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From: JAB <noway@nochance.com>
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Subject: OT: Mini Rant About New Car
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2024 12:52:29 +0100
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Well our old one is finally on its last legs with what is probably a 
dodgy alternator but they aren't quite sure and it's not really worth 
possibly fixing it due to the age of the car vs. the cost. Kinda 
annoying as although it's almost twenty years old it only has 50,000 
miles on the clock. Enter stage left the used but only a year and a half 
old one.

Feck me it's like sitting behind a computer with all the controls and 
displays it has. The navigation, entertainment and communications 
owner's manual is eighty pages long. Do the really think I'm going to 
read all of that. The amusing part is that the standard owner's manual 
spends four pages explaining how to put petrol in it. So someone is 
going to understand all the complications of the location services but 
doesn't know what that round flap is for.

On the plus side it does have some niceties such as displaying the 
actual speed limit in case you've missed the sign, not having to take 
the key out of your pocket to start it and the top of my list - user 
profiles so you can have the wing mirrors and AC adjusted to how you 
like them. Now if only we could get a toilet seat that does the same.

The less said about warning me that my small rucksack in the passenger 
seat isn't wearing a seat belt the better. Oh and there's an app because 
of course there is.