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chestertonfence t1_iskicyv wrote

Does this car have airbags? Seat-belt pre-tensioners? Side impact protection? Electronic stability control?

Look on YouTube for any crash tests showing 80's cars vs. modern cars.

It's great that VW actually made a product that lasted a while with proper care, but I wouldn't be driving this on busy or fast public roads.

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korky1318 OP t1_islbh6r wrote

I understand your point of view, yet I don't share it at all. I have an immense fun driving this car around, whether it be on mountain roads or busy highways etc. If I die in a crash, at least I died happy instead of dieing behind my phone being too used to an almost self driving soulless hybrid junk on wheels.

To each is own, in my opinion all this assistance stuff has made people careless and worsened their driving skills over the years. Be it ESP, cameras, beeps etc. Not talking about airbags and ABS which are a good thing.

Try texting when your car is a manual, pulls right left depending on tyre size, hasn't the best brakes nor any kind of assistance. This shit takes your full attention and the lack thereof is what causes most accidents.

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chestertonfence t1_islwx5m wrote

Yep, sure sounds like we have different viewpoints. I prefer modern safe soulless cars that allow me to focus full attention on the road with a minimum of levers to operate. Get me from A to B comfortably and safely.

You seem to prefer having full operational control over every aspect and value that feeling of more control. The hands-on compensation for aspects of traditional motoring is fun for you, but not for me.

I prefer computers do as much as possible to protect me automatically so if someone does distract me for a moment, or someone is unavoidably going to hit me, my passengers and I have a better chance of survivability.

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