Silk wrote:I think most people would like a nice car in the same way they would like a nice house. You don't hear people say they have an exiting house.
In different wording I think that they do...
Isn't it the same when comparing a modern boring, but warm / cheap to run new build with an older house with beams / period features / thatched roof / aga in the kitchen etc... they don't refer to it as exciting, but they might say it is full of character?
I have a rayburn in my kitchen - there is no way in which it is a sensible decision on paper - more expensive to run, very expensive to buy, requires annual servicing which my gas cooker doesn't need - but it is full of character, brings the house alive and apparently puts more value on the house than it cost to install! - same principle, and we can see it everywhere - fountain pens v. biro / manual or automatic wristwatch v. battery powered smart watch / ikea furniture v. hand built... the list goes on...
ultimately there is a place for both, modern soul-less efficiency and characterful, but possibly flawed - when you get character and efficient modernity in one package, then that can be a car worth having
Alasdair