Ash is in hospital

Got the new car today...Our youngest daughter came around this afternoon with her new friend, she gave Debra the go around for all the controls inside the car, keyless ignition and push button start, has all the gismos, the owner manual is as thick as a bible over 700 pages and another book just for the navigation system...
6 months in, and I STILL can't get used to Sally's Lexus sedan that she bought slightly used from her sister.

*&^%$#@ thing keeps trying to drive itself while I AM TRYING TO DRIVE IT!

I set the cruise on 80, if there is a car on the same road a mile ahead, it slows to 50.

I'm cruising along near the lane stripe and the bloody thing jerks over 5 feet so I won't cross it.

NO THANK YOU! I'll stick to my 10-year-old truck, it's quite nice enough, much nicer than the one I was perfectly happy with that was 20 years old and has just under a quarter-million miles...
 
6 months in, and I STILL can't get used to Sally's Lexus sedan that she bought slightly used from her sister.

*&^%$#@ thing keeps trying to drive itself while I AM TRYING TO DRIVE IT!

I set the cruise on 80, if there is a car on the same road a mile ahead, it slows to 50.

I'm cruising along near the lane stripe and the bloody thing jerks over 5 feet so I won't cross it.

NO THANK YOU! I'll stick to my 10-year-old truck, it's quite nice enough, much nicer than the one I was perfectly happy with that was 20 years old and has just under a quarter-million miles...
Yeah that is what I am worried about but the good thing most of all that stuff can be turned off on this Honda and only use the stuff you might want to use as the car is 6 years old, the newer Honda's might be different and can't turn that stuff off.
Reading the bible size manual it took 500 pages of all the BS they write in owners manuals before I got to the main stuff of starting the car and the important stuff about driving it, I still got 200 pages to go and coming up to the stuff about maintenance, the important stuff, then once I read that I got to read up on the navigation system, I prob will get more lost using that GPS system than when I never had to use one before, I always knew where I was going, when riding the bikes I found a lot of great riding roads being lost lol.
But as I am now getting older and the Honda to us is a luxury car and down the road I am looking at doing a few long trips in it, the good thing as well has a tow bar so it will tow the trailer that I have set up for camping and being a station wagon it be good for a comfortable bed in the back if we need to stop overnight anywhere, on long trips in the old Landy rolling the swag out in the back tray I done many of times.
I driven trucks, old cars and older 4x4s all my life, it's about time to live life a bit more comfortable and is also the first auto that I have ever owned, it also has sports drive so that be interesting and being turbo could be fun.
My 2016 Thruxton had all the gismos on it and was always kept in sport mode it was a fun bike to ride and handle as near as good as the light weight Commando/Featherbed with a bit more HP, I miss that bike, but I enjoyed the Norton more so that will do me, just got to watch out for them bloody Rab 4, they bite.

Ashley
 
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