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Well that said, I guess the only way to fight it is to buy older vehicles with relatively low mileage for their age. Why do you think I went with a 2010 Honda, 72,000mi/110,000km earlier this year? I got fed up with all the electric-this, electronic-that BS on more recent cars I've driven and owned.
Heh: reminds me of my used Porsche 996-series Turbo, an '01. First of the water-cooled, Mezger block 911s. Ran great, broke occasionally, right on the edge of being a 'Supercar' in how it behaved. AWD, so great in the snow. Six speed manual. Controls were not quite old fashioned but intuitive enough to figure out pretty quickly. Liked that car for a number of years before selling for good money to move onto something else, about the time used 911s were on the upswing due to weird market fluctuations in the more-exotic versions like the GT3 and GT3RS.
That was the last gentleman driver's car I've owned, though my Shelby GT350R is beastly enough to almost qualify. Also with a 6-speed, the Tremec version. Not too many performance cars with manuals left, and I sure do like mine.
Now we have round dials. For what reason? Just to be different ?
Because we've gone from mechanical linkages to electronic controls. Automatics/CVTs don't need a floor shifter or column shifter when all you are doing is telling a computer what you want to do.
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Because we've gone from mechanical linkages to electronic controls.
Automatics/CVTs don't need a floor shifter or column shifter
when all you are doing is telling a computer what you want to do.
Dials are a lot cheaper than mechanical linkages.
So all this transition from electro-mechanical to purely FBW(fly-by-wire) is driven by money??
All the more reason for me to keep buying increasingly older cars! I don't need some chip thinking for me.
Well that said, I guess the only way to fight it is to buy older vehicles with relatively low mileage for their age. Why do you think I went with a 2010 Honda, 72,000mi/110,000km earlier this year? I got fed up with all the electric-this, electronic-that BS on more recent cars I've driven and owned.
The more electronic gadgets a vehicle has the bigger repair bill you get. These car companies have us all in a bind!
The more electronic gadgets a vehicle has the bigger repair bill you get. These car companies have us all in a bind!
Funny, over my 35 years of car ownership I have had fewer and fewer trips to the repair shop and more and more of the trips I do have are for maintenance, not repairs.
Chrysler 300s have a shift dial instead of a shift lever, but the dial is down in the same place where the lever used to be.
They could've / should've mounted the dial on the dash so the driver wouldn't have to look down.
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Chrysler 300s have a shift dial instead of a shift lever, but the
dial is down in the same place where the lever used to be.
They could've / should've mounted the dial on the dash so the
driver wouldn't have to look down.
Overhinking. Just stick with a good ol' floor or column-mount shift lever!
I wish they'd just get rid of the shifter and make it so you have to advance through 6 different menus in the touch screen if you'd like to change the gears. In fact, I'm kind of surprised that it isn't this way already.
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