Ah, to drive a car that is not an appliance. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:
How much would you pay to be able to buy and drive a brand-new 1995 Honda Accord EX? Does $24k sound reasonable? Vern Eide Honda in Sioux Falls, South Dakota had one for sale – and it’s apparently already been sold.
No wonder.
The time-capsule ’95 Accord – which had about 2,300 miles on the clock and clearly has been kept as-new for the past almost 30 years – had or offered everything the new Accord doesn’t – including a V6 engine and a standard manual transmission.
A pull-up emergency brake.
It also didn’t have everything the new Accord has – including “advanced driver assistance technology.” The ’95 assumed you could drive if you were behind the wheel. People who needed “assistance” could get handicapped-equipped cars.
It did not have an LCD touchscreen. It did not have direct injection or turbo or a continuously variable transmission. It had a cable connecting the accelerator pedal to the throttle, so that you rather than a computer made the engine rev.
My 2001 standard drive Maxima SE has 170,000 miles now and is still running beautifully.