I drove a couple 90's shitboxes that were still gracefully deteriorating one piece at a time. New cars are made for people who buy new cars instead of the second hand market
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LMAO, f keys, when I switched I instantly fell in love.
- No more digging for keys
- No more fumbling
- Much easier to unlock with full hands
- Really easy to leave the car running and lock it from the outside
- The key can be ANYWHERE in the car e.g. gym bag
When it comes to cars, half the time I swear the complaints are just old car heads who just hate those "new fangled features". Like the need for "manual" transmissions because automatic sucks, automatic transmissions haven't sucked for a long while now. Initially it did, but it's quite refined now.
Fuck the subscriptions though, I want the "fancy electronic features" just sans subscriptions and data collection
Sorry but automatics are absolutely shit unless it's a high performance car.
I don't mind all the other "fancy" features but I could never drive an automatic.
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There isnt a single car on the market where you get the fancy features without the data collection.
New maybe, but it still needs to get that data out somehow, a little clippy clip to the internal antennas would probably do the trick lmao (as long as it's not with a subscription feature, that might need to periodically phone home)
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No keys, full of unnecessary electronic gadgets, heavier, bigger, clumsier handling, no manual transmission option, filled to the brim with spyware, subscription based features that used to just be pay once to have it, uses huge wheels and tires that are more expensive to replace, touchscreen controls for everything, full of obnoxious and intrusive driver aids....
I'm going to keep my car until it is a pile of rust. Then I'm probably riding a motorcycle everywhere unless the car market somehow de-enshitifies itself.
One good thing about EVs is that generally they're extremely low maintenance.
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My 2003 dodge ram is still kicken after 260,000 miles. If it dies on me I'm gonna crashout. New cars are impossible to maintain I stg
I'm thinking of getting a new 4×4 instead of another round of mods. Pretty much only one option these days, the Toyota LandCruiser 7-series. New engine/powertrain, but otherwise as simple as ever. Just a car that won't let you down if shit fails in the middle of no where...well, apart from the shit that failed, but that's usually repairable in a couple hours with basic tools and a spare parts or workaround.
The only other way to get that is buying an old car and keeping the money in it to keep it running well and modernised (speakers, nav, lights, etc.)
As you Americans call it, a "truck" should only be about chassis, powertrain, suspension, repairability, and practicality. If you want more than that, you can, but the base shouldn't have shit all through it already, stuff that has little to do with the whole concept of why you'd have a truck.
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