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The engine coolant light flashed on and then went out but I thought I would check if it needed topping up. This was on the 'crap car' I keep for use to carry my bikes and art stuff around so I don't spend too much time fettling it. I was still surprised when I popped the bonnet and couldn't immediately see the engine coolant reservoir.
It turns out that it is hidden behind the battery and under the windscreen scuttle.
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It was hard enough to find, difficult to actually remove the cap but I guess I am meant to use a teaspoon to top it up!
As the thread title “Great car design” - I had several Citroen BX variants and the hydro-gas suspension was superb, very comfortable, self levelling with the ability to raise the ride height with a lever.
Not so good when I experienced them when on fire, those five spheres didn’t half make a bang!
Great car design: Volvo V70 mk3
Bulb changes - pull out the tent pegs and boom the light unit is releases.
All fluids top up and check easily reachable.
Timing belt change - has 'flaps' in wheelarch to enable access.
The rear seats fold flat without catching the seatbelts - they are stored off to the side when left retracted.
Dashboard is not just illuminated from behind (so glaring at you) but illuminated by a tiny 'spotlight' between driver and passenger, so whole centre of dash is gently illuminated.
DRLS are front AND rear at all times. When you turn on headlights, the dash lights actually dim a little and the 'spotlight' comes on.
and so much more...
The only two criticisms:
- handbrake lever is not in an obvious place
- the cupholders are in the way of changing gear.
Engineering is always a compromise.
One requirement will be to make every serviceable item easy to access.
Another will be to make it safe if you hit something or someone.
Another will be to make the aerodynamics meet a certain drag number.
Etc.
Someone will make a decision on which of these is the priority, which will be different for different makes/models.
I guess I am meant to use a teaspoon to top it up!
No, you numpty, you're meant to drop the engine out. Duh.
Crap - Ford's insistence on gluing on door seals, badly. If you even see a bit of rubber poking out the bottom of a closed door, I'd put good money on it being a Focus
Also crap - Stupidly complex lighting arrangements that cost mega money if needing replaced, may well involve software to do so, and take hours to do. You also might need a garage to do it for you (due to the aforementioned software)
Good - one foot driving in EVs is surprisingly easy to get used to
Changing a headlight bulb on a Ford Focus 🤬
Vag 1.9tdi.
Ramp yourself up for a shitting manky time changing the oil filter... Open the bonnet to find its right at the top in a plastic housing. Unscrew the housing by hand replace filter housing over new filter.
Maybe 2minutes all in?
Similarly the aux belt. Spanner on the special nubbin take off the tension loop the new one round. Release spanner. 5minutes in a halfords carpark while waiting for returning shopper.
But. Actual car design i am amazed doesn't exist... Rainwater fed screenwash reservoir. With screenwashdosing
I have recently bought a gen9 civic, to replace the van.... Anyway it all seems well laid out and well put together...apart from headlight bulb access. Difficult, tight access and I couldn't see into it to work out the bulb clips. Anyway, I slid a phone in, took a photo and all was good then and I knew what I was doing. But that's the compromise with a small vehicle I guess. You can't have everything in a compact package and expect great access.
Great design - the old Saab Night Panel.
Cool and useful!
Rover 600 series. Literally everything about the one I had was a terrible design, something I am sure contributed to it just failing at every level one day. The mechanic took me to one side and, in hushed tones, told me that he was not a greedy man and that, whilst he could fix all the things, it genuinely would not be worth it.
I sold it on eBay with a long list of the faults and the chap that "won" drove it home in third gear.
On older nissans the intermittent wiper speed wasn't several notched pre-set speeds, you just twist the stalk like a volume knob so you can achive the exact wiper speed you want when set to intermittent.
Volvo V50 front passenger seat would fold flat forward to give a level deck for long loads or a mid drive nap without compromising boot space
But. Actual car design i am amazed doesn't exist... Rainwater fed screenwash reservoir. With screenwashdosing
Yes, I've always wondered why this is not a thing. It would be very useful especially in winter.
Honda Jazz flippy up rear seats. Simple. Brilliant
One of the headlight bulbs on my car is relatively easy to access.
The other one requires half the engine dismantling. What kind of idiot designed that?!
I can never remember which is which so it just goes to the garage who fortunately are very good, very local and very experienced with that make of car.
I've done fluid burst testing of hydropneumatic spheres (with the gas charge in) and they can take a very high pressure and then eventually fail without ejecting parts. But that test didn't include fire.....
Old Vauxhall Nova / Astra / Cavalier where you could replace the clutch without removing the gearbox - that was genius.
Smart forfour has the fold forward front passenger seat back.
Great for when the youngest wants to go surfing or perhaps fit a 2m length of wood in the car.
I always liked the flip forward front bench seat on the T5 I had. Made a great table when I was out in it and something I miss with the current Citroen Dispatch.
That said, I very much prefer the seating in my dispatch, which gives me a lot of headroom and storage cubbies over the top of the sun visors. It also has a long item storage hole and mounting points in the ceiling for things that are longer than the read load area.
Smart forfour has the fold forward front passenger seat back.
Great for when the youngest wants to go surfing or perhaps fit a 2m length of wood in the car.
I had hoped my new to me combo life would have a flold flat passenger seat (and possibly even drivers seat)
Alas no. Why wouldn't it just be standard?! Half tempted to take the cover off and work out which bit to grind...
Poor - the airplane style handbrake on a Ford S-Max which blocked the cup holders in the centre console when the handbrake was applied.
Great - The curry hooks under the centre console on the Kia EV6 to stop your takeaway toppling over. Also the snooze button on the seats that reclines them fully in one touch and then restores them to the previous position with another touch.
In recent years I’ve been converted to South Korean cars due to the thoughtfulness that seems to have been applied to the driver experience. Lots of little touches that just make the whole thing a bit more pleasant.
Good
SMax middle and rear seat flexibility and the headlight bulbs can be changed in minutes. Plus the handbrake looks like it will engage the HyperDrive™.
Bad
Trying to get access to the battery when I needed to get a set of jump leads over to my wife's car.
Jag XK.
Good thoughtful design -when you undo the trim screws in the boot trim to get to the battery, one of them breaks the connection from the earth terminal to the chassis.
Infuriating design: not realising the advice, and spending a disproportionate amount of time trying to work out why a variety of fully charged batteries are not even showing dash lights on your neighbour's car you offered to take a quick look at
On my CLS
Good: The handling.. It's not sporty but on a windy road, you can go quite a bit faster than normal and still remain perfectly comfortable and composed, passengers completely comfortable. The more you drive it the more remarkable a feat it seems to be.
Bad: Aside from the sunglasses issue (which was fixable) there is no space under the boot floor to put the luggage cover! Why the hell not? There's plenty of space.
Timing belt change - has 'flaps' in wheelarch to enable access
BMW should learn from this. On a 320D it needs one side of the front suspension disassembling to get to it. Rover 25 2L diesel, with BMW engine, has one of the glow plugs behind the timing chain. Only ever changed three.
Porsche Boxter. Electric bonnet/boot whatever it is when it's at the front and the engine isn't, release catch. You have to use an electric release catch to get to the battery.... What could possibly go wrong?
I'm not sure they have handbrakes as such..?
S-max’s? I can very much assure you that they do.
I know this due the constant supply of cold, undrunk Starbucks campachoochoos that I would constantly find stuck in the bloody cup holders.
Rover 600 series.
I had an 800 as a company car. Did 140000miles in 3 years - flawlessly. Bought a high mileage 400 Tourer myself later and that too was great until the head gasket went and given the age and mileage it wasn't worth fixing.
Changing a headlight bulb on a
VW Golf. Did it the other evening with my son. Have to remove so many bolts! And! The wheel arch lining! Removing the wheel The grill! The front bumper (partially)! The headlamp unit! Only then can you get at the bulb housing. What a joke.
I had hoped my new to me combo life would have a flold flat passenger seat (and possibly even drivers seat)
Alas no. Why wouldn't it just be standard?! Half tempted to take the cover off and work out which bit to grind...
Do you need to upgrade to Berlingo spec for that? Careful you don't go into the lofty world of the Rifter though or you lose it again
OTOH, you do get cupholders that are capable of holding cups in a Combo
Saab 900 'cockpit'. Hands down still the nicest driving position and layout for me.
Saab's aren't all great though - my FIL's 9000 had the most number of buttons I've ever seen outside of Boing 747 for the climate control system😂
My Hyundai i30N
Airbox its just four little clips you can flick off - no screws. Filter is held in by a plastic wedge that just slides out, you can then just replace the filter completely tooless. Pretty good for a modern car.
Trying to get access to the battery when I needed to get a set of jump leads over to my wife's car.
Read the manual. Our Galaxy had some /one jump lead connection points in the engine bay.
Actual car design i am amazed doesn't exist... Rainwater fed screenwash reservoir. With screenwashdosing
Mouldy water ahoy.
Electric cars: work great and don't turn around 7 tonnes of fossil fuel into stinking exhaust gas that is killing thousands and CO2 that is making life really unpleasant for many in southern Europe this week and killing a few. People who are moaning about the heat just don't seem to grasp the connection between their gas central heating, ICE car and the miserably hot Summer.
Cars where the flick wipe is not two steps away from intermittent wipe.
No car I have ever driven has an automatic intermittent wipe that does not need the occasional additional wipe when in use. Hence the flick wipe should still be accessible when intermittent is activated. On my Merc and current Volvo the intermittent wipe is activated by either turning the stalk or by pressing a button on the stalk so the down press for flick wipe does not disengage the intermittent wipe. Most other marques have not thought of this including BMW with their hateful interior and iDrive system. And , while I’m ranting about it Mrs OS has just bought a BMW and they want to charge 10 ****ing pounds a month to activate the automatic dip beam function. Literal daylight robbery. Needless to say she will be using her fingers to switch the main beam off. I mean who the actual **** pays for these things that allows them to offer it with a straight face.
Foot operated main beam switch on early Austin / Morris Mini. No need to ready your hand to cancel main beam with the stalk, just lightly rest your left foot on the floor button and tap it as the oncoming headlights are about to appear. Way better than modern auto dip systems that wait until they have burned the oncoming driver's retinas before dipping.
Citroen oleo pneumatic suspension. Aside from being smoother than Connery in a casino, the whole car could be raised when driving through floodwater.
Curry hooks.
Gas rams on heavy tailgates. So good you forget they are there.
Little V shaped dents in outer sills to show where the jacking points are.
Much of the modern safety kit that developed from past tragedies. Bonnet stays that stow across the front slam panel to avoid kebabbing occupants in a head on. Anti submarine seats, convenient inertia reel seat belts, now with pretensioners. De-coupling steering columns, burst proof locks, crumple zones, laminated glass, soft visors. Various electronic systems that keep road and wheel speed consistent. Airbags of all types; progressive, double width, leg, even centre ones to keep occupants apart. We never give safety features a second thought until it all goes Pete Tong, then they just work and we walk away instead of dying. Yes lane departure warnings are a right PITA but they will have saved a good few lives.
Bad -Jaguar X-Type RH headlight bulb. Clip is impossible to release (almost) and bulb change requires a child sized hand or willingness to scrape enough skin off to make your hand that small. Clip fixed by adding a cable tie as an extension.
Good - Citroen Hydropneumatic suspension for raising car for flood water
Bad - Citroen Xantia with such suspension drawing air from the bottom of the wheel well...
Citroen GS - 3 spark plugs easy, 4th impossible without the special double jointed plug spanner. Easy after that!
Gas rams on heavy tailgates. So good you forget they are there.
Gawd, I replaced both struts on my tailgate as they couldn't hold the weight of the boot anymore.
Now I've got the opposite problem, I have to mind I don't get my teeth knocked out when I open the boot!
I had hoped my new to me combo life would have a flold flat passenger seat (and possibly even drivers seat)
Alas no. Why wouldn't it just be standard?! Half tempted to take the cover off and work out which bit to grind...
Do you need to upgrade to Berlingo spec for that? Careful you don't go into the lofty world of the Rifter though or you lose it again
OTOH, you do get cupholders that are capable of holding cups in a Combo
Nah it was an option. And in lots of the vans. Aswell.
The dash holders in the combo are ace. They're as ace as the ines on the floor are shit.
Actually not actually car design.
But the owners manual... **** me it's long and contains every option and variation. Then you have to go to the back and work out what options come with your trim level.
Good design. The Nissan Cube. A ridiculous amount of space in a small package. I can vouch for the thoughtful design touches on many a Volvo, too. One that I appreciated is the large screenwash reservoirs that they have. Get the low screenwash indication, buy a big 5l bottle and chuck the lot in.
Bad design. Wet belt engines.
The dash holders in the combo are ace.
but they’re the ones we all share aren’t they? Even a standard 500ml will launch itself out of them if you’re not careful. They are very nearly on my bad list, only saved as they are quite good with the travel mugs I have
Had a second (third or fourth more likely) hand Renault Espace (7 seater) years back.
The back two rows of seats were on rails and hence could be slid to vary leg room vs boot space.
The 'gauge' on these rails was such that those for the rear two seats coincided with some of those of the three in the middle row.
All rear seats were removable and interchangable, so, together with swivel front seats, it would have made a fantastically versatile' holiday car / day van' for a family of four.
Really well thought out.
The dash holders in the combo are ace.
but they’re the ones we all share aren’t they? Even a standard 500ml will launch itself out of them if you’re not careful. They are very nearly on my bad list, only saved as they are quite good with the travel mugs I have
Hmm nothing i have put in them have fallen out they are pretty deep. The latest version one actually in the dash rather than on the little lippy shelf bit?
2CV
My nephew just bought a pickup version for doing local deliveries,it's frikking awesome.
Honda Stepwagons:
- 3rd row of seats fold into the boot floor for a completely flat load deck
- The rear seats can also be flipped over and used as a bench when the boot is open which
- One of the generations had a split boot door so a 3rd could be opened barn door style where you have limited space behind the car, or all of it lifted like a tailgate
Mercedes glb and eqb have a little hook on the back door. Good for hanging a towel or wetsuit to dry, whilst changing underneath the door.
I can vouch for the thoughtful design touches on many a Volvo, too. One that I appreciated is the large screenwash reservoirs that they have.
And, unlike so many VAG cars they do not hide the bottle in the cold front wing of the car, the bottle and pipes are in the warm engine bay. Coupled with heated nozzles they work even in very sub-zero conditions....
Had a second (third or fourth more likely) hand Renault Espace
I remember seeing an original Espace in Chamonix donkeys years ago when they were brand new on the scene. I thought the aliens had landed. Brilliant concept.
Foot operated main beam switch on early Austin / Morris Mini. No need to ready your hand to cancel main beam with the stalk, just lightly rest your left foot on the floor button and tap it as the oncoming headlights are about to appear. Way better than modern auto dip systems that wait until they have burned the oncoming driver's retinas before dipping
Unless of course you were changing gear at the time the other car appeared. But even on full beam the headlights on my Morris traveller were never going to be a bother to anyone's retinas.
The other funky thing about that car was that the indicator stalk had a repeater light on the end (green iirc).
I'd put good money on it being a Focus
🤣 Is it even a real focus if it doesn't have door trim hanging out?
See also, the older variant of Mondeo and gaffa taped rear bumpers.
Qashqai's and missing boot handles.
Or my old Civic, immaculate bodywork, no sign of rust, the underside however was like it had termites!
How many posts without a Skoda Octavia mention - what has happened to STW!?!
Good;
- Ice scraper under the fuel flap
- Parking ticket clip on widescreen
- Second set of rear seat fold-down release catches in the boot
- Curry hooks (but I feel pretty much all cars have these now?)
- On current model, USB-C port on the rear view mirror for powering a dash cam
- (In the Superb - umbrella integrated into door as per Rolls Royce)
Bad;
On right hand drive cars, getting to the fuse box involves disassembling the glove box.
Great car - shite seat design.
1st gen Cayenne - seats bases pull up and out on a funky mechanism, seat backs then fold down into the base for a completely flat floor.
3rd gen Cayenne - seat backs only flop forward and won't go lower than 30ish degrees. It was that crap that I unbolted the entire seat and made a 'seat delete' wood false floor to get a usable flat load area again.
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VW Toureg - you have to remove the front passenger seat to change the battery. This involves disconnecting the seat airbags and the warning lights can only be reset witht he correct VAG tool which means off to the Main Stealer where they probably want to do a full 2 hour inspection to make sure you tightened the bolts to the correct torque and will charge you accordingly - amazingly enough it costs about the same as asking them to change the battery.
I always liked the flip forward front bench seat on the T5 I had. Made a great table when I was out in it and something I miss with the current Citroen Dispatch.
This is a great feature in my VW T5 factory Kombi, but then VW ****ed it up by fitting the rear seats the opposite way round with the rear single seat behind the front passengers flip forward double seat, and the rear passenger flip forward double seat behind the driver's seat
If they had fitted the rear flip forward double seat behind the front passenger flip forward double seat then I could of laid both double seat's backrests flat and had a full length loading area without having to remove any seats when collecting long items
The seating system in my Vivaro Life ! Five rear seats, two reversable mid row seats (so can face backwards) and a double/single rear. All seats can be positioned at any part of the rail system, but will only let you lock them in place when they are near the seat belts. The two singles have their own belts fitted as the seats can face backwards in a 'lounge layout'. They all come out and converts to a van. Pull the middle seats out, slide the back row to the front and you have a huge boot and five seats.
Tailgate - because it's so big, the glass screen also opens so you can put items in when there isn't the huge amount of space you need to open the full tailgate.
Down side, the front seats can't be folded or swivelled on this model due to the extra electrics in them, and you can't get a 'kit' for the posh seats. You can for the lower level model though.
When he lived in Canada my mates Dad had some godawful American car which had double filament bulbs. The idea being that if the first filament blew, then the second one kicked in so you didn't go around with failed lights.
Sounds great, right?
Except as soon as the first filament blew, the dashboard lit up with flashing orange lights and there was a constant "bing", "bing" to tell you to replace the bulb, but it didn't tell you which bulb had blown. And when you walked around the car you couldn't see which bulb had blown because all the lights were on.
So you'd spend a week removing and checking every bulb to see if a filament had blown to eventually find that it was the internal boot light or something.
Absolute insanity.
Eventually he drove it to a scrap yard and watched as they loaded it into the crusher...
Additional diesel heater in my Vivaro - means the van interior receives warm air by the time I've driven down our road - a boon given how long a diesel vehicle takes to warm up. Shame the UK models don't come with the remote to start it early or operate on it's own - colder climate versions do.
MrsF's Qashqai's spark plugs. You have to remove the air intake to the engine, and the throttle position sensor to get to them. On replacing the TPS needs properly resetting - garage job really. Way too many screws to unbolt.
Vivaro again, great dash top cup holders - fit a small flask in ! Door bins huge. Lower dash passenger cubby hole, tiny because of the extra electrics (fuse box) for the car version - doesn't have the van's big cubby !
Android Auto/Carplay - no place for you to put the phone when using a short usb cable - you need a long lead that dangles all over the shop to then put phone in passenger cubby, which is half a mile away from the driver (OK slight exaggeration) The central cubby is just big enough for a packet of soft mints. Solved by buying a phone holder. Does have dash top storage with a hidden lid though.
On right hand drive cars, getting to the fuse box involves disassembling the glove box.
That must be a newer model, my old Octavia had the fuses down below the dash, but there was one issue in that the diagram showing what the fuses were was a mirror image of the actual ’box… 🤔
Actual car design i am amazed doesn't exist... Rainwater fed screenwash reservoir. With screenwashdosing
Mouldy water ahoy.
Not just that, lots of road dirt, dust and general detritus, and any filters would get clogged and be an absolute nightmare to clean and/or remove.
Changing a headlight bulb on a Ford Focus
No idea how difficult it was on a Focus, my Puma Zetec headlight design meant it took 45 minutes at least to change even a sidelight bulb!
You needed a large Torx wrench just to take out the row of bolts holding the grill in place, before having to detach cables, drain tube, various screws, then wiggle the entire unit out of the car, before removing the back of the unit to access the bulbs…
😖😡🤬
My old Ford focus (02),the garage cut out the corner of the battery housing to get into the lights. Saved taking the battery out to change bulb.
14 plate focus then had the door seal hanging out on 3doors. When it was sold it was fixed with sticks like shit.
The rain ran off the windscreen then around the top of the wing mirror keeping the windows clear for a good view of the mirror.
Current Octavia happy all-round love all the features but I never use the Brolly. The lid of cubby hole between the front seats slide forwards to become an arm rest. The HUD just works. Adaptive cruise control is a dream. The only problem has been the sunglasses holder catch breaking and the garage trying to pull the wool over my eyes.
Our XC40 has a handy pull out bin in the centre console, still doesn't stop the wife stuffing crap every else though 😆 The Old C30 had headlights that you removed with a simple rod too, made changing bulbs a doddle!
But the owners manual... **** me it's long and contains every option and variation. Then you have to go to the back and work out what options come with your trim level.
Coincidentally, I've just found a photo of the manual that came with... I think my Civic?
VW Toureg - you have to remove the front passenger seat to change the battery. This involves disconnecting the seat airbags and the warning lights can only be reset witht he correct VAG tool which means off to the Main Stealer where they probably want to do a full 2 hour inspection to make sure you tightened the bolts to the correct torque and will charge you accordingly - amazingly enough it costs about the same as asking them to change the battery.
It's stablemate Cayenne has a small flap in front of the passenger seat, pop this open and you can unbolt the negative/earth connections for the battery before removing the seat without upsetting the airbag circuit.
Our twenty year old Honda CR-V.
Good. Lift the carpet in the ‘boot’, pull out the plastic floor, pull down the legs and lo and behold you’ve got a picnic table.
Not so good. They forgot the chairs! 😁
The SMax full stop.
It has the footprint of a Mondeo. It's usefully lower roofed than a Galaxy.
It handles better than any other MPV I've set foot in and has a superb ride especially on long motorway trips. It's still tolerable on A roads and around town too. It's quiet and well mannered when cruising (top priority for me).
You can easily get three people and bikes inside in comfort on a long trip with room for luggage and snacks.
It carries tow bar load (e.g. bike racks) and tows brilliantly.
The bulbs are all user changeable with less than half an hour of effort.
Hours was mechanically really very good apart from a damaged piece of loom (tail lights body to tailgate). It was easy on tyres and brakes (at least with how I drive). Yes the battery is an arse to change but maybe once every 5 years you spend £100 on labour to change it.
I've got an 8 year newer Superb now. The Skoda is really lovely in daily driving but when it comes to sailing and road trips the SMax really was the King.
Odd as I hated our S-Max for silly little reasons, it was the older version on a 14 plate.
The glovebox would empty it's contents everywhere if you were facing uphill at all.
Also the boot inner was higher than the outer. So again if you parked facing uphill things would roll or slide out the boot. Bloody stupid.
Sold it as soon as we could and got an Octavia instead. Still have that 7 years later
The split tailgate on BMW estates is a nice bit of engineering
We Used to have a Seat Altea XL. I wanted to hate it, but it was one of the most practical cheap cars I’ve ever owned. Good space, integrated window blinds and sturdy tables built in to the rear seats
On right hand drive cars, getting to the fuse box involves disassembling the glove box.
This is fairly normal for vag. Our golf Mk7 is the same though for most of the fuses you just need to release a catch so the glove box door drops forward. There are some less common bits in there that require more extensive dismantling and moving the fuse box far enough to allow fitting an extra fuse is virtually impossible.
theres nothing amazing about my Zafira b, its plasticy and not very engaging to drive, certainly changing a headlight bulb requires an 8 fingered hand with several extra joints in your fingers, BUT ...
it can go from 7 seats to a van like boot in a few seconds, And have any combination of seats up or down, the back 2 are just kid seats , but with 4 kids its been invaluable, its has hauled combinations of people, buggys, animals, bodyboards, furniture and bikes and with a double airbed its not a terrible place to sleep for the night!
the other thing ti note is it's reliability*... weve had it 10 years, 98k, ive had to change 1 set of spark plugs, front discs, a few brake pads and recently the rear exhaust
*hope i haven't cursed our trip to Wales this weekend where its carrying all 6 of us plus tent and camping gear, 3 bikes on the back, 1 on the roof, along with roof box and 2 bikes inside!
Bad design - PSA/Citroen
The pedal box on the Berlingo is a module that can fit in either the left or right of the bulkhead. This means that any fault in the brake master cylinder or clutch pedal on a UK car is an engine out job! Scrapped an otherwise perfectly good Berlingo 2.0HDI because the clutch pedal cracked. I even looked to see if Willwood or AP made a pedal kit that could bot to the floor instead 😂
Good Design - PSA/Citroen
Berlingo's, big, boxy, simple, sliding doors.
Why aren't there more "utility vehicles" like that than "sports utility vehicles", I don't want the space of a fiesta in a car the size of a Mondeo, I want the space of a Mondeo in the size of a Fiesta!
On older nissans the intermittent wiper speed wasn't several notched pre-set speeds, you just twist the stalk like a volume knob so you can achive the exact wiper speed you want when set to intermittent.
All fords above poverty spec also have that.
The poverty spec auto-adjust based on clicking it on and off, so wipe once, wipe again, and it maintains that interval!
My Ioniq has a place to store your handbag between the centre console and the dash, so it doesn't have to go in anyone's footwell.
My Ioniq has a place to store your handbag between the centre console and the dash, so it doesn't have to go in anyone's footwell.
Do you remember the old Renault 5 umbrella gear lever sticking out of the dash? When my sister first got in mine she asked what it was and I told her it's to hang your handbag on, which she thought was a brilliant feature.
I loved changing gear on the Renault 4 and 2CVs I drove (you had an early 5, slowoldman, the later models had a floor change). I couldn't decide if it was more enjoyable driving or watching the girlfriends drive. 🙂
I always really liked the split tailgate on the Fiat Marea Weekend. It was a normal tailgate for an estate, but there was a lower part which folded down with some of the bumper and made wonderfully flat spot to sit on. Just the perfect height to use as actual feet on the floor seating. It was quite a nice piece of engineering and a shame it was quite short lived.