Yeah I mean all those fancy new features aren’t cheap.

If you had two working fobs it’d have been cheaper to reprogram. Also locksmiths can often make keys for cars cheaper than the dealer.

Headlight assemblies with integrated LEDs look great and help sell new cars. They’re an absolute nightmare for the subsequent owners. LEDs do eventually burn out and you’re gonna end up with beaters that cost more to replace the taillight assembly than the car is worth unless the aftermarket steps up.

You know how all cars replaced normal parking brakes with those stupid electronic buttons? Well now you need an expensive scan tool to do something as cheap and easy as replacing rear brake pads.

All manufacturers in all industries are making servicing their products as cumbersome and expensive as possible. That way they can sell more service, or more new equipment quicker. It’s why right to repair laws are so important. Unfortunately our government has no interest in protecting people from corporations.

Every week in /r/Miata someone posts a picture after a truck rolled over their Miata in a drive thru or at a light. Unironically we might need those

Gonna have a bit of a hard time getting combustion without electronics lol.

Have driven 154k miles in Atlanta over the last 5 years with manuals. Never been an issue. Leave a gap and creep in first or second during highway congestion. For backed up surface streets where you’ll be waiting 3-5 light cycles take you foot off the clutch.

Yeah this sounds like embarrassingly common sense. And yet every time the topic comes up people complain about shakey knees and getting sore🙄🙄

And yet dealers couldn’t keep them on lots and owners couldn’t keep them in their driveways.

There is still stupid demand for them. At least in ATL anyway.

These workers aren’t in the union tho

Damn. My NC would be a killer if the hood wasn’t at knee height.