Give me a 90s shitbox with modern safety features and sure, bluetooth for music and podcasts, and I am set. In fact at this point I would pay extra for that because it doesn't exist and I want it more than the shit that's out there.
Shit i dont even want the safety features. Lane departure warning? Automatic braking? Lane collision alert? Bunch of hippity hoppity bullshit theyve added to make vehicles more complicated and expensive.
Also, if you ever get brake checked and hit them you were following too close. Drive better. Better yet, get a car that brakes for you when your poor driving skills would otherwise cause you to hit someone.
I have a 2023 car that does not have lane departure warning, automatic braking, lane collision alert, or any other safety features other than blind spot lights in the rearview mirrors and a high speed warning that you can set yourself (or turn it off entirely).
My car does.not.give.a.fuck if you want to yeet yourself into an overpass wall or abruptly whip the vehicle directly into the lane next to you which just happens to be currently occupied with another vehicle.
I get into a rental and I feel like I've been put in the vehicular version of training wheels. Changing lanes? Seat buzzes. Slow down too slowly? Car slams on the brakes. Cross over the line on an empty road because you don't wanna run over the dead skunk? Dingdingding and you have to fight the fucking steering wheel.
Like holy shit can I JUST DRIVE THE CAR?
edit: Obviously it does have things like seatbelts, all the airbags, backup camera, and so forth. I just don't have anything on my car that actively fights me for control with the vehicle or nags me if I'm doing something it doesn't like.
Seriously sometimes for work I gotta drive a 2024 Ford F-150 and the backup camera beeps to hell and back anytime I need to run over tall grass to turn around. Like this is a truck you should be able to run over grass and small sagebrush without the thing flipping it’s lid
Early Tesla Model S are still seeing updates. Not at the rate the newer vehicles do, but they are not "unsupported". My first gen Model 3 received three new updates so far this year with new features, all for free.
Thats not what planned obsolecence is. The software doesn't need to be supported forever. Its not a smartphone that will reach end of life someday and be unable to download new apps.
These cars can just use whatever the final version # of their software is for 20 years until the mechanical parts of the car finally break down
Funny thing, I was actually thinking of getting a corolla and even used they are stupidly priced for the miles on them anymore. Like come on guys, if it's $18k with 100k miles on it why would I not just buy brand new for $7k more?
That looks like it's headed in the right direction. Not really interested in a bulky SUV or truck though. I want something like what the Volvo 240 used to be.
If that ever comes to market, I suspect it won't sell very much because the majority of people do not want a bare-bones vehicle. This is one of those times reddit really doesn't reflect reality.
1) the effort/cost of keeping a car that old from running well
2) the difficulty of even locating one in good shape for a good price
3) that safety stuff I mentioned. My wife has a newer car and t-boned someone at 50 mph when they ran a red light. The hood didn't compress even as far as the radiator. Air bags did not deploy. We were able to drive the car home and later to a collision place to be repaired.The the other car (a late 80s Toyota) was nearly torn in half. I am not going to get that level of safety in a 90s vehicle and people drive like idiots so I will take safety and hating the interior over gambling with the lives of anyone in the car.
Theres so many options now for an android head units that will give you car play and you can add a backup camera and pretty much most of the functionality of new car.
2005 Impala with under 90,000 miles here. I love this car, and will drive it until it won't pass inspection. It's no beauty, by any means, but we are tuned in together. Not the greatest gas mileage, and the electronic options aren't accurate (says I've used 6 gallons of gas when it's really more like 9). But she's mine.
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u/EternalNewCarSmell 9h ago
fr this is a fucking appliance
Give me a 90s shitbox with modern safety features and sure, bluetooth for music and podcasts, and I am set. In fact at this point I would pay extra for that because it doesn't exist and I want it more than the shit that's out there.