For over a century, the automobile has represented freedom, power, and the thrill of mechanical mastery. The connection between driver, machine, and road defined what it meant to own and love a car. But in today’s digital era, a different trend is unfolding. Cars are no longer just machines designed to take us from point A to point B. Increasingly, they resemble something else entirely: smartphones on wheels.
I don’t currently drive since I live in a city with great public transit but if i was forced to get a car it wouldn’t be made after 2006. I like buttons and don’t want to spend $400 replacing my rear view mirror because its linked to my touch screen for no damn reason
Don’t forget the transformation from a 5 buck bulb to a 1000 buck complete LED-system. Yay!
5 bucks on a bulb? When, the 1980s?
Yes, and also no. They’re still pretty cheap nowadays. As long as there’s a literal bulb and no LEDs of whichever kind
That’s still a normal price for a H7 to this day, what are you talking about?
But you will spend 1500 bucks replacing everything else on the car.
Also cars have plenty of buttons.
$1500 put into a 2003 Honda Accord is COMPLETELY different than putting that into a 2016.
And I want ALL buttons. No touch screen AT All
Yeah you will do it every six months.
Why are you lying?
I guess you have never dealt with the bullshit hassle of a 20 year old car…
Why are you living in a dream world?
I own four 20+ year old cars. Don’t talk shit about stuff you have no clue about.
Old cars are work for sure, but if you are willing to learn it’s not bad.
I have a 2007 Mustang. I’ve replaced the entire front suspension, rear differential, alternator, and paid an upholsterer to replace the convertible top. I upgraded the radio and put in a 10inch touch screen with Wireless carplay and integrated backup camera. Next up is dropping the trans to replace the clutch plate, throw-out bearing, resurface the flywheel, and replace the rear main seal on the engine while I’m down there because the flywheel is rusty and accumulates a thin layer of rust every morning that makes a grinding noise for 30 seconds until it grinds off.
It definitely doesn’t just work like a new car, but since I do the work myself it also doesn’t cost me much.
I have a todo list that will keep me busy for then next 3000 years, and that is before rebuilding the transmission on my 1999 is added to the list. (note that I assume the medical advances needed for me to live 3000 years are on someone else’s list as I have no clue…) Eventually I have to give up on something so I can do something else.
Sounds like a pretty good project car it sounds to me like that is your hobby.
I bet you have a very well provisioned toolset and a pretty sweet garage and don’t even think about the time you spend on that thing.
Time is funny
Honda Accords from that era are remarkably reliable, and can last for upwards of 250k+ miles
So you will if you pay a loan for a new car…
…more, actually.