Modern cars are fit with every possible conceivable luxury one can think of. Talk about seats alone, there are heated seats, electrically adjustable seats with memory, seats that massage you, all that’s left is the ejection package to shoot your co-passenger through the sunroof. Then comes all the other gizmos like satellite navigation, TV screens, computers, cameras, cruise control and the lot. The list of unnecessary accessories goes on and on. Honestly, all you need is a potting shed and then you might as well live in the damn thing.
The trouble is with all this luxury and unnecessary whiff whaff the car becomes heavier which results in poor fuel economy, but the biggest problem caused by this added weight is its effect on the car’s performance and handling. The car accelerates slower with all the added weight, the handling in corners becomes iffy and negotiating sharp manoeuvres can get tricky. Ofcourse, manufacturers go to great extent to take care that their cars do not become dangerous and therefore have to carefully distribute weight equally around the car. But just take all that stuff off and you can get better fuel economy, handling and performance from the same car. Ecomentalists should catch on with this stuff, it will reduce pollution and our children will grow up amongst daisies and birds which can occasionally crap on them in the playground (but ofcourse they won’t, they are idiots).
The perfect recipe would be rear wheel drive, proper manual gearbox and all the basic stuff like air conditioning, powered windows, demister, fog lamps, a stereo which is just a stereo and nothing else and cruise control if you live in a city (it’s a joy in traffic). A car is meant to be enjoyed for its sheer driving pleasure, it isn’t meant to be your den.
So maybe less is more.
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