AZjeff
$50 Site Donor 2023
Says the guy with an 01 Grand Marq and 00 Jeep XJ!Luckily for me, I'm a base model kinda guy. Remove everything but bluetooth and AC and I'm happy!
Of course our 02 Jeep and 02 Xterra don't have Bluetooth either...
Says the guy with an 01 Grand Marq and 00 Jeep XJ!Luckily for me, I'm a base model kinda guy. Remove everything but bluetooth and AC and I'm happy!
Says the guy with an 01 Grand Marq and 00 Jeep XJ!
Of course our 02 Jeep and 02 Xterra don't have Bluetooth either...
Supposedly the Dodge Rampage is greenlit for the usa as it was caught testing in numerous locations. Who knows how much it will cost on the low end.Car companies add features to pump up their profit in both margin and realized profit. And we keep buying them.
The last new pickup I bought was a '93 Toyota 4wd 22RE with just a little better interior than the plastic seat strippie. Loved that truck!
I am not holding my breath for a strippie pickup.
TPMS isn't really a safety precaution. It just makes the public lazier than if they kept up with checking the air pressure in their tires. This is a FAR cry from your over exaggerated statement about air bags, crumple zones which are completely different. Don't muddle the waters with odd interjections that don't actually have any effect on Safety.Shame on them. If not for Federally mandated safety features we wouldn't have energy absorbing bumpers, collapsible steering columns, air bags, softer dash boards, safety glass, crumple zones, ABS, and back up cameras and as you mentioned-TPMS.
Yeah-we would be driving death boxes-when in realty vehicles are safer than they ever have been.
Of course-the drivers on this FORUM are so skilled (despite average age on here) many are not needed in their humble opinion.
TPMS isn't really a safety precaution. It just makes the public lazier than if they kept up with checking the air pressure in their tires. This is a FAR cry from your over exaggerated statement about air bags, crumple zones which are completely different. Don't muddle the waters with odd interjections that don't actually have any effect on Safety.
True. My 2008 had no rad drain plug but still had the undrilled plastic boss. You get to have a hot shower when you pull the lower rad hose off. Same goes for my son’s 2010 Silverado.The difference in quality of nearly everything between my 2000 and 2004 GM pickups was quite apparent. GM already knew that they were spiraling towards their 2009 bankruptcy... so they started cheapening everything that they could, while keeping the price up.
The 2004 was "missing" components that the 2000 had.... save $10 here... save $20 there. Radiator petcock, transmission drain plug, cabin air filter, fuel filter... All things that they had quietly removed for no other reason than to save $$$.
You couldn't carry on a conversation with some one sitting in the rear of a Vanogon. The noise was loud. 80's Hondas-were penalty boxes compared to Honda of today.I wonder how many of those who espouse the virtues of simplicity would really be willing to go back to something with the features of a mid eighties car, especially at 2024 prices.
It's not just the extra features driving retail pricing, it's also that every part and material now costs more as does labor to make those parts and materials and then fabricate and assemble them into a completed vehicle, which must also comply with an array of federal safety and emissions standards not in effect in the mid eighties.
We owned simple machines back in the day, including a couple of 1986 Civic Wagons, an '81 Vanagon and a pari of W123s. Wind up windows on all and no real tech of any sort.
We liked them all at the time but I'm not sure I'd want one as a daily driver today.
Shame on them. If not for Federally mandated safety features we wouldn't have energy absorbing bumpers, collapsible steering columns, air bags, softer dash boards, safety glass, crumple zones, ABS, and back up cameras and as you mentioned-TPMS.
Yeah-we would be driving death boxes-when in realty vehicles are safer than they ever have been.
Of course-the drivers on this FORUM are so skilled (despite average age on here) many are not needed in their humble opinion.
They certainly mandated safer cars. The rest isn't pertinent to the conversation. I get it-you don't like the government.You think big govt in the former Union of yada yada yada States “ mandated and made “ better or safer “ cars ? ?
Hahahaha…
Or built “ better and safer “ nuclear reactors and facilities ? ?
Ahh yeah… That very large State run nation built terribly unsafe reactors and pretty ZERO containment for them IF they had any trouble…
Chernobyl ring a bell ?
They didn’t…
You believe that former Union of yada yada States made better military equipment than ours ?
They didn’t do that EITHER…
Because of this NATION’S private sector abilities were able to be truly unleashed we got way, way, way ahead of them.
Therefore leading to their state mandated made garbage military aircraft and tanks got blown to bits in a little area the size of New Jersey a number of times…
They certainly mandated safer cars. The rest isn't pertinent to the conversation. I get it-you don't like the government.
TPMS saved me from getting on the highway and doing 70mph with 17psi and a big ol’ self tapper lodged into my tire.TPMS isn't really a safety precaution. It just makes the public lazier than if they kept up with checking the air pressure in their tires. This is a FAR cry from your over exaggerated statement about air bags, crumple zones which are completely different. Don't muddle the waters with odd interjections that don't actually have any effect on Safety.