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I wish we could ban Clockwork Orange here.
Sounds horror show to me, cheloveck.
I wish we could ban Clockwork Orange here.
Sounds horror show to me, cheloveck.
:rofl: Yeah that's it. Just Keep the Orange Banned.
I saw CO back in the 80's.I wish we could ban Clockwork Orange here.
Since I rented a new car recently, because my "good" car was in the shop, I'll say I won't/don't miss all the electronic gadgets.
Every knob in this car turned, but it was all electronic. If you wanted the fan for the a/c to go up, you got a delay before the signal actually sped up the fan. The same goes for the stereo. The knobs on the steering wheel, good Heavens. I think the vehicle needed a class for new owners, just to use all the functions. Had this been a Cadillac or really high dollar car, I'd be lost. :eusa_doh:
I had to use a loaner car recently -- a 2003 Chevy Impala, the most modern car I've ever driven -- and couldn't even figure out how to adjust the seat. Have we really become so utterly flaccid and pasty-faced as a society that we're too weak even to pull up a lever and hunch the seat forward with our own strength? Do people actually *want* such nonsensical gadgetry? Or is it just foisted upon them because the Boys From Marketing know they can get away with sticking it on? Never mind, I know the answer.
Tom,
I'm disappointed in K-Mart. Its kind of like how Sears wound up. My mother use to buy everything at Sears and they had damn good products. But that ended in the '80s with the investment boondoggle. I used to like K-Mart, they had a lot of good stuff if you looked around but since they got involved with Martha and Sears, they're now headed down the same road. I remember standing in a line a while back at KM and some guy in the line on his cellphone was saying "Yeah, I'm in line at K-Mart. They have 20 registers and only one is open." The stores have become dirty and disorganized, and their products just don't seem to be as diverse as in the past although prices seem to be holding, at least to me. I used to buy a LOT of stuff at K-Mart but that changed.
I think we've lost the old guard ownership and management to a newer generation that thinks a fast buck from junk is the way to do business.
Now I like my controls on the wheel for cruise and the radio.
At high speeds it's much easier NOT to have them there, than to LOOK at the stereo and turn it up or punch buttons.
Some of the other gadgets are what I call "go outs."
Because they go out, and then the are useless.
Voice activated is probably the most shocking to me.
Acura came out with that years ago when we were looking at one.
I could just see that going out, and then you would have to work the a/c manually. Oh the humanity!
That car lost out to a Subaru because it was reliable, practical, rode nice, and would go anywhere no matter what the terrain.
Just cruise and comfy seats, nothing else. Best car I ever owned, but that eventually lost out to something larger, which is what we have now.
If only I could put more comfortable seats in the current one, I'd be happy.
Oh sure Recaro makes some nice ones, but I'd have to match the leather, which would make the seats...well more than I want to pay for a pair, that's how much.
I think the gizmos are more for impressing others than for personal use.
I have been shopping for a new truck and just bought one today. I set out to buy one with no cruise, A/C, power windows/seats/locks, or anything. The only options I wanted were red paint, auto transmission, 4x4, and a sliding back window.
I could find no such truck. The one I bought is loaded with options. I will never use any of them, really. It even has rear-defrost, in a single cab truck. I've never even seen that before. All the goodies sure impressed my friends, though. It's just as well optioned as my Cadillac, minus the leather interior.
I saw CO back in the 80's.
Of course I saw Pink Floyd's The Wall around the same time.
Both films kind of blended together for me, so I don't remember either one. [huh]
It was a weird period for me, because I do remember some of the movie Brazil.
What an odd movie that was!
Since I rented a new car recently, because my "good" car was in the shop, I'll say I won't/don't miss all the electronic gadgets.
Every knob in this car turned, but it was all electronic. If you wanted the fan for the a/c to go up, you got a delay before the signal actually sped up the fan. The same goes for the stereo. The knobs on the steering wheel, good Heavens. I think the vehicle needed a class for new owners, just to use all the functions. Had this been a Cadillac or really high dollar car, I'd be lost. :eusa_doh:
Yes, they are there to impress the friends and neighbors. I always laugh when I look at the hundreds of pages in the owner's manual for the Escalade. Yeah right, I am going to use all that. lol lol I use some of it though.
This is one of those case today that I have been lamenting for a long while---along with Tom. There is no such thing as a purely luxury car today. They have taken the sports car and given people the notion that they are luxury cars. That is the furthest thing from the truth. They have no room. The seats are like sitting on concrete benches and they ride stiff like a truck. You feel every bump in the road.
This is the reason that I reached back to 1986 to get a Cadillac because the Broughams were big, comfortable and ride like your sofa on wheels. There is no comparable "regular car" being made today unless you want a Rolls or a Bentley but they are small and cost WAYYYY too much money. :doh:
A couple of years ago my wife and I attended her Goddaughter's wedding in Chicago, and the rental company gave us a new(ish) 2011 Jeep Patriot. While we were driving at night, we noticed the headlights would dim considerably whenever I used the turn indicators, but didn't know the full extent of the "problem" until after we had followed one of her brothers to a relative's house. When we arrived he got out of his car laughing and told us, "Your car was winking at us!". The "dimming" was actually the headlight turning off on whichever side of the car was indicating a turn, i.e. the left headlight would turn off when I indicated a left turn and the right headlight would turn off when I indicated a right turn. When we returned the car I informed the attendant of this problem, and he immediately replied, "Oh no, that's a safety feature." Really? Providing the driver with less light while driving at night is a safety feature??? :twitch:I had to use a loaner car recently...
That is an awful feature!A couple of years ago my wife and I attended her Goddaughter's wedding in Chicago, and the rental company gave us a new(ish) 2011 Jeep Patriot. While we were driving at night, we noticed the headlights would dim considerably whenever I used the turn indicators, but didn't know the full extent of the "problem" until after we had followed one of her brothers to a relative's house. When we arrived he got out of his car laughing and told us, "Your car was winking at us!". The "dimming" was actually the headlight turning off on whichever side of the car was indicating a turn, i.e. the left headlight would turn off when I indicated a left turn and the right headlight would turn off when I indicated a right turn. When we returned the car I informed the attendant of this problem, and he immediately replied, "Oh no, that's a safety feature." Really? Providing the driver with less light while driving at night is a safety feature??? :twitch:
Bucket seats.
A couple of years ago my wife and I attended her Goddaughter's wedding in Chicago, and the rental company gave us a new(ish) 2011 Jeep Patriot. While we were driving at night, we noticed the headlights would dim considerably whenever I used the turn indicators, but didn't know the full extent of the "problem" until after we had followed one of her brothers to a relative's house. When we arrived he got out of his car laughing and told us, "Your car was winking at us!". The "dimming" was actually the headlight turning off on whichever side of the car was indicating a turn, i.e. the left headlight would turn off when I indicated a left turn and the right headlight would turn off when I indicated a right turn. When we returned the car I informed the attendant of this problem, and he immediately replied, "Oh no, that's a safety feature." Really? Providing the driver with less light while driving at night is a safety feature??? :twitch:
A couple of years ago my wife and I attended her Goddaughter's wedding in Chicago, and the rental company gave us a new(ish) 2011 Jeep Patriot. While we were driving at night, we noticed the headlights would dim considerably whenever I used the turn indicators, but didn't know the full extent of the "problem" until after we had followed one of her brothers to a relative's house. When we arrived he got out of his car laughing and told us, "Your car was winking at us!". The "dimming" was actually the headlight turning off on whichever side of the car was indicating a turn, i.e. the left headlight would turn off when I indicated a left turn and the right headlight would turn off when I indicated a right turn. When we returned the car I informed the attendant of this problem, and he immediately replied, "Oh no, that's a safety feature." Really? Providing the driver with less light while driving at night is a safety feature??? :twitch:
People who are always telling you that they're one-thirty-second Native American. Except on St. Patrick's Day, when they all become one-sixteenth Irish.
Does yours have a lipstick, instead of a cigarette lighter?
Hit the nail on the head, there. My '96 Fleetwood Brougham is the final year they made a body-on-frame, RWD, V8 sedan. I love that car and I haven't been in anything newer that compares.
The whole sports car being luxury cars thing needs to go away. Bring me back the big dinosaurs that roamed the boulevards of this fine nation.