<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp4f3699c2yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;">What's with the New Cars? (Question from an over-40 year Squareback owner.)</div><div class="ydp4f3699c2yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div class="ydp4f3699c2yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;">- No easy radio turn dials so you don't have to take eyes off the road.</div><div class="ydp4f3699c2yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;">- No wing vents, so you don't blow hats off those in back seat to get some air....or vent cig smoke.<br></div><div class="ydp4f3699c2yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;">- Many newer cars slope down in front, as if ready to dig into an embankment.</div><div class="ydp4f3699c2yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;">- No "sacrifice" bumpers, easier and cheaper to replace/repair than the whole front or rear end.</div><div class="ydp4f3699c2yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;">- No front bench seats. (Not that T-3s have them.)<br></div><div class="ydp4f3699c2yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;">- No glass headlight lenses...which don't cloud up like the new designer-shaped plastic versions.</div><div class="ydp4f3699c2yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;">- Many are so low to the ground that one couldn't get over a curb, steep driveway, or bump in a lawn.</div><div class="ydp4f3699c2yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;">- No hubcaps...replaced by "spoked" stylish, , silvery, expensive wheel rims.</div><div class="ydp4f3699c2yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;">- No colors to speak of. Most cars are colorless gray, white, black, "silver", or dull reds, greens, etc.</div><div class="ydp4f3699c2yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;">- No proper size spare tires to just change to if needed.</div><div class="ydp4f3699c2yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;">- And....most cars are oversize, taking up parking space, hard to find parking, and impossible to push out of snowdrifts, etc.</div><div class="ydp4f3699c2yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div class="ydp4f3699c2yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;">These are not "volks" (people-friendy, people-fixable) 'wagens". <br></div><div class="ydp4f3699c2yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> <br></div></body></html>