Cars features/styling that you hate?

6ft high BMW grills

Seen one of these the other day and couldn't believe my eyes. Awful looking yoke.

electric hand brakes

I'm with you 100%. Neighbour has one so I see it regularly but it's just not growing on me

yeah 100%

completely unnecessary and potentially expensive deliberate ploy by manufacturers to overcomplicate a system and screw you out of money to fix it when it inevitably goes wrong...

You could have a hand operated lever and cable which pulls brake (simple, effective and likely not to let you down....or a switch, connected to wires that carry current to an electric motor (often with nylon gears which get destroyed if brakes stick) that pulls cables and engages brakes and absolutely will **** up almost 100% of times before the older manual design will

The last two I saw the gears were ground down requiring the motor replaced etc.. min 1k in each case...usually in awkward location so labour involved but parts not cheap either which is the real motivation...

But the pricking things are on a huge amount of cars now.

Nissan leafs still have an old school pedal operated parking brake. I like it.

The no seatbelt on warning screeching even when you're only moving the car in your driveway

Two cup holders moulded into the area between the front seats of VW cars and other makes.

If you're not in the habit of carrying coffee containers or bottles of water etc, they're a waste of stowage space and pretty useless for any other purpose.

stop start.

Particularly on a cold or hot day and the heating/aircon turns off with the start stop!

Having to go through menus to disengage dual climate control and sync back to single control.

A bad feature of many cars: The driver.

How big they all are these days, too wide for our country lanes to handle realistically.

It's like riding with hal9000. The computer/driver aids drive you nuts. I'd gladly swap it all for a stereo, I know there's one in there somewhere but you shouldn't have to surf a sub menu just for a bit of cardboard Kenny on newstalk.

Or just make auto lights standard equipment on all cars. It’s crazy how many safety features are optional, or taxed like any other option if you want to add them. Surely we should be incentivizing their uptake.

Speaking of, lane keep assist is another feature that should be consigned to the bin. What a load of crap.

PS Anyone who forgets to turn their lights on because they have DRLs is quite a dim individual. Pun intended.

Scandinavian (front and rear) DRLs should be standard everywhere. Auto lights too, but you’d still have people who’d manually turn them off.

Fake exhaust's. Old one looks much better.

Still is...another Kim fatarseifashion inspired monstrosity.

Then again beauty in the eye of yhe beholder I suppose.

I have to say I don't care if a car has drls or not but lads that flash the lights at you in broad daylight when you don't have drls or dims etc boil my piss....they ain't going to make me more visible at midday in the middle of a fine sunny June day ffs

Peugeots with those lights that make them look like a walrus just back from a trip to Turkey.

Tbh a high proportion of today's chauffeurs would prefer to be in the rear compartment with an AI chauffeur doing the actual driving.

I’d forgotten those! 😂😂

A dashboard that only the driver can see. Toyota Yaris 🙄

Also, same dashboard that dims when you turn on the headlights ... so that you can no longer read it easily in daylight. 🙄

No full size spare wheel as standard...a wheelbarrow sized one instead.