Features on cars that you no longer see but you miss

[Vaud]

aeropilot said:

^This.

It's ironic (absurd actually) that legislation in the name of safety is actually making cars less safe as the driver's visibility is getting ever more restricted, so making them less safe.....

No it isn't. It's making a balanced call for survival cell vs visibility by lots and lots of people with a lot of data, engineering experience and years of experience.

[EnglishTony]

Vaud said:

No it isn't. It's making a balanced call for survival cell vs visibility by lots and lots of people with a lot of data, engineering experience and years of experience.

Use a better grade of steel and make thinner. It's what the customer wants

[CraigyMc]

Morningside said:

djneils98 said:

Engines. all my recent cars have had big lumps of plastic where the engine should be.
Used to like it when cars had engines.

why hide them up?

Noise. Next question?

[anonymous-user]

tomsugden said:

Indicators.

I believe you can still get these but I think they're just optional extras.

[Vaud]

EnglishTony said:

Use a better grade of steel and make thinner. It's what the customer wants

I imagine that it is much more complicated than just steel grade, but then I'm not a vehicle crash specialist.

[olliete]

E65Ross said:

Are you for real?

I'm guessing you're overweight and very lazy?

[shakotan]

JoyCV8 said:

AH33 said:

Cigarette Lighters
Ashtrays

This x10

On all VAG cars you can option a 'smoking pack' which consists an ashtray to go in the cupholder and a lighter for the 12v socket.

[Shaw Tarse]

olliete said:

E65Ross said:

Are you for real?

I'm guessing you're overweight and very lazy?

With a hole in his head?

[Coatesy351]

Cigarette lighters and ashtrays in every door, velour interior trim, those check panels that tell you if washer fluid is low, bulbs are out etc. Oscillating air vents, vacuum fluorescent digital dashboards

[LasseV]

Fun to drive
Reliability

[parabolica]

Leins said:

The sun-roof is becoming a very rare item, and personally I'd take one over air-con any day

I've just spent the last few months looking at BMW 640s and almost all I went and saw had sun-roofs. So I now own a car that, for the first time in my 15 years of driving, has a sunroof! In fact I don't think we've ever had a sun-roof in the family! Have to say the cabin in the 640 is wonderfully light and airy thanks to it.

[anonymous-user]

Screen squirters by a floor mounted foot pump (Ford).

Fuel caps hidden behind the rear reg plate (Merc).

Little lights in the key to find the keyhole with (Ford).

Opening quarterlights (Pretty much anything pre-1980).

[AH33]

LasseV said:

Fun to drive
Reliability

[spyker138]

I prefer to start my car with a key, not a red starter button.

[skyrover]

Plastic bumpers, plastic trim, plastic clips, plastic covers... Plastic everywhere.

More metal please.

Edited by skyrover on Friday 20th May 15:20

[tankplanker]

Bench seats in the front. The ability to have hot air out the vents in the foot well and cold air out the vents on the dash, wasn't amazingly common on older cars but more seemed to have it than now.

[Shaw Tarse]

spyker138 said:

I prefer to start my car with a key, not a red starter button.

Why?
(is it security issues?)

[anonymous-user]

Pop-up lights.

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[jonah35]

Hand brake
Bench front seat
Thin a pillars
Bg turbo lag!

[bozonoz]

Cars that still use analogue gauges... its the 21st century, I don't have analogue dials in my watch anymore. Feels like more manufacturers were trying digital gauges back in the day.

I drove a 2001 Yaris for a while with digi dash, took about 2 minutes to get used to it, got another car with analogue gauges and took months to readjust.

Also can't stand cars that think they need to automatically put the rear wiper on every time you select reverse just because it rained. Parking in a tight space the wiper goes nuts scraping across the dry glass!!!