Why do manufacturers insist on cramming as much useless shit into a car as possible?
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[QUOTE=Big Orca;32047747]Do I really have to repost this?[/QUOTE]
I'm gonna go cry. :emo:
Anyone who considers seat heaters useless has never had to drive on leather seats after digging the car out of the snow. I prefer my testicles out of my diaphragm and my ass unfrozen.
Other than that, I like having an a/c, cruise control, keyless entry, power locks, power mirrors, a nice stereo, and power windows. I own a GPS reciever, so that's no big deal. I think most of the other shit is just useless, but I'll never touch it anyway so it doesn't bother me.
[QUOTE=Second-gear-of-mgear;32061335]In my freshman year, my friend just parked in his spot and some guy in a Cobalt hits the back of his car. My friend got out and kicked his headlight in.[/QUOTE]
A lot of drivers at school are retarded. They back up too far, they try to force their way into to shit. Some guy almost scraped the entire side of my truck because he was trying to squeeze his bigass SUV in front of me and I wouldnt let him in because he drove all the way up the empty part of the parking lot.
[QUOTE=Second-gear-of-mgear;32061335]In my freshman year, my friend just parked in his spot and some guy in a Cobalt hits the back of his car. My friend got out and kicked his headlight in.[/QUOTE]
Shit like this is why i carry a breaker bar around (with the excuse that it's to change wheels if i get a flat but i don't have a spare lolol). Dent my door? say good bye to your window! Yes, i am that kind of asshole.
Meh, parkades are even worse. Someone somehow dented a horizontal line into my door near the front of the door, it looks like someone actually DROVE INTO MY CAR.
How you manage to accidentally drive into someone else's car while getting in/out of a parking spot, I have no idea. Fuck.
I'd guess my car has just the right balance of gimmicky shit, it's got heated seats, the rest is old technology but useful, such as electric heated mirrors, a light that comes on in the car when you unlock it at night etc etc, I don't want this crap ford are putting out that reverse parks for you or puts the brakes on if a car pulls out on you, this is whats wrong with cars of today. People are going to end up way to complacent and expect the car to do EVERYTHING for them.
[QUOTE=George_525;32089025]I'd guess my car has just the right balance of gimmicky shit, it's got heated seats, the rest is old technology but useful, such as electric heated mirrors, a light that comes on in the car when you unlock it at night etc etc, I don't want this crap ford are putting out that reverse parks for you or puts the brakes on if a car pulls out on you, this is whats wrong with cars of today. People are going to end up way to complacent and expect the car to do EVERYTHING for them.[/QUOTE]
There are people who actually use automatic parallel parking on their road test here, then wonder wtf to do when the test instructor says "Now do it YOURSELF".
Automatic parallel parking is so fucking stupid, if you're that retarded that you can't figure out how to parallel park you shouldn't be driving in the first place
[QUOTE=Penis Colada;32089550]Automatic parallel parking is so fucking stupid, if you're that retarded that you can't figure out how to parallel park you shouldn't be driving in the first place[/QUOTE]
It's useful for certain cars and for older drivers. Parallel parking in my dad's SUV is a nightmare because there's huge chunky C and D pillars, so you have to park pretty much blind. Older drivers have trouble craning their neck around to parallel park.
[QUOTE=Saber15;32090336]It's useful for certain cars and for older drivers. Parallel parking in my dad's SUV is a nightmare because there's huge chunky C and D pillars, so you have to park pretty much blind. Older drivers have trouble craning their neck around to parallel park.[/QUOTE]
This is why we dont drive hugeass SUV's and shouldnt let old people drive.
[QUOTE=Waffle99;32112968]This is why we dont drive hugeass SUV's and shouldnt let old people drive.[/QUOTE]
It's easier to parallel park with my Jeep Cherokee than with my Volvo 940
[QUOTE=Ldesu;32113413]It's easier to parallel park with my Jeep Cherokee than with my Volvo 940[/QUOTE]
Hugeass SUV's. Have you seen the ford expedition and the like?
you're saying a cherokee is small? :v:
cherokees, blazers, and explo(d)rers are all small suv's.
[QUOTE=Ldesu;32114698]you're saying a cherokee is small? :v:[/QUOTE]
Dat Suburban
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And the Excursion too.
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[QUOTE=Ldesu;32114698]you're saying a cherokee is small? :v:[/QUOTE]Compared to something along the likes of a Ford Excursion. Very, very small. An Excursion is essentially a Ford F-series Super Duty with an SUV body.
[QUOTE=Second-gear-of-mgear;31958081]Plus I like all the gadgets. I don't live in an area with fun roads, They're nice and smooth yeah, but boring. A good radio, sweet AC and all the stuff are really nice to have.
In other news, some Kid drove a silver 911 to school today. Brand fucking new. No idea why his parents would let him drive that.[/QUOTE]
I guess if they're rich as hell or something, it doesn't matter that much anyway :v:
Went back to my old HS with my friend to crash the first day of school. Some kid now in grade 12 got a brand new truck from his parents.
This car has loads of useless shit, but it's all awesome. Like the little touch pad that you trace letters out onto. The car has so much stuff in it that it has to have cooling fans for the computers.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIanXBL1-OA[/media]
electrical mirrors, electrical windows. i am sorted
[QUOTE=Second-gear-of-mgear;32168312]This car has loads of useless shit, but it's all awesome. Like the little touch pad that you trace letters out onto. The car has so much stuff in it that it has to have cooling fans for the computers.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIanXBL1-OA[/media][/QUOTE]Dear god, the climate control system has more lights than my entire car!
To be fair, my mom's 01 Tahoe has a fan on the stock headunit. But I'm sure that's because the amp for the subwoofer is built into it, rather than being separate.
[QUOTE=Second-gear-of-mgear;32168312]This car has loads of useless shit, but it's all awesome. Like the little touch pad that you trace letters out onto. The car has so much stuff in it that it has to have cooling fans for the computers.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIanXBL1-OA[/media][/QUOTE]
That is a car for a rich sonofabitch who wants to tune out the world.
I [h2]HATE[/h2] electronic throttles
I don't find parking large trucks/SUVs hard at all. Its just one of those skills you get when you learn to park. Once I learned how to park with it the first time, the rest are all cake walks.
Fuck, I even took our family's Expedition to senior prom and parked it in a cramp ass parking spot downtown. Would have been roomier if I took a smaller car, but it worked.
Parking my moldsmobile is like parking a big vehicle in the sense that it's turning circle is the size of Belarus.
[QUOTE=Super_Noodle;32176502]Parking my moldsmobile is like parking a big vehicle in the sense that it's turning circle is the size of Belarus.[/QUOTE] I drive a truck that drives like a car (Tacoma) so I dont have to worry about shit turning radius. I can turn around on a 2 lane road.
[QUOTE=Waffle99;32182696]I drive a car that looks like a truck[/QUOTE]
FTFY
[QUOTE=Super_Noodle;32183018]FTFY[/QUOTE]
Sadly, yes. But it gets the gas mileage of a truck and can at least fill the back with slate chips to the brim and still move.
In the US I dont know how people find issues with parking, why would they need automated parking stuff, you have big ass cars but HUGE parking spaces. The 5 times ive been to the US i'm amazed at simply how much room you have in a space.
In the UK 99.5% of the time you have barely any room either side of the lines, and thats with a SMALL car. Big cars like SUV's etc go over the lines either side. Hummers would be impossible in this country. Cant find a video online, but theres an episode of Top gear where Jeremy drives a hummer H1 and H2 though a UK town and its riddiculous lol.
you have it easy americans, you dont need all this shit in your cars
My truck would be classified as a small/light duty truck (not a mini-truck) and it would be fucking massive on you brit's roads.
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