Honda made a version of the Prelude which could sort of do that.
I want a steering wheel that is like my bicycle, which will be a challenge to integrate wth the doors: the seats will be attached to the doors so that, to get in and out, you rotate the entire assembly 90° and step straight in/out.
You don’t understand. They’re on EVERY car.
I want the"electroluminescent" dashboard lights, instrument dome and pushbutton transmissionfrom my 1962 Chrysler.
My dad had to replace the dash coil on a 65 Charger because the electroluminescent paint had stopped luminescing.
Four wheel drive Rolls-Royce pickup truck with a belt-fed fully automatic 10 gauge shotgun mounted in a rotating turret.
My, we’re a vindictive bunch, aren’t we? Gun turrets, bird-killing lasers, tar guns…I love it!
My husband says he wants his car to have a rear window that slowly becomes reflective the longer someone is riding his tail or doesn’t turn their high beams off. That way the regular drivers can pass him with no problems but the Amazing Wonder Assholes will slowly become blinded.
I want floor fresh air vents back along with the window vents.
When the Toronado was introduced, one of its highly touted features was its flat floor, front and rear, without the transmission tunnel taking up interior space. Same for the rear-engine Corvair and '61–'63 Pontiac Tempests, which had a front engine with a rear transaxle long before any Porsche. Now that most cars are FWD like the '67 Toronado, what do they do? They put in huge consoles where the transmission tunnel would have been!
BMW already makes (well, made) the perfect car. The e30.
Retractable 3-foot spikes that you can extend from the front as needed, usually around dusk. Because that deer is going to die anyway, why let it damage your car?
Well, that lowers your options to pretty much this
I’m slowly (re)building my perfect car. 1999 Civic. No power anything; brakes, steering, windows, locks. 5-speed manual. No radio, minimal computer.
we had those, (actually 5 mph) in the late '70s/early '80s. they were enormous and heavy, and didn’t make cars any safer. if “10 mph” collisions are a problem for you, you might want to re-evaluate your driving skills.
Just bumpers, old-fashioned ordinary bumpers so that hitting a car whie parallel parking doesn’t result in several hundred dollar repair bills.
Am I the only one who misses those skinny steering wheels that didn’t have 12 feet of padding or leather around it?
how about “Don’t hit other cars while parallel parking?”
Sorry, that won’t do. I forgot to mention the requirement that it have 4 doors.
You are not. There are even people alive today who miss the steering wheels that did not have a suitcase-sized blob of airbag in the middle of them.
But I still think side-stick/underseat steering would be an awesome improvement.
Bacon.
The Perfect Car must be Bacon-centric.
A trunkful of flux capacitors.