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I have a '97 Jeep Cherokee.
The turn signals don't click off automatically, it has no A/C, and the automatic transmission sticks (or whatever, I don't know, I'm not a car person lol), so when accelerating from a stop your have to put the car into first manually and then put it into Drive, otherwise it will be stuck in like 3rd when trying to take off.
'Merica.
Well, that's just par for the course with a 16-year-old car, 'Merican or no
In college, I drove a 12-year-old Chevy Chevette. Rusted out floorboard under the clutch, not a single working gauge on the dash, and the rusty tailpipe broke one night coming home from the movies. I'm sure it was sparking dramatically as it dragged along the asphalt. I had to hitch it up with a wire coat hanger until I could get it fixed. The clutch decided that it was going to start slipping just as I was making a left turn across three lanes of traffic (there were no cars when I made the turn and got stuck in the middle lane, but then the light turned and they all headed towards me. Luckily, the clutch slipped back in long enough to get me home!)
But I also used to drive an 8-year-old VW Dasher (yes, this was a long time ago. It was a '79 and I drove it the summer of '88.) The gauges were broken, the ignition was faulty and I had to hotwire it until my father wired it to a button on the dash (which apparently is now all the rage), the horn didn't work either until my father wired it to a second button on the dash. The headlights would randomly cut out, but they could be shocked back on by opening up a door and slamming it shut (while moving, of course). The window crank gave up the ghost one day as I was sitting at a red light - it just shot right across the cabin. Oh, and it was a diesel, so it went 0-60 in about 3.2 minutes flat. Of course, when I did finally get it moving, it cornered great and had a fun little racing clutch.