>The European manufacturers never could figure out car ventilation >systems, and only recently are they getting better. I think they just >figured you could open the windows. Invariably they are poorly thought >out and confusing. The Vanagon, however, wins the prize for the most >obtuse controls and documentation I've ever encountered.
Why oh why couldn't they just bite the bullet and copy the Japanese? They finally learned from our Asian friends how to position the window switches (on the doors, not tossed in the general direction of the transmission/exhaust tunnel). And also why do the Euro cheapskates keep fitting LHD column switches to RHD cars? DANGEROUS! The Japanese make column switches for particular sides of the road... so the light switch is always toward the driver's door.
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