if driving a car without GPS is a problem, turn in your man card.
But wipers? If it rains in your region, those are essential, and without brake lights a lot of collisions happen because drivers behind that vehicle have no warning that it's stopping.
It's an interesting idea to make a video that shows how vehicle design has benefitted from women's rights/involvement/participation/ending workplace chauvinism and sexist discrimination, as long as it's not sexist and offensive - like those mysandrist Gillette ads a couple years ago
GPS? Ours would not work in Canada this past summer (2022). So, we used the good old maps that I had the vision to buy before the trip. We made it through Nova Scotia and through the City of Halifax without a problem. The other items, we need/
ReplyDeleteA friend of mine, when discussing the purchase of yet another stripped, low-ball, POS car purchase (he's a notorious cheapskate) would refer to the car as coming with "keys and heat" to describe the fact that you can't expect ANY luxuries - like operable windows or more than one useable door for instance. A heater, of course, is not a luxury - this is Minnesota after all.
ReplyDeleteI'm a Yooper, I know whatcha mean. VW bugs didn't come with heaters though. Hell, for all I know, none of the aircooled VW cars and vans did, not for the first couple decades anyway, I suspect they probably did something about that in the 70s just to sell new cars
DeleteThey had heaters, even the earliest ones. They just didn't work worth a blankety blank. The first came with a heater that pulled from the engine compartment, smoke and oil and all. Later ones with a "fresh air" heater blew air from the cooling fan through a pair of heat exchangers picking up exhaust heat from the forward cylinders, a nice aluminum radiator enclosed in a flimsy tin can, leading to a tube that carried forward, enclosed with insulation that either fell off or held moisture so the tube would rot. Thus when new, they made pretty decent heat, but if you had an old one, chances are that it all leaked out before it got anywhere useful. The long tube in the bus was notorious for just falling out resulting in absolutely no heat.
ReplyDeleteyoud think that for the filming of this commercial they could at least remove the mirrors from the car,
ReplyDeleteFord STOLE the intermittent wiper idea from the guy that invented it and showed it to Ford,
I think they made a movie out of the event.
Cranston has a lot of range, From the hilarious dad on Malcom in the Middle, to the nutty meth scientist on Breaking ,
Knew a girl with a Karman Gia and it had an aux-gas heater. As I remember you moved a lever on the lower inside firewall and it took gas out of the front located fuel tank.
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