Having to drive a hire car because mine is at the garage waiting for Vauxhall to order parts whose ETA is "when the cows come home" I have been really struggling with this new concept. Sort of like driving a WWII spitfire. The fun of sliding the wheel through your fingers just doesn't happen...
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Now call me Jeremy Clarkson but wasn't the "Quartic Wheel" a failed 1973 British Leyland experiment that went down like HMS Hood with the consumer? So what wally decided to bring it back? Apparently the idea is to make the instrument panel easier to see? Really who looks at that? My plug in satnav tells me what speed I'm going and us still better than the onboard one which wouldn't allow me to program it (without an exorbitant subscription)...
On the Ford I drove it was all pointless touchscreens and LCD panels ...why? How inconvenient is it to have to use a touchscreen to change the canon fan speed, rather than just turning dials and pulling levers?
Top of the list of backwards innovations was not having an ignition key so you start the car with a button and have to remember to turn it off and if you don't it flattens the battery. I was thinking at 72,000 miles it was time to say goodbye to my Corsa D but this experience of backwards innovation has determined me to stick it out and wait for the parts to come by surface mail and continue to make-do-and-mend...
And people wonder why British Manufacturing is dying....
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