Rear seat DVD player. Even when I was dating a woman with kids, they use their phones/tablets instead of the dinky 8" screen hanging from the ceiling.
Otherwise, it's a 2004 so fairly simple and I spend a ton of time in it. I use nearly all the features, and rarely find myself wishing for anything it doesn't have. Even features I scorned initially (sunroof, automatic mode on the climate control, cruise control, hands free calling (answering, really)) I now have come to appreciate.
My daily driver is a 27 year old Corolla. It's a little basic to say the least. Everything gets used.
OK, I must be the weird one, I love my heated seats and sunroof. Granted, I wish my XR4Ti didn't a sunroof for more helmet room but I still use it all the time.
CD player never gets used in any of our cars.
Glass sunroof on my MINI Cooper. I actually made up black shades to completely block. I also made a plywood load floor to go from the tailgate to the front seat. Back seat hasn't been used in 16 years.
In reply to DeadSkunk (Warren) :
I have suction-cup shades on my R53 sunroof. I've been meaning to put a wrap or something on the underside of the glass. The A/C can barely keep up as it is. If I removed the shades, it'd be an oven in there.
Golf R:
CD player (Bluetooth)
back seat (always folded down for the dogs that own the car)
Karmann Ghia:
back seat (always folded)
radio (oh wait what radio)
Tacoma:
The bed (sad but true. wife wonders why we have a truck. It is her winter DD though.)
CD/Tape player
Cayman S:
CD player/trunk changer. (Soul Performance exhaust on a flat 6 is heaven)
PASM Off (It's a sports car, WhyTF would I turn off the sport suspension?)
CX-5
Cooled seats. It actually makes me nauseous using them.
I love heated seats, though.
I only use my sunroof to crack it open when it's super hot. Then, it's convenient.
I have yet to use the off-road mode yet for the car.
2020 Kia Forte GT 6MT:
I rarely drive the car in "normal" mode. It makes the car lethargic, makes the steering loose, the throttle laggy, and cuts boost. I basically only use it on long highway trips where I want to loaf along. Part of the startup procedure is bump the start button, plug in my phone, and hit the Sport Mode button.
Honorable Mention: Lane Keep Assist. I rarely use this.
In reply to Mr_Asa :
Navigation.
We just had this conversation yesterday. If it were possible to decline having a nav system in a new car, we would.
Harder to use and less up to date than my phone.
The CD player in my truck doesn't work but if it did I'd use it. I don't use the 110v outlet or four wheel drive very often but when I need them I'm very glad that I have them. Otherwise I believe that I use the other features pretty regularly.
I never use the lane keeping feature in my wife's car and I'd prefer the the cruise control not be adaptive but I use all the other features. My wife never uses the sunroof.
Am radio
I took the back seats out of my little hatchback car, I usually do since I prefer the utility to seating.
Steering wheel controls. Can't stand them.
C8 coupe- removable top, speedometer
e36M3/4/5- sunroof
'19 Ram- 4WD
There are several buttons I don't know what they do... yeah, those.
Duke said:In reply to Mr_Asa :
Navigation.
We just had this conversation yesterday. If it were possible to decline having a nav system in a new car, we would.
Harder to use and less up to date than my phone.
Apple CarPlay > OEM Nav
In reply to Mr_Asa :
It is a car, not a phone booth.
While I am here again, Drink holders. For the life of me I can not understand the infatuation with drinking and driving.
The radio. I didn't use it much in my old daily, and now that the radio is controlled by an obnoxiously bright color touchscreen in my current daily, I just leave the radio off and the screen off all the time.
I've got a button for downhill speed control. I guess it's for offroading, but it will allegedly prevent the car from exceeding a preset speed going down a steep incline. Turned it on and played with it one time.
In reply to NOHOME :
It's real nice to have a place to put your drink between the drive through and home.
NY Times app in the media center. Who in their right mind thought that was a good idea?
logdog (Forum Supporter) said:Am radio
You must never have had a reason to listen to Marty Brenneman and Joe Nuxhall call Reds games...the muffled static that accompanies AM radio will always have a soft spot in my heart.
The spare tire.
Plus 5 on the sunroof. Even the E36 M3boxes I buy somehow have a sunroof and I never use it.
My DD is a 2006, so not a lot of modern features. I guess the back seat would rate, as it never gets used.
On my last company car it was the lane departure warning. I HATED that system, and always had it turned off.
On my wife's Jetta it would be any of the dash warning lights, which come on at random. It's a VW, so they really don't mean anything.
The CD player. Infrequent, but it does get used.
My daily is a Kia Soul - its not exactly loaded with features.
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