There’s a lot to be said for familiarity. We all find brands that we prefer. Mines BMW and, having moved away from them, I wish that we hadn’t. Having driven a few EVs I didn’t want one and the iX1 and iX2 were the only BMW choices at the time. In hindsight, we should have left the scheme at that stage and bought an ICE BMW privately.
The other thing I have learned is that whilst I really like some modern technical features (blind spot assist etc), I really dislike others, especially when accompanied by incessant bings and bongs, which I find to be far more distracting than the issues that they are trying to prevent. Unfortunately we chose a Hyundai, a brand which absolutely loves bings and bongs, including some that you have absolutely no idea whatsoever what they are telling you 🤬
The other thing that I miss is a CD player. I just loved the system on my 2015 BMW 5 Series where it had a 20GB hard drive and when you played a CD you could add it to the hard drive. I had all my favourites on there and could call them up without any issues at all. No connectivity issues, not reliant on your mobile phone, no error messages – all of which blight our current car and mean that I now listen mostly to the radio!
I am currently finding myself browsing the used car market for a nice BMW that predates some of this rather annoying ‘progress’ 😂