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Reply to "Cup Holders, Part Deux....."

@edsnova posted:

I've said before how marvelous and extraordinary even the most basic cars of recent vintage are, when compared to the offerings of 30 years ago, and much of that is ergonomics. You hop into a Hyundai Sonata or Toyota Camry and things are where they ought to be, no matter if you're 5-1 or 6-7, 88 pounds or 388. That's amazing.

Even the cheap interior bits feel better and last way longer than the vinyl dashboards and seats we endured in our glory days. Praise materials science! Praise polymer chemistry! Honestly, when was the last time any of you took a modern car seat to an upholsterer because the seam split?

It's all so damn much better we want to go back to the '50s!

—except we don't.

Half of us on here spend most of our spare time and energy trying to make our clown cars more like our DDs!

Can I get an amen?

I love how absurd the featured cup holders are. They are cutely and niftily stupid.

Nothing like the feeling I'd get if someone did a similar review/critique of those ubiquitous center console TV touch screens, with their nine layers of menus to remotely adjust the passenger A/C gimbal vent. Frustrating, pointless and a legit safety hazard: one of the very few areas where modern cars have become measurably worse.

What's even more bizarre is jumping in a 70's MB with perfect MB Tex seats.

Last summer, I couldn't figure out why my Transistions lenses weren't transitioning in my ML. UV blocking glass. Saves the dash, neccesitates sunglasses.

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