Confusingly similar?

Ever since the early days of motoring, the idea of engines being any more efficient, brilliant or technologically advanced than they are of the moment’ has been as alien as the notion that anything more complicated would be within the skills of a half-decent mechanic.

We’ve seen it in Car Mechanics many times - from concerns around understanding electronic ignition and fuel injection systems in the Seventies to the advent of ECUs and modular electronics in the Eighties and Nineties, where the prospect of maintaining your car began to sound more and more complex. But we’re a resourceful bunch, and very quickly we worked these things out. Indeed, fuel injection, ECUs, drive-by-wire control systems and plug-and-play wiring looms have since made life easier for mechanics in some ways, if not others.

Yes, in engineering terms a Morris Minor may be blindingly simple. But driving one in modern traffic isn’t. That’s why cars and engines/drivetrains have evolved over the years and why