Maybe you want to consider changing your outlook
You’re stressing yourself out
This doesnt affect your cars in any way
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The issue is I just cannot bring myself to buy a newer vehicle. I can not buy something with 1200 dollars of fuel pumps in it that do exactly what a 15 dollar pump did 40 years ago. Its time these manufacturers, the government or whoever is responsible for all this, STOP THE MADNESS 
We have reached the point of peak automobile about 20 years ago. I cannot entertain anymore of these high pressure gasoline direct injection engines, or screen cars. That is cars with screens that go across the whole dash.
I. Cannot. Do. It.
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My car today is much better than my car from 20 years ago, so don’t expect many people to agree with you.
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No they do not, a typical $15 mechanical fuel pump ONLY produced around 7psi max, a typical in tank electric fuel pump produces around 80+psi and the high pressure mechanical fuel pump typically produces up to 5,000 psi, so they are not even in the same class in performance…
About the only time a carburetor can out perform a MPFI system is on a single plain high rise intake manifold on a high rpm engine under WOT, and it has to be dialed in as well as a racing carb that is very expensive, where as a MPFI set up can monitor and adjust A/F ratios for each cylinder giving you better throttle response and better fuel economy, and if you care about it, better emissions, not to mention more HP…
Plus carburetors tend to run rich at start up and wash the cylinder walls down removing the oil causing the rings to wear out prematurely, that is why engines last 3+ times longer between rebuilds than your typical carb’d engine…
Yes my fun car still runs a big carb on it and will stay that way, but I have to adjust it depending on ambient temps etc etc…
They are not the same!!..
Oh yeah and my 2006 Corolla, almost 20yo was a great car, but my daughters 2017 Corolla is way better in everyway, her 2002 Corolla another great car (ALL 3 Corollas) is not even in the same playing field as the 2006 was, in that 4 years the 06 was leaps and bounds better at everything…
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