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Originally Posted by Sprintey
Apart from seeing tactile buttons (the low spec SY Territory is a great setup as mentioned above), I'd like to see simple mechanicals, robust simple suspensions and 'built to last'.
And bench seat 6 seater wagons, bench seat 3 seater panel vans. Column shifts. Make use of all the width of the car.
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There was a campaign in the 80s for these very outcomes. Increasing car prices were blamed on higher complexity, demanded by more and more safety regs.
Did we get a simple and cheap aussie made car? Of course not.
Instead, we got a deregulated financial market that ponzied everything in sight, including housing. Joe six pack didn't need a simple and cheap car when he could withdraw the fake equity from his always rising house valuation, and use it to lease a complex and overpriced foreign made $#@% box, guaranteed to last the length of the warranty, but not a second longer. When he could trade in, redraw and carry on.
And here we are today, decades later. Older, often indebted, and with cars we can't repair or maintain economically.