Lack of storage comfort?
05/20/2017
It is actually surprising that modern car test reports do not assess the criterion of "traffic jam comfort", or at most indirectly. After all, we are constantly stuck somewhere in our modern cars, waiting for things to move on. This is when talents come into play that have little to do with chassis or dynamic handling, but rather with a feel-good atmosphere, entertainment electronics quality, thermal comfort and the like. Other criteria would be low-speed drivability, starting comfort, brake sensitivity and, of course, the insensitivity of the engine and drive to overheating. All these criteria could then be summarized under stowage comfort.
And it is precisely this congestion comfort that the old cars (in comparison to modern vehicles) lack quite considerably, which is an argument for many classic car owners to do without their beloved and cherished car when a city trip is due or a longer journey through congested areas. And you can understand it. Anyone who has ever been stuck in a slow-moving traffic jam at the Gotthard, started to doubt the resilience of the clutch and watched the water temperature rise steadily, knows what I'm talking about here. When the sun heats up the interior to 50 degrees and unpleasant smells from the technology start to spread, the pleasure turns into a fight for survival. And all this is only because traffic jam comfort was rarely a selling point in the past, even though it was perfectly possible to get stuck in a traffic jam 50 or more years ago.
