Tend to agree with you Paddy, spoiling them.
My daughter's, (3 of them), all had much better first car's than me, they had air con and power steer as well.They were used 4 cyl's as such, but hey, air con is a luxury. My first car was a 69, 4 cyl torana, with no heater and no radio, but it got me to work at least.