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I rent a lot of cars, so I usually have my own list of stuff that annoys me straight away.
Haptic controls vs buttons as appropriate. Displays are fine and can add a lot of flexibility, but as noted in many threads, some of the application is downright lazy and stupid, especially the stuff where it's haptic off a screen.
Climate control systems with manual temp selectors for L and R seats...but no sync button. If you're going go give the ability to do this with buttons, the sync should be there too.
Drive mode and CC-on settings that don't "remember" when you shut off the car. Drive mode is sometimes forgivable, but not when it is your preferred mode and you deem that to be fairly important to how the car acts, like it's the suspension setting you prefer that should be run all the time. CC-on is never forgivable, why the hell do I need to "turn it on" every time I start the car?
Camera-based ACC. This sucks balls compared to radar and while radar is not 100%, it's damn near in my experience in snow and wet weather, while camera is easily foiled by stupid shit like rain/snow/ice on the windshield and ****ing hills with signs on it for some reason. It seems like they do this to wrap lane-assist and ACC all into one, vs. having to have a separate radar. The one advantage of camera ACC is it can detect stationary objects, but that's not enough of an advantage when it won't even work in the first place, like in fog.
And on the same theme, not making lane-assist/keeping an on/off button easily identifiable and in-reach, rather than buried in some stupid menu/setting.
And on the CC theme, CCs that slow down for turns when the car is perfectly capable of taking the turn. I tried for a while to find where this was a setting on a Mazda and it just seemed to be integrated into it...I know other cars, cars I've owned, have it as a setting.
Granted, these are features, not vehicles, but I'm sure I could come up with a dozen more in a few minutes.
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Current: 2018 Camaro SS 1LE, 2023 Colorado ZR2. Former: BMW 428i Gran Coupe.
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