use electronic ignition systems that allow extremly accurate spark timing resulting in more efficent and cleaner combustion and more power. Modern engines are equiped with a electronic control unit (ECU) that receives information from an aray of sensors on the engine and adjusts fuel/air ratios to keep them stoichometric, adjusts ignition timing as required, and activates warning lights to inform the driver of faults.

Gauges- most old gauges were mechanicly driven whereas modern ones are electronic meaning that they are far more accurate

Suspension- old styles of suspension were good for little more then attaching the axles to the car, modern suspension (the variants are endless) compromises between driver comfort (smoothness of ride) and traction. One example is fully indepentent suspension which allows each wheel on the car to move up and down indepentently of the others makeing it much smoother and creating better traction whereas older vehicles had a solid rear axle and solid front meaning no one wheel could move up or down with out affecting the oposite wheel.

Aerodynamics- ever notice how older cars were box like in apearance whereas modern cars are sleek and rounded? this is improved aerodynamics that mean the vehicle will not encounter as much wind resistence at high speeds, spoilers are all so used to create down force on the rear of modern vehicles therefore creating better traction

there is much more that i will add at a later date