I drive and depend on my old smudgepot because it frees up my time for hobbies.
Advantages:
No one wants to steal it.
It gets good fuel economy and runs well enough to keep bugs from smashing themselves against the REAR windshield
Easy to repair and parts are reasonably inexpensive.
Damn near invisible to the "revenue generators".
DEPENDABLE !! Once I got everything working the only thing I have to deal with is normal maintenance.