# Let's build the perfect car! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 14, 2016, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-build-the-perfect-car/765905 "2016-09-14T02:11:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2016, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-build-the-perfect-car/765905/41 "2016-09-20T01:04:03Z")
If now is not enough trouble as it is, you want to try then? FTN. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2016, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-build-the-perfect-car/765905/42 "2016-09-20T01:08:01Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > If now is not enough trouble as it is, you want to try then? FTN. I figure I can sell them at nerdcons. ---
**Author:** ![D.E.S.K.Top668](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@D.E.S.K.Top668](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D.E.S.K.Top668)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2016, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-build-the-perfect-car/765905/43 "2016-09-24T02:40:30Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > Sorry, that won’t do. I forgot to mention the requirement that it have 4 doors. Well, it really doesn’t fit the compact part, but the [Jeep Wrangler is probably the only current 4-door convertible SUV](http://www.jeepcurrentoffers.com/wrangler-unlimited/?year=2016&sid=1037056&KWNM=wrangler+4+door&KWID=43700005982723449&TR=2&channel=paidsearch&gclid=COHot577ps8CFULbDQodRZEL8Q&gclsrc=ds) As for the perfect car, I’m actually of two completely opposite minds. I either want to be in total control (like my Honda, above) or I want a safe, totally autonomous vehicle that I can get into and sleep/read/whatever and ignore the road until it’s parked at my destination. ---
**Author:** ![Snorri\_Thorfinnsson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@Snorri\_Thorfinnsson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snorri_Thorfinnsson)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2016, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-build-the-perfect-car/765905/44 "2016-09-24T03:43:54Z")
I would want to copy this with a better engine: [![](http://www.conceptcarz.com/images/Fascination/74_Fascination_2Dr_DV_07_CC_07.jpg) ](http://www.conceptcarz.com/images/Fascination/74_Fascination_2Dr_DV_07_CC_07.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2016, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-build-the-perfect-car/765905/45 "2016-09-24T06:04:40Z")
> [@Snorri\_Thorfinnsson](#): > > I would want to copy this with a better engine: > > [http://www.conceptcarz.com/images/Fascination/74\_Fascination\_2Dr\_DV\_07\_CC\_07.jpg](http://www.conceptcarz.com/images/Fascination/74_Fascination_2Dr_DV_07_CC_07.jpg) [too many wheels](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbdkZB9-Sd4) ---
**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2016, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-build-the-perfect-car/765905/46 "2016-09-24T06:38:15Z")
Must have removable roof - see '55-'57 TBird - a hard shell and a rag top are interchangeable. With carbon fiber construction, the hard shell could end up at about 50 lbs - including the sliding tinted glass sun/moon roof. Yes, wing AND cowl vents - and they are manually operated as God and Henry Ford dictated. The entertainment is mounted atop the console, on a swivel mount so either seat has easy access. Roof mount of the box also acceptable. Tesla has a cute idea with ‘over-the-air’ software updates. Hackers are drooling. Software updates are by thumb drives, sent overnight to both owner of record and nearest dealer/sales office. Only with the owner’s physical key can the car accept the update. The steering wheel has had its day. Side-mounted stick(s). Maybe have sockets on both sides, so those who want to “give the wheel” to the passenger no longer needs to do that song and dance - yes, there could be cases where both sockets have sticks (Air France) - the car accepts inputs from only the stick selected by the driver - it can be a switch with a locking cover, if some buyer needs to control that. CVT gear boxes now can have the speed and braking controlled by the stick - push forward to accelerate, pull back to slow/stop. Fixed seats are a problem - folding seats give you flat surface but hog volume. ALL seats are easily swapped in/out - third-party specialized seat will be offered in any configuration you want. Yes, give a basic set of seats with the car. Again, new fabrication techniques can bring seats in at near-trivial weights. And yes, an impossible-to-ignore-if-occupied infant/child seats will solve that problem. ---
**Author:** ![AtomicDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@AtomicDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtomicDog)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2016, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-build-the-perfect-car/765905/47 "2016-09-25T23:15:42Z")
A Tesla. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-build-the-perfect-car/765905/48 "2016-09-26T11:51:25Z")
> [@AtomicDog](#): > > A Tesla. There’s always one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-build-the-perfect-car/765905.md?page=2)