Modern cars are so angry.

Trevor Morley's Tache

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I'm currently (not actually right now) driving a brand new Mitsubishi L200 Warrior Twin-cab (hire car for work).

It's an auto, 5-speed box, which is a bit cack to start with, but the thing is so angry if you don't start it or stop it in exactly the right order.

It's got about three different tones of beep, and the alarm system is also f*cking mental. The bastard thing went off as I was driving it on Tuesday.
 
There is a certain pleasure in getting into my 00' bog std basic losers car (its an L)
which cares not if you have pressed the clutch first before starting, are wearing your seatbelt or have all the doors open.

My toaster has more electronics in it than my car.

One of the benefits of this lack of technology is that it something isnt working properly, it just doesn't work properly. No lights to flash, no ecu to clear. no limp home mode. Just a car working poorly until i eventually gey round to fixing it.

wonderful
 
There is a certain pleasure in getting into my 00' bog std basic losers car (its an L)
which cares not if you have pressed the clutch first before starting, are wearing your seatbelt or have all the doors open.

My toaster has more electronics in it than my car.

One of the benefits of this lack of technology is that it something isnt working properly, it just doesn't work properly. No lights to flash, no ecu to clear. no limp home mode. Just a car working poorly until i eventually gey round to fixing it.

wonderful
I remember the accelerator cable snapping on my 1.3LX Mk1 Escort.

I disconnected the choke baffle, wound up the throttle advance and limped home using the choke lever as a throttle.

Modern cars don't even have an accelerator cable ffs.
 
I remember the accelerator cable snapping on my 1.3LX Mk1 Escort.

I disconnected the choke baffle, wound up the throttle advance and limped home using the choke lever as a throttle.

Modern cars don't even have an accelerator cable ffs.
The accelarator cable once got stuck on my Austin Maestro, or so I thought. When the mechanic from the team I was on looked at it it turned out it was rust on the pedal. That car was a machine
 
I'm currently (not actually right now) driving a brand new Mitsubishi L200 Warrior Twin-cab (hire car for work).

It's an auto, 5-speed box, which is a bit cack to start with, but the thing is so angry if you don't start it or stop it in exactly the right order.

It's got about three different tones of beep, and the alarm system is also f*cking mental. The bastard thing went off as I was driving it on Tuesday.
A pile of shite. As you probably have worked out.
 
A pile of shite. As you probably have worked out.
It doesn't drive too bad apart from the gearbox, and the 4WD is pretty solid as long as you can get along with the shitty selector knob. Plenty of grip on wet sand, even with hybrid tyres. I just can't get on with all the f*cking beeping every time I shut the thing down in the wrong order.
 
Hired a car here in NZ to get to my daughter house. F...king thing wouldn't stop beeping, move out if lane, beep, someone to close beside or behind, beep, too close to car in front on goes the brakes. Drove me f..king potty.
 

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