Originally Posted by
sjanzeir
And how's that working out for ya?
And neither is the 504. I've had multiple vehicles that I bought new that had some or all of these things, and every single one of them proved to be an expensive out-of-warranty headache. And don't even get me started on the whole oversized-alloy-wheel, low-profile-tire thing!
I lived here during the 1960s with the terrible air pollution of that era. It's sooo much better now even though there are millions more cars on the road.
I can't even imagine how much worse the pollution and fuel prices would be if there were no controls. Having measured the tailpipe emissions of thousands of cars since 1983 I can see the difference modern tech makes.
I agree that the factories could build simple, economical cars but that's not where the money is.