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<DIV><FONT size=2>With you whole-heartedly. Plus stupid front driving
lights that flash on and off every time you twitch the steering wheel
distracting every one else; stupid indicator talks that return to the
centre when you indicate and have to be pushed the other way to cancel
them ... but go to far and they start flashing the other way; ditto main/dip
stalks where you don't know whether they are on or off simply by feeling
the position of the stalk; stupid light clusters that are a triumph of 'styling'
over function and you don't see come on unless you are looking right at them,
and then only if the sun isn't at a particular angle; big-brother systems that
in real-time transmit back to the manufacturer exactly where you are and what
you are doing down to which door was opened when. Let alone the removal of
any and all feedback as to what is happening between the car and the road and
the driving 'experience' is reduced to sitting in an armchair watching TV -
which is about all the attention drivers of them pay to what it going on
outside.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>My MG ZS 180 is 15 years old, has only done 50k but I'm going
to have to replace it soon because spares are getting harder and harder to
find. I have a B roadster and a factory V8 and use them in preference, but
am not willing to 'sacrifice' them to winter salt. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>PaulH.</FONT></DIV>
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have this gripe about new cars and this is the only big platform I have on
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