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Personally, I wish the headlight switch was back on the floor!!! People don't use their hands to ever dim the things because one hand is holding a cell phone, drink and the other is barely even touching the wheel while holding their fast food mess! They simply are a limb short, so maybe if the switch was back on the floor, that would be used more often when meeting those idiots?
People are too dumb to risk giving them more than two pedals on the floor. If someone manages to plow into a group of kids because they thought they were hitting the brakes imagine what they would do if they had another thing to step on.
People are too dumb to risk giving them more than two pedals on the floor. If someone manages to plow into a group of kids because they thought they were hitting the brakes imagine what they would do if they had another thing to step on.
I can see it now on the news interview, old lady doing 70 down the interstate. "I saw a car coming so I went to dim my lights and hit the brake pedal instead, causing the car behind me to rear end me and cause a 37 car pileup".
The turn signal arm has become overwhelmed with functions. Usually you have cruise, turn signal, brights, and I think sometimes even wipers all in the single arm. If one thing breaks (usually turn signal switch) you have to rpelace the whole thing at a cost of hundreds or even over $1000. That is insane for a simple turn signal switch. They were out frequently. Leave it simple and cheap to replace. They especially seem to ahve problems with tilt steering wheels. I have had several cars where the brights or the turn signal switch would only work if the streering wheel was tiled into a certain position.
I like cars simlpe and easy to figure out. It is also easier to remember. When they keep moving things around, it is hard to keep track of and when you are trying to get the brights off or turn signal on or turn ont he wipers in a hurry, you do not want to be fumbling around trying to remember where you particualr car has those things.
Personally, I think Chrome bumpers are far better looking. THe cars with plastic or rubber covered bumpers look chintsey. Two tone paint jobs look grat on some cars (Chevy Bel Air), and terrible on others. It depends on how it is done and whether the colors compliment or clash.
Some paint colors, especially from the 1970s are just awful. My parents had a car that looked excatly like a large peice of excrement. Some of the shades of green that they came out with on some cars cannot have been anyhting but a mistake. ("oops I spilled red paint into the green, or well, lets just use it anyway. I do nto want to mix up some more.").
Didn't like louvers on rear windows, although I had 'em in the '70s.
Don't like center-mounted speedometers...that seems just silly. (Look! We're different!) And along those lines, built in flower-vases on dashes...
Hated seat-belt chimes that don't go off unless buckled...if I want to drive around my own farm without a seatbelt, it should be my own business.
Miss wing windows.
Don't like what seems to be a trend towards technology for technology's sake...in some vehicles, it get's complicated to change a radio station without involving your Nav screen...
I, too, hate how tough it is to find bench seats...the last pickup I got I was looking for a plain-jane because it's a real work truck...it was hard to find a manual, 4X4 without fancy chrome wheels that I'd cry if I scratched, a bench seat not in leather and no carpeting.
Apparently, I'm a dinosaur.
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