Thought Of The Day
this one came to me as I drove home from work in a torrential downpour tonight. I think society has finally abandoned and forgotten the art of appreciating the base model car.
One of the things that mystifies me the most about today’s auto market is the prevalence of the huge amount of options packed into small, cheap cars. Things like the Mini Cooper, with it’s available rear-parking sensor, dual-zone climate control, rain-sensing windshield wipers, GPS Satellite Navigation, and other such useless gewgaws usually desired by those of the female persuasion (Sorry, it’s true.) In a Mini Cooper? Are you kidding me?
If you need a rear backup sensor to park your Mini, you shouldn’t have a damn driver’s license in the first place. That is a sign that you are truly a vapid retard; the presence of back-up sensors on a Mini. Or voice controls. My god, how humble we all once were for using buttons to control our luxury options. A car is disgustingly cheap if it doesn’t have a sunroof either. I’m sorry, I hate sunroofs. I’m 6′2″, and many small cars with optional sunroofs breach the barrier of “I don’t fit in this damn thing.”
To be honest, when i spec a car out online, there are usually only a few options I want. A good stereo. The best possible headlights. Heated seats. iPod adaptor or at least a CD-Changer. Uhh… electric windows, cruise control. Actually, that’s all of it. No automatic transmissions, Dual-Zone CC, leather or power seats, Navigation, rain-sensing damn anything, memory seats, bluetooth, rear cameras, voice controls, electronic laser-guided cruise control, wheel finger controls, satellite radio, headrest TV’s, a refrigerator, a sunroof, electrochromic mirror, etc etc. I see it as just more stuff that can break. No thanks.
The options I got on my car were: ESP. Wait, that was the only option. I could’ve spent another 1500 bucks and gotten the upper level model, but i didn’t want fake leather seats, a sunroof, cheesy alloys, rain sensing wipers, and some other crap. I wanted the cloth, it’s better in the summer (never hot) and the winter (never very cold.) I wanted ESP because it is a mechanical improvement, and not that pricey ($650, I think.) The only options that are worth a damn besides that handful of niceties are ones that actually add something to the vehicle.
Clif notes: Fuck you, Lexus.