text: A friend of mine was showing me around his new SUV. When it came to some of the convenient"cool", but hardly necessary bells and whistles, he was genuinely surprised when my response was "meh." My dinosaur station wagon , now 14 years old with 124,500 km on the clock, has computerized fuel/engine management and door locking. The latter is now screwing up as I can no longer open the rear doors with the key fob. At least it still has keyholes on the driver's door and rear gate, unlike the Tesla parked next door.