yestertech
English edit
Etymology edit
Short for yesterday's technology.
Noun edit
yestertech (uncountable)
- (informal) Retro-style automotive technology; modern cars, motorbikes, etc. designed to appear old-fashioned.
- 1989 June, Popular Mechanics, volume 166, number 6, page 60:
- Honda's tribute to yestertech is the GB500, a British-style nostalgia trip, right down to clubman handlebars, and air-cooled 500-cc Single.
- 2000, Stephen Brown, Anthony Patterson, Imagining marketing: art, aesthetics, and the avant-garde, page 141:
- Most major manufacturers have announced variations on the 'yestertech' theme. Examples include the Chrysler PT Cruiser, a pastiche of the upright sedans of the 1940s […]