I can agree stop-start is absurd.
So you should buy a 1982 Chevy Cavalier or a 1984 Ford Tempo
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Well I think I have 5 more years until I have to buy a vehicle. Who knows what the options will be then. Thinking it will be a self driving electric.
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If they had a true self driving all weather car for $150000 or less, I would buy it.
Yeah, it is a good idea to avoid new-fangled, unproven concepts such as automatic transmissions.
1941
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EDICT #5: Stop pontificating about what you don’t like in a vehicle. It’s fine to have desires when you buy a car, but calling them edicts smacks of demanding that others accept your rules. Every one of your edicts is a reason for me to cross a car off my list.
Oh, wait a minute. My car has a one speed transmission. I still wouldn’t cross a ten speed off my list, but one speed works for me.
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Nah. Those are all “whiz bang gizmos that will break”. You need to pick up the car and run with it like Fred Flinstone.
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@Old-Days-Rick I’d still like to see pictures of your 1989 Caprice
Thanks
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Im happy you are interested im seeing it. I am somewhat afraid to post much after that thread got deleted. I had a bad week amd a very bad night last night " unrelated to anything on here!" So I have been “bed rotting” all day.
I may try to go outside tomorrow but today I have called off work and stayed in bed most of the day.
No electric starters, hand crank only.
But when will coal fired steam cars be available?
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No side windows! Only Isinglass curtains are acceptable.
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Hand cranks are dangerous. An MD. told me there was a broken wrist condition called a “chauffeur’s fracture” so named becuase it was commonly suffered by early car owner’s chauffeurs.
Charles Kettering’s starter was requested by Henry Leland, the president of Cadillac, because a friend of his died from sepsis from an injury trying to start a stalled Cadillac driven by a woman in Detroit.
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I believe thats where the term “cranky” came from, you would be in a mood after the starter crank came back at you and wrenched or broke your arm.
The electric starter is such a special thing, why do we mock it with auto start-stop systems?
These systems are problematic on certain vehicles, the Chrysler Pacifica comes to mind.
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And acetylene hadlamps?
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It’s a balloon=tired one-speed Schwinn for me…collector’s items!
Give credit to your past politicians for these features. Without the ever-increasing fuel economy requirements, manufactures would not have spent money developing auto stop/start systems for most cars, SUV’s and trucks.
With today’s fuel economy goals many vehicle manufactures have withdrawn for the passenger car (sedan) market. In order to achieve a 50-mpg goal, a large portion of cars sold need to have hybrid powertrains, and all of those these employ auto stop/start.
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That doesn’t appear to be the case. Here’s the background for the term, and it was in existence hundreds of years before automobiles based on the sources in the link.
No, give credit to SOME politicians. Honestly we are at 50mpg vehicles, its just that America is in love with big gas guzzling suvs and trucks.
This all could be avoided if they had a big fat tax on pickup trucks. Make it so people that “need” a truck can get one, but they will pay dearly for it. Something like a 10k a year tax.
That will cut fuel consumption real quick.
I venture to guess that 90 percent of pickup trucks are not actually needed. Over 50 percent of them serve no purpose except to make someone feel more manly.
Its a big joke. So now I roar around in my V8s wasting fuel. No one cares. Lets suck fuel down as quickly as we can, cause 'Murica.
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You complain about people with big vehicles and yet you won’t move to a more efficent vehicle for yourself.