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Looking through craptical plastics this month it struck me that I don't like ribbon speedos (or whatever they are called, linear is the correct name perhaps?) to the point that cars I love in every other aspect I wouldn't buy because I would be continually annoyed by the look of the speedo. No idea why. Just wondering if others have any design features that mean they wouldn't have a car (and don't say a Vauxhall badge on the front).

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Anything with a radio mounted so far to the left of the dashboard that only the front seat passenger can safely operate it when the car is on the move.

Or like the Marina and Ital, which had them centrally mounted but facing the passenger

 

 

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Airbag 

Aircon

ABS 

Immobiliser 

Catalyst 

High Level brake lights 

Any kind of key fob that consists of more than just a small enamel crest.   

Alloy wheels (unless Cosmic or similar after-market)

 

I am also averse to steering-column mounted ignition switches but I do have one vehicle with it.   Reluctantly.    

Same as I also put up with one vehicle that doesn't have proper rain gutters - another peeve.

 

But....the one thing I really hate is nowhere to put things.   Modern cars seem bad in this respect - absolutely nowhere to just put stuff.   Oh yes, moulded spec trays, coin holders, bloody coffee cup holders which are the work of some yet unseen devil.    All I want is a small carpeted tray on which to lay a tube of Polos and whatever screws have come out under the dash.

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The Marina radio is brilliant it's just such an unbelievably shit bit of design you have to applaud the fact it made it into production.

 

In all likelihood, someone in the Land of Ley back in the mid-1970s (the teenager on work experience at the Elephant House?) thought that it was the best thing ever and would influence car dashboard design for years to come  :mrgreen:

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When the wipers are not correctly handed, usually on rhd versions of lhd cars. VAG products of the '80s were often guilty of this, some of them randomly changing during a model run.

^^ this.

 

Also non-electrified cars and especially carbs. Confusing unreliable mechanical contraptions. Modern computer controlled fuel injection is a wonder of the modern world.

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It's alright this thread but it's just another thread likely to incite an argument. I say BMWs are wank, someone takes offence etc...

Sorted for you-

 

WARNING IF ANYONE WANTS TO BE A TWAT THIS CHRISTMAS PLEASE JOIN MUMS NET OR TRUMPS TWITTER FEED INSTEAD OF POSTING ON HERE.

 

the rest of us can carry on like adults and compare design features of the old cars we all love and a few we don't.

 

Merry Christmas run up week to one and all

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Black alloy wheels. I know it probably a generational thing. In my young day you only painted your alloys black if you'd biffed one. My ex, with whom I remain on good terms, brought her brand new Range Rover Ewok round for me to see. Lovely car, but the matt black wheels look shit. Carbon effect my bottom.

 

Also, that duck egg blue colour. Looks good on a mark 2 Escort, looks weird on an XK-R.

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