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Originally Posted by Hugh R
Look at my Carrera, it has a DME brain, it isn't going to be a classic in 50 years. My old Aston Martin DB4 had plugs, points, rotor, coil and condenser, you could fix it 100 years from now. It didn't have one chip, diode, transistor, in it. It did have a few coil-wound relays.
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Yep.
This is precisely why I'll keep my '74 Targa until I die, then will it to my son. I love the sheer simplicity of it. The most complicated electronic circuitry in it is the CDI (not that complicated at all).
My 944s have DMEs but they're simple enough to diagnose myself if I need to. When it comes to electronic doohickeys in cars, it's a lot like plastic - "less is more". Give me a METAL car with leather/cloth/metal interior, no electronics, no radio and an open road and I'll smile all day long - far more so than plodding along in traffic in a modern $70,000 gizmo-barge with 150+ fuses and enough wiring to reach from NYC to London.
Yes, modern cars can do some cool things, but I GREATLY prefer the raw, viceral, "real" sense of actually driving and making the machinery an extension of myself. It's much like riding a motorcycle or flying an airplane. When that sensation gets masked by layers and layers of stability controls, ABS, automated this-and-that, adapative everything - it just loses something and becomes no different and little more exciting than sitting at a computer terminal.
It's nice to perform a task that actually requires SKILL to perform. No skill required = no satisfaction.