The most produced car in the world taught us:We don't need power steeringWe don't need A/CWe don't need touchscreens (and everything on it)We don't need power windows or mirrorsWe don't need cruise controlWe don't need ABSWe don't need bullshit features we use once and never use again...and most of all, we don't need cars to be made for more than $30,000 (adjusted) new.
Yeah, then their wives force them to sell the house for a nice truck.
>>28667707>>28667674I believe the aussies created the true final word in the automotive world. If straya was permitted full power to export to the US, we'd be in an entirely different world
>>28667674you can still get those kind of cars in Third World cunts to this day Russia still doesn't require airbags on vehicles
no pads, no helmets, just balls
>>28667674ABS and Power Steering are good things though.Just because I drive two cars without ABS doesn't mean that I want some random dude who rides asses and can't drive good rear-ending me and giving me whiplash because he doesn't have enough stopping distance.
>>28667674what is this eurofag copeno i will not buy your 1.0L 3-4cyl shitbox
>>28667751ABS increases your stopping distance tho
>>28667810In a perfect situation ABS will add a smidge of stopping distance. Like 5ft.But no road is nice enough and no driver good enough to beat the ABS.
>>28667810only if you're slamming on the brakes like a tardproper ABS lets you threshold brake just like any non-ABS systemfurthermore, any ABS from the past 10 years with a four-channel system (that is, any ABS from the past 20-30 years) is objectively superior when braking into a turn
>>28667723America already had utes and they failed to overtake trucks.
>>28667674we do need power brakes and synchronized gearboxes thoughbeit
>>28667968>synchronized gearboxesThis is why we have women drivers
>we don't need A/CWell I do
>>28668078You didn't need AC in the car's homeland in Europe, but Germany really isn't Texas now, is it?
>>28668044no that would be autos
>>28668096Or maybe you shouldn't go and live in a hellhole where the natural circumstances force you to lock yourself up in artificially cooled boxes for 7 months of the year.Anyone who lives outside of the Cfb climate zone is simply asking for it.If you really NEED A/C, you live in a hotbox climate destined for third worlders.If you really NEED 4WD, it means you live in a country without any good infrastructure.If you really NEED an automatic option, it means you live in an area full of lazy cunts who paid to get their drivers license.If you really NEED a >2.0 litre I6/V6/V8, it means your micropenis doesn't get enough daily strokes from your middle management secretary.If any of these conditions apply, you were simply never meant to drive a car. You just don't deserve it. Instead of clamoring for these features and making cars more expensive for all of us, why don't you take the easy way out and depopulate that barren wasteland you call the Sun Belt?
>>28668185>yea bro if you don't wanna live in africa or places with strong "govern me harder daddy!" mentality you deserve itthis has to be bait
>>28668185>If you really NEED an automatic option, it means you live in an area full of lazy cunts who paid to get their drivers licenseis this about driving schools only using automatic cars?
>>28668185go back to your cuck shed
I live in Dfa.
>>28668339never heard of it
>>28667674The VW Beetle was also a car that guaranteed your death if it crashed. It was a wonderful people's car but it did not do much to protect the occupants.
>>28668340https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humid_continental_climate
>>28668185Absolutely busrider take.
>>28668344i have now heard of it
>inflation adjusted $30k for a bare minimum shitboxDamn Volkswagen has been trash since day one
>>28667674evidently you didn't need a reliable, respectable, engaging, or performing car either
>>28667926well ultimately what's the difference to the average person? it's a truck but low?
my dad once knew a guy who was in an accident in a VW Bus and got his leg crushed
>>28668185this guy really is scared of stepping outside lmao
>>28667674nice looking 911 anon, how have you been fairing since you lost to Bubba’s corvette?
>>28668359Some will say that if it was good enough for mein fuhrer...
>>28668476Isn't his entire point being able to go outside?
>>28668185Based.
>>28667751Have you ever driven a car without either? If you didn't have a dozen distractions between the entire color palette in the dashboard that puts Bob Ross to shame to fiddling with enough switches and buttons to rival an aircraft cockpit, you can accurately gauge distance and not have to slam on the brakes 99% of the time.To justify NEEDING ABS is like bending yearly rules on celebrating Christmas and skipping the festivity because that ONE crazy cat lady in town doesn't like it so the whole village suffers.
>>28667674People who fetishize the beetle either never drove one or have rose tinted glasses. It was cheap but also absolutely miserable, even the cheapest shitboxes of today are far far better and can be had for less adjusted for inflation than a beetle went for.
>>28669005The first time I was in a Beetle was the day we went to see Star Wars (1977?).If only it was a wagon.
they only had a top speed of 55 mph so highway driving was off the table
>>28669010In an era when cars went 55, 55 was fast enough.
>>28669020by the 60s and the interstate highway system that wasn't good enough anymore.
>>28668359strange, I just asked google and it's only 12000 euros inflation adjusted and changing it from DM to eurois inflation really that bad on the other side of the pond?
i always found it odd that Americans made the Beetle into some kind of youth/counterculture symbol because in Europe it was a grandma car
>>28669030Americans are obsessed with projecting the image of being self-made men who pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps. Hence a lot of them want to look working class and that reflects in a lot of fashion trends: jeans, duck canvas jackets, pickup trucks, etc.
>>28669030it was. the Beetle was a cheap first car for kids here.
>>28669005Uh, so in my 45 years of living with dozens of cars and my '73 Super that I completely rewired, replaced all of the brakes and disc swapped front (among other restoration work) is simply me living with a narrow view of the world?I never felt more connected to a car. Sure it's a rusty frame in need of a lor more work but damn, it's stupid easy to work on.
>>28669030Grandma can do sub 14 second quarter mile passes on two liter build with a properly tuned pair of HPMX carbs bud....but then again you gave up the standard imperial so you may not understand
>>28669010My tires are undersized 165/65r15s and I have no problem crusing at 60 on 3.88 gears. I could go faster but I'm not dropping from my 30 MPG on the I-5.
>>28667873Thats a lie and your fuddlore has been proven wrong with tens of thousands of tests.
>>28668979yeah, in the most inoffensive conditions possible, and only exclusively. he'd have a stroke if a warm breeze passed him
>>28669004goddamn you must drive like shit if you think ABS goes off when driving normally. but you're the type who can't look at the road so i guess everything surprises you
>>28669053>my opinion is right because i make a graph
>>28667674It had mcdonalds, power steering, and ac starting in mid 70's
>>28668185If you NEED a car you’re a fat fuck who can’t see your dick. Or you were raped by a horse as a child and are scared of them.
>>28668233>"govern me harder daddy!" mentalityThe American, entitled form of decadence and their idea of "evil government" will be the end of Western civilization. Doordash some more XXL fajitas, you fat fuck.>>28668345I drive a Peugeot 304. I'd take the train twelve times over the bus anyway.>>28669038Americans have been and will always be astroturfing like their lives depend on it. Despite being the pinnacle of decadence and consumerism, they'll always be the "poor underdog" to the "foreign powers".>>28669881- I'd invite you to go out in the pouring rain that graces these shores every other day. Bonus points if it's 2°C.>>28670213A horse absolutely dominates modern cars, people will always be scared of tailgating them.
>>28670331>Doordash some more XXL fajitas, you fat fucki'm not even american LOL
>>28670331also>A horse absolutely dominates modern carsLOL. if a car breaks a CV axle you don't have to scrap it
>>28668342based
>>28670341a car can be left in your garage for a weekend and not need to be scrapped either.
>>28670331so you live somewhere inhospitable, and unrespectable? big whoop.
Most importantly it told us where the engine belongs
>>28667674but that car sucks
>>28671712Inhospitable is the wrong word. Cold temperatures and a decent amount of hardship encourage productivity, cooperation and self-actualization. There is a reason civilization never developed in regions without a winter. The only thing tropical climates promote is lazing around and getting fat.
>>28671988air
I owned a 1972 Super Beetle and it was a gigantic piece of crap, thank christ for fuel injection
>>28672096>thank christ for fuel injectionI (briefly) owned a 1978 Super Beetle with fuel injection, got it with some damage bc that injection system has tendency to set the car on fire if you don't replace the fuel lines from time to timeThe later fuel injection they put on the mexican Beetles was pretty good though.
>>28667674The beetle was a piece of shit.
I think they're neat, but then I grew up in the early 90s when people were still daily driving Beetles here and there
>>28672531:)
>>28668470truck people dont want low, retard
