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Originally Posted by MITCHAY
For a long time I have just been about trying to keep my car going until I get a new car. But truth be told these days I'm thinking about trying to find a well kept old car to replace my current old car without all this crap  |
Nodding...
That's exactly what I did. My TURD has a ciggie lighter and ashtray.
It has a very well setup traction control system, that can be disabled if you want to do a 'pedal / foot brake dance', but it's that well calibrated, it's better left on.
And that's it (
ABS of course) as far as driver aids go. And I love it. Lets me do what I like to do.
Drive.
As I have said in another thread, I put mine in the Toyota shop for some work, had a current Camry 4cyl ev thing for a loaner, and man, what a POS.
The EBS nearly put my face on the dash within the 1st 5 minutes of driving it.
Was driving on a wide industrial type estate 50kmp/h straight road.
Semi trailer parked on my left up ahead.
I can pass parked semi without leaving my 'lane / side of the road etc'.
4WD coming towards me in it's own lane keeping well left.
POS camry decides I'm gunna bend it, and puts my face on the dash...
HOW da fsck is this safe? It was dry, hot and sunny. Imagine that same scenario if it was wet, and old mate in the Valiant wagon was behind me... Crunch.
Not only did that take the cake, I had my window open while the a/c was getting up to temp (or down even) and I'm buzzing along minding my own bees wax... I gets a warning chime accompanied by a message on the dash that said:
Your window is open, would you like me to close it?
Wow, I didn't realise it was open... SERIOUSLY??
Was on a narrow dirt road, wanted to do a handbrake turn. Cause if I didn't it would have meant a 3 point turn..
So slows to 30kays an hour, applies handbrake, turns steering wheel to the right expecting an old fashioned youi.. and man, I nearly ended up in a ditch, because it ABSed, beeped, whinged, and stalled the engine.. Yeah, thanks for that. NOT.
To many driver aids.
Did you know, in that same camry, when on cruise with radar assist, you don't have to drive it. It will slow down when approaching a car in front. It will speed up when it does, to the cruise speed you had set, it will EVEN come to a complete stop without any input from the driver. (IE, coming up to a red light from 110 kays an hour when the car in front slows to a stop).
Sorry, not a fan, never will be. It has taken my driving skills away from me by second guessing my intentions.
Don't get me started on the lane keeping assist thing GRRRR
/rant off.
Cheers,
One 'happy
old car owner' Mad Man