I agree with Quick about the "good cars"...and I'm 30 myself, and see the majority of the newer refined cars simply as *quick transportation*...they've completely engineered the soul out of the majority of cars these days.
midas: you're comparing a GTI with a '66 GTO? That GTI couldn't hold the jock of a GTO in the personality department...cars shouldn't be all about miles per gallon, or hands off reliability, or dead quiet plastic interiors...if they are, then you're not talking about a car, you're talking about transportation. Real cars are about a "feeling", a feeling that very, very few cars made within the last 25 years are gonna give you...granted, there are exceptions to every rule, and this is just a brief opinion!