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Well, I've had my new Transit for a few weeks now. It's only done aound 3000 miles so far but what do I think of it? Let's put it this way, if I could have my old Transit back I would. So, what's wrong with the new one? Well, I still hate the 'square' steering wheel. The fuel tank is a lot smaller so have to fill up more often. Everything is done via the touch screen. By the time you find what you want to do you've forgotten what it is you wanted to do. Even simple things like altering the blower from the screen to your feet takes 5 presses of the screen. The sat nav keeps loosing it's signal. I was driving in the middle of the north sea a couple of weeks ago. Twice when I've got to within a couple of miles of my destination it's crashed on me. The lane control system gives me no confidence in narrow lanes. It detects the left side of the road and tries to turn me into the right side of the road. If I'm on twist roads it has to be turned off. Turning off auto stop start has to be done every time you turn the ignition on. The electric handbrake doesn't auto release as you pull off. The DAB reception is terrible. They have dropped the right hand wiper stalk. It's all now on one stalk on the left so a quick flick on the wiper isn't anymore and I usually end up indicating instead. Drivers seat belt isn't height adjustable and is too high for me. The door release for the passenger back door in now a push button which sometimes works on the first push, sometimes the second etc. They've taken away the USB socket on the top of the dash. It's now only by the gear stick so extra trailing USB lead to get tangled in things. And REALLY annoying is the bloody alarm randomly goes off in the night. Only the night though. On the plus side there's, um, well, I'll have to get back to you on that coz I can't think of anything.
 
It's white. What more can I say? It does have the company logos on it to break the 'whiteness' up a bit.
 
Ah, the dreaded auto stop/start thingy. I have this on my car and I hate it!
I often forget to switch it off. However, I am told that I can re-programme it so that it defaults to off, so I'd have to push the dash button to enable it again.
The problem is that I am useless with these menu-driven interfaces, so I'll have to find a 10 year old to fix it for me.
 
Not all vehicles can be programmed to turn that off via the onboard interface. My Mini for example needs an app and an a plug in interface to disable it. Was one of the first things I did when I bought the car.
 
These sorts of rubbish features were a big part of the reason I decided against buying a new car recently.
 
These sorts of rubbish features were a big part of the reason I decided against buying a new car recently.
The main reason I wouldn't buy a new van is I would have to spend more money, and it may outlast me.
 
These sorts of rubbish features were a big part of the reason I decided against buying a new car recently.
Fully agree! I've just bought what's probably the last 'new' car I shall ever buy. Built in 2004, and the last of the marque designed by engineers rather than accountants and 'stylists'.
Has all the useful tech, without the nannying stuff.
 
Not sure when they swapped over to wind up from sliding. I know the van kept sliding windows until they stopped making them. The wife used to have a '79 van back when we were young(ish). Wish we still had it now. It was metallic blue, white roof and bonnet stripes and alloys.
 
I bet a 21 year old would love it.
We're just old and want to pull levers rather than press buttons :)
 
I remember a school friend had an old triumph with sliding windows….

Get the old thing up to speed, and the windows rattled open themselves.

One solitary wing mirror… actually on the wing, not on a door.

No radio… at all. Not even an 8 track.

Speedo only went up to 80 or 90…. And the top speed he got out of it was “something past the top”
 

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