DanMan was speaking of Coronas and Corollas. And common! I was just asking for a little common sense, not "picky, picky." "" Read"" the darn posts. I meant that an awfull lot of cars have been equipped with "most of this stuff" for a lot of years. I just named the one I knew about, I'm sure you could find a hundred others! It is well known that 58 model anything did not even have seat belts unless you bought them from JC Whitney and put them in yourself. (air-bags, wow.) But power steering, power brakes, power windows, power seats, auto transmissions, and power convertible tops go way, way, back. That 58 Buick even had an accurate fuel guage and a working set of instruments. And no flashing pips or warning lights on the fuel guage. When the needle got to "E" you were walking. And I never heard of anyone ...... " running out of gas."