Not being able to see properly out of a car with your own eyes is absurd quite frankly.

Ever tried moving your head a bit ??

Big Smiley...

I can appreciate that you might want to move your head to see around the chimney on a traction engine, but I thought a windscreen was designed to look through :-)

My new car has an eCall/SOS button where old car had sunglasses holder.

The usable space has been lost in name of safety.

Also, I can't figure out how the door pockets are now smaller in a larger car (Sportage) compared to older but smaller car (Ceed).

The new Toyota CHR i another, how do you see out of the rear window? I suppose the reasoning is a rear view camera. A very useful sensor in this day and age would be to prevent the drunks and druggies even starting their cars. The smell of drugs existing cars is all too familiar and you cannot even see the driver who is vaping

Yes, I agree with you the pleasure of motoring is long gone.

Corax is spot on, my recent experience using a Civic for a few weeks reflects exactly what he says, whilst a decent enough car the lack of 180' vision in particular was unpleasant having spent so many years driving vehicles designed to see out of.

We've seen and enjoyed the best years of motoring, the pleasure is fast disappearing.

That's why I still like to drive my 205 .... :-)

Tend to agree. My first car...Viva HB had very little in the way of gizmos. Don't think it had a tachometer or clock but loved driving it.