Personally, I'm disgusted by the absolute useless garbage they ladle into cars today. Automatic Braking; Radar-Guided Cruise Control; One-button parallel parking..... Those are all the things a person should learn when driving. If they can't do those things: they shouldn't be driving!!! I refuse to pay money for something I'll never use.

I almost think we need something revolutionary. A modern Model T. Something that provides good, reliable, comfortable transportation at a reasonable price. It's no wonder there are fewer and fewer younger drivers: A) we've practically priced them OUT of the market. Anything older and *cool* is a small fortune; and anything modern and reliable is..... a small fortune. The average kid making minimum wage would have to save every penny he earned for 2-3 years to buy a used chunk of $hit.

I think we need to go back to crank windows; manual adjusted seats, manual steering. Hell, my first car was an '82 Honda Civic! It had all those things, a snippy little motor, 5 speed gearbox and ran for 2 weeks on $12 worth of gas. I think the federal regulations on cars too has choked them out of the market. Making something small and fuel efficient isn't going to be 5-star crash rated; hence the gigantic bro-dozers people drive today.

We need to get back to basics. Could you imagine the fuel economy of something like an '82 Civic with a MODERN, fuel-injected engine??? But some Ralph Nader / Karen type would complain "it's unsafe" and destroy any chance it had.

Agree with this 100%. My wife bought a new CRV last year. Has all of the whistles and bells. Lane departure, Honda safety sense, blah, blah, blah. I shut as much of the garbage off as I could. I DETEST the infotainment screen. ALL I WANTED TO DO WAS TURN THE AIR CONDITIONING ON...not set 47 different zones, modulate this, adjust that. I'm an engineer by trade and I 100% know what the first thing to fail will be. It would not be crank windows and manual seats. I wrote a letter to Honda asking them to bring back the 1999 CRV (which my daughter still has for a winter beater). The absolute pinnacle (in my opinion) of the vehicle. Simple...reliable.....no BS. Yes, the new one gets great gas mileage, but I can say that as soon as we creep up on the end of the warranty cycle, it will be gone.