After driving modern cars, what features could you not live without (brakes, seats)
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I was born in 1955 and the 70's were my time muscle cars galore and the time when they changed the drinking age to 18, Vietnam winding down still registered for the draft though. I had plenty of cars back then living in the Detroit area cars and parts were very cheap, wish I had my 1964 Dodge polar a now. Sure miss driving down Woodward ave. those were the days listing to classic rock on my 8 track and FM radio.
I came of age in the 70s. By that time cars were in rapid decline. Ugly bumpers, huge engines with anemic output that were a shadow of their former selfs. 70s had more lemons than any decade before or since.
Everyone gives those big 'ole bumpers crap on their aesthetics, but at least one could actually bump into stuff with them. Doing so in one of today's cars is a costly repair.
Everyone gives those big 'ole bumpers crap on their aesthetics, but at least one could actually bump into stuff with them. Doing so in one of today's cars is a costly repair.
Plus you could clamp on a trailer hitch and tow a trailer.
Those you listed are not modern inventions. I guess I should have been more specific. Talking about new features from say 2000+
In that case, nothing at all. It's all a bunch of silly crap that does nothing I really need to have done for me, and just gets in the way of doing the things I do want to do because I have to wade through endless touch-screen (!!!) menus of useless options just to find out how to turn the wipers on, while hurtling down the highway at 70 MPH.
It's just a car, for Christ's sake. How complicated does it need to be?
I came of age in the 70s. By that time cars were in rapid decline. Ugly bumpers, huge engines with anemic output that were a shadow of their former selfs. 70s had more lemons than any decade before or since.
I went from my mid teens into my mid 20s in the 70s. Bought a '73 Gran Torino station wagon in '77 with an "ugly" 5 mph front bumper on it and still have it. Felt powerful enough with its 140 horsepower 302. Had a '73 Celica with massive bumper guards and left them on because everybody else took them off. Then came our three GM Collonnades ('73 Century coupe, '75 Malibu 4 door, '75 Century Free Spirit), which were great cars aesthetically and mechanically.
One good thing about the bumpers is that a lot of them can be tucked in and shortened on the sides
I absolutely cannot live without AC. Being stuck in NY traffic on a 95 deg day on way home from work is horrible. I don't ever want to go back to those days. That being said, I really could live without all the modern tech in cars.
Features introduced after 2000? Um...none of them lol. Just more crap that can break imo.
My gf bought a 2015 chevy sonic and boy does that thing feel like a washing machine. It has an automatic 6 speed sequential transmission which has a up down button on the shifter where your thumb would sit. Shifting with that feels like someone else is pressing the clutch for you and I feel really disconnected from the power of the car. Inside the car sounds like an angry vacuum at times.
Power windows, moon roof, simple stereo set up, basically any features need to be functional and practical.
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