All new cars have screens since reverse cameras are mandatory. You’ll have to shop on the used car market.

May I present Coretti Cruisers restomods. Prime example: https://x.com/washghost1/status/1994198208545714472

Cost roughly $150K

To be fair, I have a 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee. It was the first year of their then new model rollout for the GC. It was (as I understand it) the last of the Mercedes JGCs.

I love this thing, it's a "cold dead hands" kind of car for me. Only has 120k-ish miles on it.

I won't say it's my last car ever, I just have a hard time visualizing swapping it out for anything.

It starts, all the buttons work, it's cosmetically 95%. The single biggest issue is that last year it was down for a couple of months simply because of parts availability. It's not unreliable, but it's swapped a few things (water pump, radiator, A/C has had work twice, guess it's a bit notorious in the community). Purchased in 2013, it's a 12 year old car.

But waiting months for suspension components (air suspension, which I adore) was a real drag. Even with a dealer supplied rental.

That would be the thing that sends me over the edge long term, I think.

It'll be a shame when it happens, I love the car.

The dealer wants to buy it every time I take it in for routine maintenance.

What if, instead of just attempting to retreat into a shrinking world that will eventually disappear, we all collectively worked together to fix things?

People drive 70 year old cars today. Just buy a sensible car from sometime before the 2020s, keep up with it and put on 400k miles on it.

My 2016 Corolla seems to be the last year without a SIM (it does have a screen but whatever it just shows me what's playing on the stereo), but despite a Corolla being bulletproof and me rarely driving anymore, i do still wonder whether i can get away with this car forever or if I'll have to buy some spyware carriage someday

black construction paper?