Modern car designs

You'd have to change the racks otherwise powerless hydraulic power steering is stupidly heavy. Heavier than a manual rack

Free workout...

>In my car the power steering pump is driven by the engine, I don't understand how it shuts off by pulling the fuse, the parasitic load persists anyway
If you don't remove all the hardware, your car will be carrying all that extra power steering rack weight as well. In my opinion, the safety benefit of power steering outweighs the mpg loss. I'd sure hate to try dodging an errant freeway driver or distracted city driver with only manual steering.

The other problem is your own driver reflexes if you don't have all your cars with manual steering. It's good to have your unthinking reflexes tuned to just power steering or manual steering. Mixing and matching different steering types makes it more difficult to have automatic quick reactions as if the car was part of your body.

I did, you need to rev it to death to move, it's annoying and loud for a commutebox
base model, that is

Go to Paris or Berlin or London and you will see why diesel fumes are annoying

My car steers fine with a dead pump(it's a hydraulic pump powered by a dedicated alternator, basically) I quite like the heavy steering because it feels like a truck

>the all smog comes from diesels meme

Diesel are easy to blame, all the metric tons of coal they burn hour-to-hour just behind don't ever count apparently. Let's assume tomorrow all cars have gone electric, booboo-diesel is gone forever. Now what, how can they pump enough electricity for a +100% demand increase? Burn more coal which makes diesel look like flowers in comparison.

>coal
But only filthy germans and english"men" use coal

Newer cars have so much documentation its actually fairly simple to work on them. My first vehicle was a 88 F150 and the only documentation readily available was your father or grandfathers lessons on how to nigger rig shit.