Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS

• lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah, I have a 2012 Civic and I’m keeping that thing until the wheels fall off (assuming I can’t reattach them). The only thing I don’t have that would be useful is Bluetooth and that’s only because they’ve stopped making phones with headphone jacks. I had a much newer model as a loaner while it was being serviced one time and I fucking hated that thing. The only thing I’d consider trading in for would be a light truck with a full size bed but those don’t exist. At least not in USA.

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  • kalpol@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Those little FM transmitter things are better than nothing.

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• Zink@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m currently driving a low-mileage 2012 Mazda 3 that we have owned since new, and it’s pretty great. It’s a 40mpg hwy vehicle, is fun to drive on the back roads to work manually selecting gears, and I can load 8ft lumber and 10ft pipes into it lengthwise (it’s a sedan too, not hatchback) at home depot while the guys hopping back into their shiny $80,000 commuter trucks watch me.

  I think I want to replace it with an MX5 one day. Recent Mazda interiors I’ve looked at seem to have kept a reasonable balance of physical controls along with moderately sized infotainment screens. So maybe a new one could be on the table. We’ll see how the next revision turns out.

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• bstix@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That was also the period when the introduction of tire pressure sensors created brand new issue that people never had before.

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  • BussyCat@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And in the same day the crime was at the lowest someone still got killed, and the day the stock market rose to a new high some stocks went down.

    Just because a problem exists doesn’t negate that it was the best time period

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  • mushroomman_toad@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    90s civics? I mean they’re all rotting now, but they were pretty reliable for like 20 years.

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    • Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Or… 90’s Toyota Corolla, there are plenty of them riding around in here.

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• SpaceCadet@sopuli.xyz ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Perhaps even a bit later. My 2014 F20 BMW 1-series was still pretty great. The facelift model of the same car I had after that (2017 or so) is the first one that started to include things that annoyed me.

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  • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Light, rear-wheel drive, cheap to run and even mod, mechanically “simple” (relative to today’s BMW electronics), even slightly overspected.

    Fun little car.

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    • SpaceCadet@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Exactly why I had four 1-series since 2008 (E82, E81, F20 pre-facelift, F20 facelift). Switched to a G20 3-series when the 1-series went FWD, and soon it will be all electrical and qualities like “fun”, “light” and “simple” will be a thing of the past. We adapt and move on.

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• Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I dunno. I had an 03 Corolla that had heated seats and electric windows that held on to gas like a camel with water. Best car i ever has

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