10 years on..reasons why I bought my car which I didn’t even know then

I bought my manual 430 spider 10 years ago, when it was 10 years old.

today I took her shopping for some domestic stuff and here are things I would not have even thought of 10 years ago that I enjoy about the car:

- physical instruments in an actual font
- a real metal bezel around the tacho
- no screen of any type
- no driver aids to turn off except the manettino
- no lane assist, no auto stall, no steering wheel vibrate
- actual connection between steering wheel and wheels
- no electric or turbo help with the engine
- no remote unlocking of doors as you approach

and one I did know about:

- a real manual gear-lever

and, something harder to describe: a feeling of raw physicality which its successor the 458, then alll the rage, does not have
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I would agree, specially about the quad lights.