OLD SCHOOL

There are now more boats than ever before on the water with electronic engine management for their diesel engines, offering up info such as real-time fuel flow and range-to-empty. Heck, even I now have a car with EFI, central locking and an engine immobiliser, not to mention my first automatic transmission in 35 years.

But my work vehicle, a 1991 Mitsubishi Triton, is carburetted and all manual. The reasoning behind this is that should this vehicle break down, I can quickly fix it with minimal expense. I shudder to think how expensive the 1999 Corolla I was recently given would be to fix, if it had an engine management computer failure or issues