Eventually it will go wrong, of course it will, its meant to, its not in makers interests to build cars that last 20 years any more, they made that mistake in the late 80's/90's, rust doesn't kill cars off in the way it used to so economical early scrappage, aided and abetted by gradual legislation to rid towns (at first) of those simpler cars that survived is the way forward.

Drjaking, you're on a slippery slope, the brainwashing didn't take as it was supposed, next thing you'll be on a register somewhere as a potential luddite/dissident, and find yourself searching out simpler older designs or even van based hardier stuff, you're in good company..:-)

Edited by gordonbennet on 25/03/2014 at 09:29

I wouldn't class a centrally locked fuel filler as modern technology, probably been around 20 years

All my life people have always wanted a better equipped car. When I was a kid my dad always wanted one with a heater and carpets but now it moved on a little bit.

Why would anyone with even 1/2 a brain would want to go back to those days.

Would you want a house without central heating just because its one less thing to go wrong. Would you get rid of the washing machine since that ocationally breaks, same with the telly and fridge.

From the way the technophobes react to modern living you would think they want to go back to the stone age.

I like my cars with lots of modern conveniences.

And at the end of the day a modern car with all the gizmo's is still more reliable than a car of the 60's and 70's 9or even the 80's) that had no equipement whatsoever.

Yes, all very true but in the interests of sanity I think a line has to drawn somewhere-and that should be just to the north of an electrical parking brake - if there is any gadget that is looking to solve a problem that doesn't exist it has got to be that. Can't drivers pull the handbrake lever up any more? Are people who drive so physically weak that they find it difficult or impossible to use a handbrake? I can appreciate that in the case of a disabled driver that may be case and a handbrake applied electrically may be a godsend, but for a normally fit driver it is superfluous.