I know exactly what your saying and I don't want to seem disagreeable, but to all of our misfortune and perhaps even to our greater detriment it seems in the age we're all now forced to live, that all quality is sacrificed upon the alter of greed and lack of service. In this cheaply mass produced, throwaway, plastic, recopied, non-original, cultureless, repackaged society - most sadly we find as we drive down the highways we can all quit plainly see the evidences of this retched truth in the regurgitated architecture of Wal-Mart and McDonald clones miring the scenery and indigenous landscape. In this so called advancement of the species peoples and dialects are absorbed into a new class of automatons to be programed to be connoisseurs of crap and the mundane. A good analogy would be a comparison between CGI and vintage animation, whereas the illustrators were able to imbue their personalities into the characters they created, whereas today's CGI is soulless,lifeless and flat and totally none responsive to any emotional need. Another point of fact is that you don't seem to see many people collecting cars from the 1980's, or much of anything else, and I can only answer that companies and their stock holders love money more than quality and the consumer, and we're all paying for it over, and over, and over again. Something sinister and quit dramatic happened in the 70's and it remains still to this very day. I know I'm taking a bit of a shotgun approach to it, but there are some exceptions, not many, but some.