I miss the older car nothing you could not fix for yourself on them so easy to work on too
I drive a '98 Windstar, now. I can change the fluids myself, but that's about it. It costs me almost three hundred dollars to have a mechanic change the plugs, for instance. It has a transversally mounted, "computer operated," V-6 and front wheel drive. You can not reaxch the plugs without a lift and removal of some other pieces - even an engine mount must be loosened!
The brakes are even a bitch to replace.
Fortunately, I have not had any trouble with it which was not considered attributable to periodic maintenance on a ten year old vehicle with almost two hundred thousand miles on it.
I think I bought a bike, today, though. A guy at work has an old one (we've talked several times, already about it) and I haven't seen it yet, but the price is in my budget. If his description is anywhere near the true mark of its condition, it's minen!
[/sorry if I missed any more typos - rough day so far]