Keyless push-button start/stop – New Car Features

It may be a statement to have a keyless way to start your car. You could be carrying it your pockets or even your bag and will make you feel very classy. Little would you know, that keyless keys can be an easier way to steal your car. It’s important to realize it will have no impact on the driving experience.

Automatic headlamps – New Car Features

Why pay a bomb for the kind of job that your eyes can do effortlessly? No doubt, there are a lot of drivers on the road that forget to turn on their headlamps. But as co-drivers, we could just tell them to switch on the headlamps. We don’t need to essentially burn a hole in our pockets for a simple eye and arm coordination.

Sunroof – New Car Features

A sunroof’s actual purpose is to recycle the cabin’s air on a highway that is if the weather is really good. It also allows better aerodynamics compared to roll down your windows. But, opening a sunroof is not a good idea in our extreme traffic struck roads. On top of that with the dust and the pollution, it just leaves us with absolutely no good reason for it.

Beige Interior

Almost never do the salesperson tell you about the additional labour or cost that you will have to bear if you want to keep the interiors beige at all times. In a dusty and heavily polluted country like India, this beige coloured interior would soon turn into a colour that you wouldn’t want to spend on. Hence, it’s always better to have dark coloured interiors.

Capacitive controls

We always want to have absolutely updated technology around us, but when this technology could hamper your concentration on the road while driving, it wouldn’t feel worth it. The touch controls do give your car a better look but physical buttons can be felt and you wouldn’t have to worry about taking your eyes off the road.

Proximity Sensors

This is actually a good feature for your car, it definitely prevents the car from hitting something and damaging. However, if you’re buying a car in India, this would just mean that you keep on listening to the sound of the alarm going off every minute.

Ambient Lighting

It’s always nice to have mood lighting coming out of nowhere in your car cabin. If you have the extra money, spend it on this feature. However, customers on a tight budget shouldn’t be spending on this feature because you will get bored within a few months anyway. 

Faux roof rails

The purpose of roof rails is to carry the luggage that doesn’t fit into your boot space, however, very creatively manufacturers have transformed it to just be something visually appealing making your car look bulky and charging you heavily too. These faux roof rails serve absolutely no purpose whatsoever, so you can easily skip this feature when you buy your next SUV.

Voice Commands

This is actually an extremely useful feature, however, most of the cars come with voice commands that could only sense what you’re saying in a particular accent. It can be a sheer waste of money if you pay for this feature and it doesn’t understand your command. It’s highly likely that you forget about its existence after a while in this case. So all we’re saying is, if you’re going for this feature, do make sure it understands the Indian accent properly.

Automatic Wipers

It is almost an involuntary action to turn on the wipers when you need them, just like headlamps. It doesn’t make any sense to shell out any extra money that is not going to make any difference to the looks or the performance of the car.

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