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Open Forum / Re: New car time- shocking
« Last post by Boomer on May 16, 2025, 03:34:09 AM »Nothing wrong with Electric cars if you never do long runs, and even those are do-able if you plan well.
Personally, I find the "driver assist" devices in all new cars are what puts me off, that and the lack of interior space.
(When are they ever going to figure out that there are customers out here who are 6'4" and just don't fit in their vehicles?)
I don't want lane assist or brake assist or speed limiters or any such crap.
If I am driving the car it should do what I tell it, not what it thinks it should do.
Over here all those can be disabled, but when you turn the ignition off and on again, it re-enables all of them which I hate.
Until the car can 100% drive itself, I am the driver and I decide what happens. Yes, I am a control freak!
I'm gonna stick with my 2004 145k mile Lexus LS430 for the foreseeable future.
In fact I am about to spend $6000 on new suspension, getting the air-con fixed, and a few other jobs that need doing on it.
Personally, I find the "driver assist" devices in all new cars are what puts me off, that and the lack of interior space.
(When are they ever going to figure out that there are customers out here who are 6'4" and just don't fit in their vehicles?)
I don't want lane assist or brake assist or speed limiters or any such crap.
If I am driving the car it should do what I tell it, not what it thinks it should do.
Over here all those can be disabled, but when you turn the ignition off and on again, it re-enables all of them which I hate.
Until the car can 100% drive itself, I am the driver and I decide what happens. Yes, I am a control freak!

I'm gonna stick with my 2004 145k mile Lexus LS430 for the foreseeable future.
In fact I am about to spend $6000 on new suspension, getting the air-con fixed, and a few other jobs that need doing on it.