Sorry, but you are taking it out of context. The sentence before and the two after clearly show he was talking about the car industry.

Simplicity in vehicles is all in vogue. You deal with smart TVs, touch screens, and streamlined visual aids throughout your day that auto makers want to similarly streamline the interiors of their vehicles. There’s also a monetary aspect moving towards more simplicity, as it means less be-spoke buttons and knobs to…

For the life of me, I can’t figure out why the obsession with re-inventing the gear shifter. The gear shifter as we know it basically is from the 1910s when they standardized the pedals. Stick on the steering column, dash or floor.

Electronic door latches are also stupid

Let’s start all articles with quotations from Miranda Priestley. That was a riot reading this article in that tone.

So, with that logic, am I supposed to think that Prius and Tesla drivers with their latte’s are hung like John Holmes?

Manual cars ARE safer. My original response to the OP was removed (intentionally), but I’ll continue to disagree, that it’s a stupid myth (or a myth in general). You’re obviously lying if you think a manual car doesn’t force you to pay some kind of attention to the act of driving and your surroundings. You’re also…

A friend’s teenager once printed up 100 static-cling decals (this is important as there was no possible way he was vandalizing or damaging property). They were matte charcoal grey so they blended into dark colours really nicely. They said “I have a tiny wiener”. He stuck them to brodozer trucks, just below the rear…

I’m guessing that puddle of drool is from a warped valve cover gasket.

How about the mercedes hyperscreen? They went over the top-50+ inches of screen that covers the entire front of the interior. Imagine the engineering that went into it and for what? To leave owners with a costly repair? Tons of distraction? Having to deal with software issues when trying to perform basic tasks? A…

probably an outlier but I think window switchers, cheapo Renaults have them on the center console so both driver and passenger have full time access, also cut the amount of wires for that purpose in half

The 2JZ is a legendary engine because they didn’t go cheap, or skimp out on stoutness even though they obviously could have.

There is a third button that toggles between front, rear, and both windows. And yes, that means all that added complexity actually only eliminated ONE button, not two.

The Freaking air intake lid on the GTI. most cars have a clip to remove. Not the GTI. it has 8 screws you have to unscrew but are setup in a way that they dont unscrew all the way but just loosen and stay in place in the shroud. First time you open it you keep twisting thinking the screws ill come out and they dont…

The current generation F-150 shift lever with the fold down function to make room for the flip over “work surface” center arm rest. Why not use the rotary shift selector like Ram trucks instead of adding this additional failure point?

I think that should be an option, but you should be able to change that radio out. We had DIN. It was great. Radio broke? Want a simpler one? Want one that’s fuck-off complicated? Great! Change it out!

“Jeep 4.0l straight 6,”      other than 10 miles of brittle vacuum pipes, Ts, and hoses ....

I’m not sure if this is true or not, however I was once told that the original OEM sunvisor brackets for the Jaguar XKE were hand-made from SIX individual pieces of metal:

Because I’ve recently had to deal with it, the seemingly endless number of clips, screws, plastic fasteners, etc. - many of different sizes and requiring different driver heads - just to remove a headliner board that maybe weighs 5 lbs with fabric attached. I swear I’ve taken walls down with fewer things holding them…

The Porsche LFA should be the header for this QOTD.