Why the hell are infotainment systems in cars so laggy and their monitors have such awful refresh rates...

i have an S10. get the 6 cylinder. rock solid engine, rock solid transmission, super fucking simple, and super cheap. engine dies just toss another used one in. same with the transmission. do not, please do not, get the 4 cylinder, and if you have to get the 4 cylinder, make sure it has the automatic transmission. the both engines share the automatic tranny, and its rock solid, but they have different manual transmissions. the NV1500 (comes with the 4 cylinder) is a pile of shit. the NV3500 (comes with 6 cylinder) is super solid too.

youtube.com/watch?v=MVjphhV5Tec

Toyota hilux (carb model) with x220 touchpad
or toughbook if you plan on being on fire

How sad to think that a brand new entertainment system is beaten in responsiveness and ease of use by a 3.5mm to cassette tape adaptor in my 30 year old car.

I still don't know how these screens haven't been banned when the law is so anal about mobile phone use.

I wasn't using infotainment as a reason to shit on modern cars as a whole. I hate them for all the reasons the other user said, and because they genuinely feel worse. Drive-by-wire steering feels like SHIT. Absolute dog shit. Now I'll admit I haven't driven any modern high-end sports cars, but I've driven plenty of my friends' regular modern cars and the steering makes me want to vomit. You can't feel the road at all, it just feels like you're playing a video game on a cheap Walmart steering wheel peripheral. Also I'm triggered that manuals are slowly dying out because I don't like driving autos.

Unless you're getting a classic Beetle, DO NOT GET ONE. Not if you're wanting something easy and cheap to maintain. I drive a Turbo S and it's pretty fun and I love it, but it is literally impossible to work on. Trust me, this is not something you want to work on unless you like having to take the front end of the car off.

I had an old Volkswagen Jetta, and it's a complete cluster fuck under the hood. I thought Germans were supposed to be efficient. Get a Honda.

I think you've confused "efficient" with "cheap and easy to maintain". These are not the same things. These are not the same things at all.

While i agree that modern VW cars are universally shit, (if youre in the US, just fucking buy domestic or japanese, stay away from european unless you like being raped in the ass by parts prices), people make cars out to be these mythical beasts, when in reality they arent. all cars need the same shit to work. doesnt matter if its chevy, or a honda, or a bmw, they all work the same way. they all need fuel, electricity, cooling, etc. all engines are gonna have an alternator, a power steering pump (99% of the time), an AC compressor (99% of the time), a water pump (literally 99% of the time barring old VW and Porche engines), if its a longitudinal engine theyre gonna have a fan and fan clutch. there's always gonna be an intake manifold, and depending on if its an inline engine or a V or boxer engine theyre gonna have 1 or 2 exhaust manifolds, theyre all gonna have a throttle body, and if they have EFI theyre gonna have a fuel rail, if not then a carburetor. most likely theyre gonna have some form of EGR, and maybe an aux air system. they make have a distributor or a coil pack, but either way theyre all gonna have spark plugs. i highly suggest every user to rip apart a car, and then rip apart a different one, and see how many things are the same. shit just looks different.

addendum: all cars are gonna have brakes, whether theyre drum or disk, and theyre all gonna have hydrolic lines that lead to them. more likely than not, the lines are gonna lead to the engine bay to the ABS, which in turn leads to the master cylinder and brake booster. if it doesnt have an ABS then itll just skip that step. all cars are gonna have a fuel tank, and most of the time the fuel pump will be located in it. there will usually be a feed line, a return line, and in most cases (see: modern cars) a vapor line.