Soccer moms all have to have a four door.... pickup or what ever. They only need a bed large enough to carry the snot nosed kids soccer balls and all the kids!!
All this fly by wire garbage has got to stop. The only thing it does is take control of the vehicle from the driver and give it to a computer. Throttle pedal sensors, dial a gear transmissions, electronic parking brakes (used to be called an Emergency Brake). All vehicle manufacturers are guilty of producing this garbage, so nobody knows how to handle any situation that may come up.
You won't catch me puttin up a fight there. I agree 100%. Technology has gone too far. We need the option of "no tech" vehicles. Maybe ZERO computer control EXCEPT the EFI system. But we all know that'll never happen.
I hope its not like when the Dodge Dart came back
I guess to off set the tires to the inside
No kidding. I was at the Mopars on the Strip car show in Vegas the year they came out. Dodge had several of them there and were letting people drive them. I drove one and it was OK. I asked if I could get a stereo with a CD player and the girl said no. Then she insulted me by basically saying that CDs were out and that only old people wanted them. I told her I had an extensive collection of CDs and several dozen books on CD. Then she continued to belittle me for wanting a CD player by telling me to just copy then onto an MP3 player. I told her I didn't want to do that, and she said something rude like "the figures". So even if I did like the car, that would have turned me off.
ABSOLUTELY!!!!!
They're trying to follow the John Deere, make it too complicated so you can't work on it yourself, engineering model.
Improper use of technology is bad technology!
IH is doing the same thing with Their Ton-&-a-Half sh*t, who wants to be stuck going to the Dealer for the life of a 'used for whatever it takes' contractor/plowing etc. or small tow shop, they've been rude & un-professional to friends of Mine who've been operating for decades.
Years ago I had a shop repairing Wood Boats & didn't own a welder. Before, I'd worked at many shops that let me use theirs. I needed one for a forgotten project & a friend had a Craftsman Wire Welder he let me use. It didn't work right & I determined it had nozzle & tip problems & went to my normal Welding shop dealer friend who couldn't get Craftsmans' Proprietary parts as they were made by Hobart. He got me the same Hobart parts out & the only difference was the threads. The Craftsman part was Stupidly More Expensive. So I bought the Hobart part & rethreaded the head to accept it. Worked great.
I bought a Craftsman buffer) back in the 90s only to learn you had to use their pads!!! Sears was 1 hour away. I thru it in the trash and last time I bought anything from Sears/Craftsman!
