Old cars like my 1952 MG simply suck in to todays’s world of fuel efficiency, safety and pollutiion.
Love the car, love rhe style but frankly anyone buying a new 1952 MG TD Competioin in 2023 would have to be cerifiably insane. Life and expections have moved way beyong what we expected.,
Likewise, investment returns. Back in the 1950’s a 2% rteturn would have been very “speculative” but today I can easily get 5% on a CD in perfect security.
Retuning to the point, if you earned a $15,000 pension during the 1970s - 1980s and insisted on Gilt Edge investments (GM, Ford US Steel) why would you insist on a $50,000 pension today?
And while the Medical Benifits back then were amazingly generous, did anyone forsee the amazing advances but at higher cost of today?
For myself, my career since the 1970’s offered no guaranteed pension plan beyond a 401K and no Medical insurance beyond Medicare and I lived my life accordingly. .
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Botom line, instead of whining about SS benefits, the cost of college and Unioin Benifits maybe we should be looking at personal responsibility.
“Slow but steady” retirement contributioins, personally manged, focused in the future and personal oversight/managed is the key.
But your income should be significant less, so your tax liability will be significantly less. Your net savings should be better, or you’re doing something wrong. As for fees…that depends on the 401k provider you company uses. I’ve worked for larger companies who’s 401k fees were outrageous…but it was still advantageous to save using a 401k. We’re smaller company and we take care of our employees. Our 401k fee structure is among the lowest you can get.
The engineer in me likes its energy efficiency. Hydraulic power steering is backwards. Low power (idle) when the assist is most needed and high power (highway rpm) when it is least needed. I don’t mind the feel, either is acceptable.
I still have vinyl, cassette tapes and CDs but digital is so much more convenient for car use.
People argue about government all the time, and complain about taxes and fees, but if we want roads that are reasonably smooth, sewer systems that work, food that doesn’t cause disease, and air we can breathe we’ve got to pay for it somehow. I think we should all pay road taxes based on the weight of the vehicle we drive and the amount of miles we drive per year. Charging highway taxes on gasoline but not electricity makes some of us pay for all of us.
To me, earlier attempts(pre-2010s) at EPS felt like a video game steering wheel. I don’t know how much things have improved.
Read up on the 2011 Hyundai Sonata and Elantra electric steering debacle. I drove a Sonata from that generation, and it would stick, I would nudge the wheel one way, stick again, etc. Anyone behind me probably made the assumption I was drunk!
My 2022 Lexus is my first vehicle with electric power steering, and I REALLY like it. Just as electrically-powered windows are far superior in both function and reliability to the old hydraulically-powered windows, electric power steering is superior to hydraulic power steering.
What makes you think that more modern cars don’t have an aux phone jack? My vehicle has one in the front, and two for the rear seat passengers.
Why would anybody use a Hyundai/Kia as the standard for other manufactures??
Do you mean a aux cord jack to connect your phone to the car radio to play music from your phone (or other devises)??
My 09 has one that I connect (corded) my phone to so I can play music from it… But my daughters 17 automatically links via Wi-Fi and that is way more convenient… And her 17 has excellent EPS response…
I have taken both my 2000 EPS equipped Honda and my 2013 EPS Mustang to track days. The steering works as well in a parking lot a 2 mph as it does at 120 mph. Quick wheel inputs that you’d think would dull with a big electric motor feel just the same as hydraulic.
The cool part is the weight is adjustable in the Mustang. I can lighten it for a long highway trip and stiffen for performance use.
I like a lighter effort on the highway. My preference. It has 2 more modes, regular and sport each giving less assist.
And yes, there was a car that had EPS in 2000 as I posted twice. My 2000 model Honda S2000 sports car had EPS.
Yes there were other EPS cars around then. Some with assist motors connected into the column and some motorized racks. There are also electro hydraulic systems that use a motor to drive the hydraulic pump rather than the engine.
Suppliers have been working on these things since at least the 1980s.
‘Light effort’ is different than ‘maximum assist’. Plenty of cars have light steering, that doesn’t mean the car changes direction quickly with a given amount of movement, that just means it takes less force for a given amount of movement. Old Fords were famous for ‘two-finger’ steering, yet they responded pretty slowly to inputs.
The same kind of driving anyone would do on a highway. I volunteer at a car museum 45 minutes away that is mostly highway. Florida highway means 79 mph or get run over.
Heading to track events a couple hours away running 60 on 2 lanes or 79 on the highway.
When my uncle demonstrated his new '58 DeSoto for us, he had my cousin pull a thread from the cuff of his clothing, my uncle tied that thread to the steering wheel, and he then proceded to “steer” the car with that thread while driving at high speed on the NJ Turnpike. I was too young at the time to realize just how dangerous that stunt was.
That’s because cars in those days averaged a thousand turns lock-to-lock! The Titanic herself could react to helm inputs more readily.
Combine that same numb overboost with 2 to 3 turns lock-to-lock, along with 20 inch wheels wrapped in low-pro rubber wide enough for NHRA, and you’ve got a hypersensitive, twitchy modern automobile from 2015 or later.
No thanks! I’d rather use my God-given own muscles to turn the steering wheel.
Go ahead… Call me ‘stuck in the past’! It’s a badge I wear with honor and distinction.
If your driver has a pump driven power steering vs EPS, then you are still using assist and not your God-give own muscles… That would be called manual steering…
