Originally Posted By: burla
How much effort do you think the making of these modern oils put in with consideration to older style v8's? I'll tell ya, ZERO. All of these oils are built with a euro stink for the gov't and their agenda of fuel economy, with full cooperation to auto makers who really don't want your car lasting forever feel me?
Cars last longer than they ever have in history. If automakers are trying to make us replace our vehicles by making them not lasting, they're not doing a good job of it. My G37 is in better shape after 10 years and similar miles than the Town Car ever was, which was far ahead in reliability and build quality than either my 1984 F-150 or the 1983 LTD I had. Now, admittedly, the F-150 was treated very poorly by the previous owner, and there are outliers in existence.
However, and I'm one of those that falls victim to this thinking, too, these advances in emissions technology and the chemistry of lubricants and fuels are not counterproductive. I'm old enough to remember Chevy small blocks eating cams. I remember messing with idiotic, finnicky carbs. I remember lead "deposits" (i.e. sludgy deposits). I remember engines with huge numbers of cylinders and CID, and zilch for power, compared to today. I remember supposedly high zinc oils that didn't turn out that way when checked.
There never were any "good old days."