car features gone away
02-11-23, 06:11 AM
#32
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(about non-boring colors):
neither you nor anyone else has interest in a yellow camry.
ha, good times!
a targa is one piece removable vs two? 
doesn't seem like a huge improvement. 
like so much tech that's a novelty.
neither you nor anyone else has interest in a yellow camry.
doesn't seem like a huge improvement.
I had an 85 200SX turbo and it had a talking voice. I thought it was the coolest thing back then and so futuristic. I even installed an alarm that talked too. It was all cool at first and then just became annoying. Glad they did away with it.
02-11-23, 06:26 AM
#33
Lexus Fanatic
I miss when cars actually had real windows, trucks were bought only for hauling/towing things, when you had good old fashioned buttons instead of the pissing contest that has become trying to place the biggest, newest screen on top of the dash, and another one that doesn't get talked about much: covered cupholders. When I'm driving, I don't want to see two big gaping holes in the middle of my car. It looks very cheap and unsightly.
I agree on the covered cupholders in high end cars...but I remember when we had cars that had NO cupholders...
Like you said, if people wanted yellow Camrys they would make yellow Camrys lol
02-11-23, 06:31 AM
#34
Lexus Champion
Tsk tsk tsk....
What Jill is possibly talking about doesn't damage your lungs.
None of my cars lack these, but BUTTONS is what I would miss the most. I don't even live where it gets truly cold but where it does I imagine it's a pretty big PITA with huge heavy duty gloves on to fiddle with a screen as opposed to nice buttons and chunky ***** you can easily use with heavy winter gear on.
What Jill is possibly talking about doesn't damage your lungs.
None of my cars lack these, but BUTTONS is what I would miss the most. I don't even live where it gets truly cold but where it does I imagine it's a pretty big PITA with huge heavy duty gloves on to fiddle with a screen as opposed to nice buttons and chunky ***** you can easily use with heavy winter gear on.
02-11-23, 06:39 AM
#35
Lexus Fanatic
It does, anything you smoke damages your lungs.
It depends on what the buttons are for. There are lots of controls that having them in the screen is fine, some controls should just be buttons though, and buttons should be BUTTONS, and not touch sensitive controls which just don't work as well.
None of my cars lack these, but BUTTONS is what I would miss the most. I don't even live where it gets truly cold but where it does I imagine it's a pretty big PITA with huge heavy duty gloves on to fiddle with a screen as opposed to nice buttons and chunky ***** you can easily use with heavy winter gear on.
02-11-23, 06:50 AM
#36
Lexus Champion
It does, anything you smoke damages your lungs.
It depends on what the buttons are for. There are lots of controls that having them in the screen is fine, some controls should just be buttons though, and buttons should be BUTTONS, and not touch sensitive controls which just don't work as well.
It depends on what the buttons are for. There are lots of controls that having them in the screen is fine, some controls should just be buttons though, and buttons should be BUTTONS, and not touch sensitive controls which just don't work as well.
This isn't medical talk though.
What needs to be a big button are auto/temp controls and volume. Seat heaters. Stereo stuff you can customize etc and I don't mind screens for that. I just know it doesn't even get cold here and I get cold, I can't imagine way up there. I haven't worn gloves since the last time it really really snowed here in 2011 lol.
02-11-23, 06:54 AM
#37
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What needs to be a big button are auto/temp controls and volume. Seat heaters. Stereo stuff you can customize etc and I don't mind screens for that. I just know it doesn't even get cold here and I get cold, I can't imagine way up there. I haven't worn gloves since the last time it really really snowed here in 2011 lol.
02-11-23, 07:01 AM
#38
Lexus Champion
Right. Up north where my inlaws live in NY state EVERYONE wears HD stuff because winters are horrendous. Virtually everyone has remote start, at least the people I know.
02-11-23, 09:35 AM
#39
Lexus Fanatic
That began to change in the early-mid-1970s, when the emissions regs and other factors forced the classic American muscle-cars off the market. Many Baby-Boomers who had previously driven these muscle-cars found a new interest in customized RWD truck-based vans....before that, vans had also been sold starkly-equipped as mostly work-vehicles. Aftermarket-Customized full-size Ford Econoline, Chevy Beauville, and Dodge Sportsman vans became the new rage...until, of course, the first car-based Chrysler minivans hit the scene in 1984.......which started a new craze for Baby Boomers who, by then, had families.
02-11-23, 09:36 AM
#40
Lexus Fanatic
I can......but it was a couple of decades before your time, essentially in the 1960s. Pickup trucks were essentially work-trucks, often with bare-metal or rubberized floors, no carpets, no-frills, and minimal driver/passenger conveniences.
That began to change in the early-mid-1970s, when the emissions regs forced the classic American muscle-cars off the market. Many Baby-Boomers who had driven these muscle-cars found a new interest in customized RWD truck-based vans....before that, vans had also been sold starkly-equipped as mostly work-vehicles. Aftermarket-Customized full-size Ford Econoline, Chevy Beauville, and Dodge Sportsman vans became the new rage...until, of course, the first car-based Chrysler minivans hit the scene in 1984.......which started a new craze for Baby Boomers who, by then, had families.
That began to change in the early-mid-1970s, when the emissions regs forced the classic American muscle-cars off the market. Many Baby-Boomers who had driven these muscle-cars found a new interest in customized RWD truck-based vans....before that, vans had also been sold starkly-equipped as mostly work-vehicles. Aftermarket-Customized full-size Ford Econoline, Chevy Beauville, and Dodge Sportsman vans became the new rage...until, of course, the first car-based Chrysler minivans hit the scene in 1984.......which started a new craze for Baby Boomers who, by then, had families.
02-11-23, 10:43 AM
#41
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https://www.autoweek.com/car-life/bu...arning-system/
02-11-23, 10:45 AM
#42
Lexus Champion
Ahhh, big one. I miss seat belt chimes that shut the eff up.. In the LS the light never turns off, in LX a chime will horrendously sound for about 30 seconds, and in the Benz there's just a seat belt like that turns on and off when you start it with the other warning lights. Hah.
02-11-23, 11:46 AM
#43
Lexus Fanatic
Ahhh, big one. I miss seat belt chimes that shut the eff up.. In the LS the light never turns off, in LX a chime will horrendously sound for about 30 seconds, and in the Benz there's just a seat belt like that turns on and off when you start it with the other warning lights. Hah.
02-11-23, 11:55 AM
#44
Ahhh, big one. I miss seat belt chimes that shut the eff up.. In the LS the light never turns off, in LX a chime will horrendously sound for about 30 seconds, and in the Benz there's just a seat belt like that turns on and off when you start it with the other warning lights. Hah.
02-11-23, 12:23 PM
#45
Lexus Fanatic
Do you guys really drive around without your seatbelts on?