One of the many ways that the internet has failed to live up to its promise is with online car shopping. Yes, you don’t need to visit a dealership or send away for physical brochures, but online car buying guides are as much about drawing eyeballs to ads as they are about conveying information. The same goes for automaker configurators, where specs are often buried (or just nonexistent) and the graphics don’t exactly reflect the latest and greatest tech. There’s a better way, and one publication figured it out 30 years ago. In 1996, Popular Mechanics released a “Car Guide” on CD-ROM that let people browse every new car on…
This 1996 ‘Car Guide’ CD Let You Build and Price Any Car Without the Internet
