Now we have "Check Engine" lights that go on if you don't click the fuel cap 3 times after fill-ups, ABS and TCS lights that go on for no apparent reason, really sucky electrics with mini-fuses smaller than the white crescent of a fingernail which requires a trained hummingbird to change, AND absolutely NO ROOM in the engine compartment for anybody bigger than 6'1 in which to actually do any work. Too many components have to be removed in order to reach the one that's acting up.
Yeah, today's cars really are all that and a bag of chips. I'm with Wullie and Furcifer. Heck, I've used a pair of pantyhose as an emergency water pump belt -- try that in lieu of a serpentine belt sometime and tell me how that works for you. And when the timing belt -- belt, not chain -- snaps after a measly 50k miles and sends a valve shooting straight up through the hood, just how much HP is that fancy new engine generating?