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I have a manual 2003 Golf TDI (purchased in 2003; has a tape deck!) that's slowly rusting, and I'm not looking forward to when I have to replace it.

I don't have a garage/drive way, and so have to park on the street, which makes me leans towards another short [1] vehicle: currently thinking about VW Golf, Mazda 3, Mazda CX-30, Kia Niro.

From what I've seen from almost all cars, lots more screens and lots fewer buttons.

[1] https://www.carsized.com/en/

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Yeah I have 2002 Honda accord and I’m dreading the day I need to get a modern car. My wife has a 2021 car and there is not a single feature it has that is necessary. In fact, many of them are actively bad. I’ve been driving every day, accident free, for 20 years and have never once needed lane assist, attention tracking or whatever the fuck. I wish there was a car that just had no additional ‘features’ beyond actual mechanical/efficiency improvements.

Then these features are not for you.

They are for your kids when a distracted driver would crush their small skull with a 3T SUV.

Now that's a spurious "Won't somebody think of the children!" cry right there...

> Then these features are not for you.

Which could (maybe) be fine if they could be permanently turned off (and not reset-to-on on every startup). Heck, even if it was a dealership-only change it would be something.

See recent driving 4 answers video on the silliness of some of these features:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-S76WEl25k

An alert that causes you to look down every time to enter an intersection/roundabout when you most need to be looking up? Warnings when you put on sunglasses?

thankfully most of the mid-2010's I've driven haven't been bad

Mazda managed to avoid the touch screen plague until relatively recently. Their latest models seem to have adopted Android based infotainment with touchscreens though. I've got a CX-5 that's 3 years old and it's pleasingly touch screen free. Also the driver aids are mild and unintrusive.

Just get a golf 6 or 7 (can be had without any of the nanny features).

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