My Mom’s 1991 Mercury Sable suddenly looks like a prepper asset. Kept indoors for two decades, very low mileage, simple systems, runs great & probably somewhat EMP resistant.
My wife’s SRX has all the latest bells & whistles and thinks it’s smarter than me though that’s no great achievement.
We are too chip dependent. Way too dependent on chips. Mom said her new microwave oven was driving her crazy with all the programming menus, boop-boop-boop, etc. I spruced up the original 1976 Sharp microwave that was a wedding gift to us & gave it back (wife & I have a brand new kitchen). Mom is ecstatic; the Sharp has a power setting lever, a mechanical timer, and that’s it. Works like a champ.
“Newer is not always better”
An Edsel plays an important role in the book I referenced in #20, above.
“probably somewhat EMP resistant.”
Every car is solar-flare EMP resistant.
Where will you get gas for it? Electronics are needed to pump gas from a service station into the car, to deliver it to the service station, to pump it out of the ground in the first place, to refine it into gasoline, to pay for the work at every step in the process...No, I think that when you've used up whatever small reserves of gasoline you can store on your property, you'll be motionless like everyone else.
Me, I'm glad I have access to horses. And I am packing to move further out into the countryside where I can survive better.
To be realistic, after an EMP event I wouldn't last too long, as I'm a lady in her late middle years, on my own, and I need medication to live. A single person can't defend a homestead for long. Stocking up on my meds only prolongs the inevitable, but I will fight it out as long as I can.