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11 Features Manufacturers REMOVED That Are FINALLY Coming Back
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- Published on Mar 12, 2026
- 11 Features Manufacturers REMOVED That Are FINALLY Coming Back
For years, car manufacturers treated common sense like a software bug. Physical buttons were replaced with touchscreens. Spare wheels disappeared in favour of tyre foam. Oil dipsticks were deleted and replaced with sensors that fail in hot oil. When drivers complained, they were told to “adapt” - to trust software, subscriptions, and sealed systems instead of their own judgment.
But in 2026, something remarkable is happening. The industry is quietly retreating. Not because executives suddenly rediscovered wisdom - but because customers revolted, sales suffered, regulators intervened, and the data became impossible to ignore. Euro NCAP will now penalise cars without physical controls for critical functions. Volkswagen publicly admitted removing buttons was a mistake. BMW has brought back spare wheels. Hyundai, Porsche, and even Ferrari are restoring real controls after usability studies proved touchscreens are slower and more dangerous.
This video breaks down eleven features manufacturers stripped away - and the hard evidence showing why they’re coming back. From Vi Bilägare’s real-world distraction tests that showed touchscreen cars taking over four times longer to perform basic tasks, to the absurd cost and failure rates of electronic substitutes for simple mechanical parts, the pattern is clear: “modernisation” often meant cost-cutting disguised as progress.
We look at physical climate controls, spare wheels, oil dipsticks, naturally aspirated engines, manual handbrakes, hydraulic steering feel, fog lights, manual gearboxes, and the broader fight for driver autonomy and the right to repair. Some of these features are already returning. Others are mandated by regulation. And a few are still under threat - surviving only because certain brands refuse to abandon simplicity.
This isn’t nostalgia. It’s accountability. Cars became harder to use, more expensive to maintain, and less trustworthy - and buyers pushed back. If you care about usability, safety, long-term ownership, and actually understanding your own vehicle, these reversals matter more than horsepower figures or screen size.
The rebellion worked. And it’s not finished yet.
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We need to bring back the crank handle that we used to start cars in the old days !!
Question to everyone why not just make touch screens in cars illegal, easy solution to self made problem.
Manual physical controls are the best!
As are physical dial gauges .... one quick glance and you'll know if what you're concerned about is within proper spec.
A spare wheel should be standard not an add on extra.
A full size spare , not a silly space saver.
No room for spare in a lot of modern wheel wells, on a hybrid the battery goes there - lucky to have room for a half size spare which are horrible to drive on.
Kia EV3 has NO DRIVER HANDBOOK!. There is an online manual. So what do I do when offline? AND, trying to flick back and forth through pages to find a specific feature is just not as user friendly as a hard copy manual, particularly one that runs to between 700 and 900 pages. My printer has broken. Officeworks wanted about 700 A$ to print a colour copy for me . I love the car, even despite some minor irritations. But, it is my first all electric vehicle and there're lots of hidden features, most of which I am entirely unaware and only slowly learning by trial and error.
KIA, PLEASE BRING OUT A HARD COPY OF THE MANUAL AT NO EXTRA COST TO A NEW OWNER.
As harsh as they ride I'd rather have run flats and more storage space. Run flats have saved my journey twice.
No spare wheel just a cost cutting exercise.
No wants crap foam and space saver skinny wheel or run flats
Touch Panels showed us that manufacturers were Out of Touch.
The only Dipsticks were on their boards of directors.
Not due they were. The touchscreens are for the iPad generation. They are more used to touching a screen unlike the older fogeys.
@thalesofmiletus2966 It's a safety issue. You cannot watch the road whilst using a touch screen, but you can remember where buttons are by feel.
@thalesofmiletus2966 Nothing to do with age or familiarity. Trying to scroll through menus to find controls while driving is beyond stupid and seriously compromises safety.
It is ironic that the touch screens put up "Do not take your eyes off the road" that you have to press a location to get it off the screen.
@MervynPartin Yeah, meanwhile they're worried you may use your cell phone...
Use of phones is banned due to lack of road attention, but complicated touchscreens with multiple menus is perfectly acceptable?
Yes, it makes no sense.
Doesn't make any sense does it?
well, we live in the world that "No texting while driving" needs to be a law because people don't understand what "No phone while driving" meant.
Yes, people are this effing dense or believe that they found a loophole, and even worse when people guarding the laws agree.
I’ve been saying the same thing
Here's another oxymoron: Anything shipped with a lith-ion battery, here in Uhmurika, has to have this big label warning that it cannot be shipped via air. Meanwhile, on a large commercial flight you have 300 cell phones and probably close to that number of laptops. But good to know that a battery with that label isn't in the cargo hold.
Only a dipstick would make a car without a dipstick😅😅😅😅
Motor oil is overrated. 😄
Mercedes for the past years if you want a dipstick that cost extra
Exactly. We had a BMW @ work with no dipstick. The owner must have just topped it up regularly with a set amount. The crank-case was 3/4 full of oil!
I like the dialogue, BMW deleted the dipstick in 2006. No, the dipstick kept on buying BMWs.
Tell me about it. My BMW told me the ouil was low, but I wasn't sure if the level sensor was on the fritz or it really needed oil. I had to get a man with a OBD reader round. He did a diagnostic and found zero fault codes, so I whacked the oil in. If I'd been able to check with a dipstick..........
The stupidest thing manufacturers did was to remove the spare wheel; that foam is useless
It's worked for me several times. Even with roadside service, I carry a can so that if the puncture isn't too bad, I don't have to wait for the service.
I carry an electric compressor. That and the spare wheel saved me when I hit a 3 x 2 timber at 70 mph. Thankfully one side missed the timber. One tyre and wheel were trashed (used the spare). The other leaked but the compressor got me going and topped it up part way home.
It also destroys the tyre.
The foam also ruins TPMS sensor too
More so now perhaps, than ever with Roads dereriorated to almost Moon Surface quality in places, more tradesmaen using Trailors and spilling nails screws and whatever onto roads that only get cleaned by rain. Buying my first car without a Spare Wheel, perhaps 16 yeas ago, we were told that statistically we'd get a puncture every 3.5 years and it wasn't worth carrying the extra weight of a Spare, we started getting punctures as roads were let go a couple of years later, and bought a "get you home" tyre. Latest mark of same car is a Hybrid with no obvious place to store a spare. Warning sytem for deflating tyres, and foam with mini compressor do not inspire confidence.
Physical buttons is what most people want. I want too drive a car not a smart phone
Completely agree also i want to drive a car and make decisions
Yes, and not have the car depreciate like a smart phone.
My car had this amazing new feature where you could wind the windows up and down without the keys in the ignition just by turning a handle! Amazing!!! What will they think of next?
Spare tires and dipsticks should be mandatory.
To many distractions in a modern car. 😢
What I want is privacy back, get the internet out of the cars. I have my phone, my car can just be a car.
You phone knows where you are, for how long and with whom
@casper_hansenyes but you can turn it off or leave it at home.
Many phones still have gps on while turned off these days, there might be a reason the battery can't be taken out
@casper_hansen My phone has no idea where I am. Especially when I change shirts and forget to transfer it across. Anyway who wants interruptions when your being entertained.
Orrrrr. When your questioned as to your whereabouts. My phone said we were home all afternoon 🤔
Indeed...the infamous buzzword of car marketing is "connectivity" (!!!).
The traditional handbrake should never be removed, dipsticks are a must on all motors and auto boxes. Any idiot that supports these features has never maintained their vehicle!!
The electronic handbrake will keep the car going straight since it will work with ABS, ESP, ASR and other safety systems if the driver becomes incapicited and the passenger have to bring the car to a stop. A mechanical handbrake is lets lock the backwheels and hope for the best
@Groza_Dallocortelectric hand brake/ park brake do not engage while driving. Speed needs to be lower than 1km per hour after that it will not engage. So effectively no emergency brake 😮
@antonyfrost2541that depends on the car manufacturer, on Peugeot it works fine
@Groza_Dallocort With that crappy electric handbrake, you can't even change your brake shoes or brake discs yourself anymore, because you have to use a laptop to adjust it afterwards.
so for a easy selfrepair what cost 200€ you must go to a shop and pay 600-800€
@Killerbengel thing is except for replacing lightbuls, change tires and refill fluids I have been taking my cars to a car repair shop for the rest since I cant reset the service light and since I bought my car factory new I had a bunch of warrentys that will be broken unless a certified shop take a look at it
As an older person, I stopped looking at modern day vehicles because I'm not qualified to drive them, I don't understand screens, I don't know how to use them, I currently drive a 15 year old basic vehicle, no screens, no electronic checking systems, no "safety" features that we never needed in the past, I like clocks, physical buttons, handbrake levers, I don't care for electric windows, I prefer simplicity, I only drive a vehicle to and from work, I don't need all gadgets and overly complicated technology and controls
Cars from 15 years ago still had manual windows?
My current car is 12 years old, was cheap when it was made, and it has powered windows.
me to, my old Peugeot 607 2,2 HDi is still the best! (after 20 years of using)
Electric parking brakes are far superior to handbrakes.
Most people do not know how to properly use the brake.
All the reasons for the handbrake are not good. Having the ability to do handbrake turns is senseless activity of idiots.
@smallbutdeadly931 my late aunt owned a 2019 small car that had non electric windows in the backseat. I guess full electric windows cost extra on that model
@BasilPunton Utter rubbish! If your conventional handbrake cable goes it's £15 and 20 minutes to fit a new one on your drive. If an electronic hand brake goes pop you are into serious moolah, up to a grand, and on many models you may need to use a computer to tell the ECU it has a new module or part.
As a driver I like to know where the handbrake is set, and I can use it in an emergency, in fact, on many French cars the handbrake operated the front wheels for specifically that reason.
As for handbrake turns yes, silly, childish, but guess what, in snow you may well find the only way to avoid a collision is to use that handbrake to lock the rear wheels, preventing your ABS from killing your brakes.
Infotainment screens are highly dangerous. Basic functions on these screens should be illegal.
I'd be really glad if they removed the fugly slapped on giant tablet on the center console.
I want to drive and control my car. If I didn't I'd get a taxi. Well done Mazda, Dacia et al.
Really mazda you been in the new 6 abd cx5 no buttons all touch screen including wipers new car from 2026
bang on .
I had an '04 Mercedes without a dipstick which was idiotic.
Driving along suddenly the computer tells me that there is too little oil. OK but it did not tell as a dipstick would how much oil was missing.
To work that one out you have to buy oil, drive the car to a level spot, add some oil and run the engine, wait for the computer to make up its mind, add a bit more oil. Repeat until computer is happy.
Since I was in a rush I just dumped 1L of oil in it. Car was happy...until I reached the motorway when the computer decided that there was too much oil and put the engine in limp mode without prior warning so suddenly the car reduced speed from 70 to 50mph which is somewhat disconcerting when you are in the inside lane. Had to go carry on home at 50mph, go to my mechanic to have the oil changed. Turns out that there were 2L too much oil in it so the low oil warning was false to start with. A dipstick would have avoided all that panic and expense.
Never buying a car without dipstick ever again.
Sure as hell the designer/beancounter who authorised that was a dipstick!
What a nightmare. You have my sympathies.
Did I hear it correctly at 7:12 that BMW thinks a "quart" of oil used in 800-900 miles is normal ? If that's true then they're bigger PsOS than I ever imagined. That's just plain ridiculous.
If you only added 1l of motor oil, how comes that 2l were too much? Who put in that first extra liter too much? Aren't event the mechanics able to get it right?
Above and beyond that lot: fake engine noise and fake exhausts, world gone mad
West gone mad.
Don't blame everyone but the parasites.
One of the things I like about our 2024 SUV is the fact the tailpipe is tucked under the rear apron, completely out of sight. No ugly bare steel tailpipe, no chrome tailpipe cover trying to dress it up, no dual tips with one being fake, and definitely not dual fake tips. It's an SUV, not a sports car (although it's still pretty fun to drive).
Fake engine noise might be the single stupidest addition to cars in their entire history. If I want a car so well insulated that I can't hear the engine, I sure as hell don't want that feature defeated by having engine noise piped in or generated (I prefer to hear a bit of the engine growl on a gas vehicle).
Next it'll be a fake commute to your remote job (watching ads to earn food stamps)
the fake engine noise module caused the whole car to malfunction on some year of gwaggon. It was the dumbest problem I had seen as far as unrepairability in modern cars
Mild pushback here. All electric or hybrid vehicles need to have SOME sort of noise when they're moving. The blind and visually-impaired pedestrians absolutely use sound to know if there is a moving vehicle near them. They use vehicle sounds to know when it is safe to cross an intersection, in addition to other techniques. Vehicles do not need to sound like F1 or NASCAR, but they should have some noise.
It just goes to show the auto companies are dominated by "stylists", "designers" and "customer experts" who know diddly squat about anything in the real world. Real engineers and ergonometists never got a word in edgeways.
In my opinion, the "bean counters" are responsible for much of these issues, stylists and designers want to build a nice car, customer experts take the pulse of the customers, but who is the closest to pee in the board of director's ears? Bean counters, who try to squeeze up every penny they can, and often shouldn't.
Trying to use a touch screen on our potholed roads is massively dangerous and almost impossible anyway. . Can't understand why phone use is illegal, but touch screens arent?
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When your car keeps you in the center of your lane and keeps the distance and speed and brakes when needed then it really isn't a problem glancing on the screen, just don't do it while in an intersection
@casper_hansen If you can't keep your car in the centre of a lane or control the distance between vehicles, you shouldn't be driving.
That might come next.
I think this is a great example how things oscilate in life even in this scale - from oversafety and green stuff to absurdity with touchscreens like an obsession in massive scale.
A real spare wheel, no stupid space saver.
A space saver is far better than a can of gunk and no spare at all. You will have to limit your speed, but at least you won't be stranded.
@Alan-ln3lsI have seen this situation before where the car was packed full and you get a flat. You then fit the space saver and you have no room for the flat . I hate these stupid ideas.
To be fair......you wouldn't be able to fit a full sized spare wheel in some cars.....just not enough room.
@steve_and_lolas_hikes Some cars have the spare on a bracket at the back, so lack of space inside is no excuse. My HiLux had the spare wheel under the load bed, so that is an option for high ground clearance vehicles like that.
@DavidGirling Good point. The spare on my camper is underneath......it winds down 😁
I would not feel comfortable without a spare wheel. I would not buy a car with only a touchscreen for basic functions.
Every aftermarket touchscreen I've bought for my older cars are purely for when the car stops, and is in park, and I always get the ones that have the buttons to the bottom
Hear me out, few years ago while driving on the country side, my alloy wheel hit a pothole and it bent the wheel.
It swapped the damaged wheel with the "full-size" spare wheel and i was back on the road in 20 minutes.
A repair kit would have been useless on a bent wheel.
If i had to wait for a recovery truck, it would have probably taken 4h (i was in the country side)
Now my "new" car is a MPV with no spare wheel but a repair kit, I've never used such device.
The instructions are printed in small letters, barely visible (Still useless on a damaged wheel).
I need to be fair though, the 3rd row folding seats take the space for a potential spare wheel.
Another point i want to make is that cars are getting fatter, heavier, tires are huge nowadays.
It would be impossible to get a "full size" spare wheel, and even the "pancake" spare might not be good for many cars.
Also a full size spare wheel is heavy, women or elderly people can't lift that, they will have to ask for assistance for sure.
does anybody in the civilised world measure oil in 'quarts' ?
Nope.
The small toper canister is half liter 😉
It's more or less a litre, so no biggie. Still, this video being focused on Europe, it doesn't make sense to use it.
Not in the civilised world, but in the states they do.
Bring back the CD player. Not in the glovebox. Or at least have it as an option.
God no....CDs are done 😂
Yeah.. na
Thank GOD for CarPlay. CD’s were clumsy and distracting. They skipped all over the music track with every bump in the road. They were 10x’s more expensive than just subscribing to Apple music and plugging into CarPlay for $11/month with a 100 million song assembled playlist controlled by verbal command. Or downloading a few thousand songs to your iPod, iPhone or iPad for in car playback quality vastly superior to CD’s.
@LawrenceMarkFearonWRONG!!!!
Why Phone Music is More Distracting:
High Interaction Rate: Changing playlists, skipping songs, or dealing with notifications requires frequent, often visual, interaction with a screen.
Touchscreen Dangers: Interacting with infotainment systems, such as Apple CarPlay or Android Auto, has been shown to be more distracting than using a physical CD player, with some studies suggesting it can be more distracting than drunk driving.
Extended Eyes-Off-Road Time: Research indicates drivers can take their eyes off the road for up to 16 seconds while handling music apps, significantly increasing reaction times.
Increased Cognitive Load: Using phone apps, even via voice control, often requires more mental effort than simply listening to a pre-set album, leading to slower reactions to hazards.
@LawrenceMarkFearon Or just fill a memory stick for free and plug that in 😂😂🤦🏻♂️
When I was buying a new car in 2022, a manual parking brake, a normal spare wheel, and a manual transmission were key components that determined my choice of vehicle.
I think by that stage only Toyota and VW were supplying a full size spare wheel. What did you buy?
@ThePedroDB Hyundai I20 1.0 T-GDi 'Style'
@jernejfunkl8300 I'd just buy an old car with all the features. New cars are garbage after 2000. Possibly even 1990.
@dcarbs2979 I agree, but if you want a new car you have to accept certain compromises. The most annoying are the electronic assistance systems.
@jernejfunkl8300 That's why my daily is over 30 years old and I still consider it too modern. Accept no compromise. Most features of a 21st century car are deal-breakers and red lines I won't cross. Most annoying for me is any computer at all! But 80's cars weren't as convenient to buy as the 90's one when I needed one in a hurry.
I don't do new for the sake of buying new. If I want something better quality than that available new, I go to the past. Some examples include my 40 year old sewing machine, 55 year old record player, 100 year old pocket watch, 150 year old wardrobe and the clothes I make myself!
I think building my own car is a bit beyond my skill level though 🙂
Need headlight regulations 😢
Yes, most modern headlighht are blinding for oncoming cars. No matter what they claim, 90 to 95% of modern cars coming my way on the road blind me and makes me just geus where the roads is.
One New LED replacement costs $1500 , but a sealed beam or lightbulb costs less than $50. Please standardize lights to low cost designs
And no more needing to remove the front bumper in order to change the front bulbs.
@jeffwalther2023 yup i had a mitsubishi colt from 98, all you had to do to change the light bulbs was take the whole fitting out of the back of the light, it took 10 sec to change a bulb in that car it was amazing.
@ericrouillard3784 But LED works ~30 times more than a bulb, resulting to aproximately same replacement costs over time.
Flush door handles...🤬
Thank God that may be going away soon. The Chinese will ban them starting January 1, 2027, and I believe EuroNCAP may dock safety points for using them and the US Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards may be updated to ban them.
China has just banned them in new cars
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It's more electric door latches than flush handles that are the problem
I don't want a giant tv screen that controls anything. A small phone sized screen that handles satnav is the most tech integration I want.
Yeah and even most people still use their phone for navigation cause google maps is just the best anyway, so all we need is for them to give us a free phone holder.
I wanted to be in the meetings when manufacturers decided on supplying space saver wheels. Penny pinching more like as 9/10 times the space for a full size is just occupied by a lump of foam.
Thank God - who thought any of the touch screen innovations are not distracting?
The only new feature I really like is the head-up display projected on the windscreen so I do not need to take my eyes off the road for any speed or navigational information.
In my car the touchscreen tells you to not watch it because it takes your eyes off the road. 🤔
The so-called push button hand brakes are terrible.
I've only once used them on a temporary car hire.. Never again, if I see a push button hand brake in a can, that's it...
It was having one on a hire car that prompted me to buy one. I think they're great. Mine comes on automatically anyway, so I never need to even think about it. That, along with hill assist, is great. That's my experience anyway.
As a mechanic nobody in my sector thought these gimiks were going to last sort of like electric cars but that's still up for debate
*gimmicks. 🤣
@raybeer5213could you tell I was halfway through an 8 hour hgv clutch change 😅😅
scrap electric handbrakes and that annoying stop start feature
Yeaaa, stop start is shit indeed
@popokatapetl6995it was the first thing I disabled when I bought the current vehicle
Yes, yes, yes
I honestly don't see what the big deal is. I don't even use mine. It operates itself. Causes me no inconvenience whatsoever. In fact, now I don't need to crawl under my car every 6 months to adjust the damn thing, like I had to do with cable-operated ones
Along with Dacia, another company that never followed the flow in all those nonsense is Suzuki. A Suzuki Vitara still has standard hydraulic wheel, fog lghts, knobs, a handbreak, the LOT!
Hydraulic wheel?
Suzuki have always been sticklers for traditional engineering in their cars, I wonder if the rotary engine debacle with the RE5 motorcycle has made them wary of innovation for innovations sake.
@michaelbenardo5695
Hydraulic steering contra electric steering perhaps.
Why the F would anyone want hydraulic power steering?
Does the same thing as EPS but is more complicated and less reliable.
Not quite everything. My 2007 Swift Sport had the dumb can of Tyre Weld rather than a Spare Wheel...
Our neighbor's Subaru shut down it's ENTIRE electrical system on our private road. The woman got he car stopped using the regular brake, but had no power assist. That was OK at the low speed and the flat drive.
But she could not get out of the car! Oh, yes, the doors would open. But the transmission was electronically shifted. so she could not shift into park.
Oh, well, you say, just set the parking brake... Except it was electronically set. She could not get out of he car as there was NO WAY TO KEEP IT FROM ROLLING. And she could not hit her horn to attract attention to have someone chock her wheels. She had to call her husband, who called me to go out and help. With a clear curb, I told her to turn the wheels towards the curb, and ease the car forward (by gravity) until she was against the curb and stopped (she was asking why she did not think of that). I have now seen two Subarus (this and another one) with electrical bus failure.
NO brakes? Oh, good, just use your hand brake. Oh.... No hand brake. Not so good.
People LOVE my 85 Toyota. Manual windows (which have never failed). Manual locks (that have NEVER needed service or replacement). Dash levers (instead of dials or push buttons) that operate physical cables to change heat and venting. One DID fail a few years ago. $34 for the part and less than an hour to install. My 2006 Dodge turbo diesel lost the ability to defrost the front window. A $2600 repair, and days to complete. No, thank you.
Having an electronic e - brake that is software interlocked with the car so it can't be applied while the car is in motion sort of defeats the very function of an emergency brake.
That's true cause the actual brakes could fail
It's not an emergency brake it's a parking brake.
The handbrake was never intended as an emergency brake. It's to stop the car rolling when it isn't in motion. ,Americans started calling it an emergency brake, but that's not what it is.
I'm surprised they didn't put the steering wheel on a bloody touchscreen
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Shhh, don't give 'em any more daft ideas.
😂😂😂 imagine the "possibilities"... You could have a Ferrari wheel in a civic @knottyal2428
/This is all sarcasm BTW.. my 2013 Suzuki Swift is decades ahead of these screens with physical buttons/
Considering the wheel is wired into the computer and not the wheels themselves, they kinda did.
Analog dials should be mandated as well.
I had to buy a full-size spare wheel from the local scrapyard. The guy even threw in a free jack!
Be careful with the jack. Make sure it’s exactly right for the car. I had one in a car I bought and I didn’t know it wasn’t right. Jacked the car up and it spat it out and dropped about 3-4 inches with a big bang. Scared the shit out of me. It was one of those crappy half scissor jacks POS things. Always thought they were dangerous and bloody glad I didn’t have the wheel off when it dropped.
Make sure to get a quality stand to go with.
Hear me out, few years ago while driving on the country side, my alloy wheel hit a pothole and it bent the wheel.
It swapped the damaged wheel with the "full-size" spare wheel and i was back on the road in 20 minutes.
A repair kit would have been useless on a bent wheel.
If i had to wait for a recovery truck, it would have probably taken 4h (i was in the country side)
Now my "new" car is a MPV with no spare wheel but a repair kit, I've never used such device.
The instructions are printed in small letters, barely visible (Still useless on a damaged wheel).
I need to be fair though, the 3rd row folding seats take the space for a potential spare wheel.
Another point i want to make is that cars are getting fatter, heavier, tires are huge nowadays.
It would be impossible to get a "full size" spare wheel, and even the "pancake" spare might not be good for many cars.
Also a full size spare wheel is heavy, women or elderly people can't lift that, they will have to ask for assistance for sure.
What about physical dials for air con? That should also be mandatory. I change my aircon settings all, the time. And for audio too is a must
Most cars have the key audio settings on the steering wheel.
You can get heavily fined for using your phone when driving, but not for scrolling through multiple touch screens to just adjust your heaters. It madness. I'm glad car manufacturers are dropping that BS... and dont get me started on E-hand brakes, I literally hate them 😂
All automobile manufacturers need to bring back actual buttons on knobs.
And don't forget retrackteble door handles!
just been outlawed in china!!
As an apprentice truck mechanic in 1966 working for British Railways, remember them? New AEC trucks came with an analogue oil level gauge. A few seized engines later dip sticks were retro fitted. There is nothing new.
Commer trucks from the 50’s had an oil level gauge operated by a fuel sender like unit.
10:14: More often than not, a parking brake (with handle) fail means no brake, which means you can drive to a mechanic to fix it. While an electronic parking brake fail, means, wheels won't release.
Yea, that’s a common problem unfortunately
They will prise my manual gearbox and physical handbrake out of my cold dead fingers, I do not feel safe driving an automatic car that will surge forward if the accelerator is pressed accidentally - which happens more often than people think especially as drivers get older. Having to set the car up for roundabouts and junctions means that you're able to act to changing situations rather than getting into the habit or reacting late, making drivers safer.
Manufacturers and the governments don't want the driver to have much control when it comes to things that effect emissions and mileage . They can regulate those much easier in cars with automatics, e.g. getting into the higher gears as quickly as possible when moving off from a light. Don't even get me started on engine auto-stop functions ( pretty sure impossible with a manual ) . Plus, some governmental entities just don't want you to have fun , rowing your own.
So basically people prefer systems, accessories and buttons that engage their senses. Who would’ve thought that
Biggest error & Safety issue is Lane assist not being turned off permanently , OFF MEANS OFF , not back on when you start the car again !
What if you're avoiding a collision from a idiot moving in your lane & your trying to avoid them & lane assist is fighting the steering to keep you in the lane , who's the moron that came up with that idea 😡
That idiot in your lane could be there BECAUSE OF lane assist.. My dad has a 2025 model Xpeng G6 Performance.. If it's not disabled, you will be battered with warnings that you are departing your lane, and the car actually tries to steer you into the opposing lane/traffic! It makes for a horrible notchy and tiering steering feal.. in the EU/EEC area as far as I have come to understand the EU has mandated that it is turned on EVERY time you start the car 😞
ISA (Intelligent Speed Assistance) is an other feature that is more irritating than helpful even though it might not be as big of a security risk as Lane Assist I view it as just a nanny-state gimmick.. it goes off when the speedometer shows 1 Km/h above the speed limit, which means that due to the speedometers (at least in Europe) are calibrated to show around 3-4 Km/h more that your actual speed, which in turn means that the ISA "alarm bells" goes off on you BEFORE you even reach the speed limit..
I was driving a rental ram pick up and there is one curve on the way to work that I've been taking right down on the fog line for 8 years, the lane assist almost forced me into a head on collision. Same truck if you tried to move it with the door open it would put the shifter back in park...suddenly
@TheTronder007 He could also be in your lane because he DIDN'T have lane assist and momentarily fell asleep at the wheel. Happens more often than you might think.
@grahamlive Yes, both are real possibilities, but most people I've talked with says that.. the Lane assist systems do not work well..
at least this is the experience here in Norway, it gets real tiering real quick when you have to fight the car all the way from where you start and until you reach your destination.. It's a real problem even on the main roads here in Norway, not to mention all the narrow smaller roads here in Norway..
Really hope some of this is accurate, particularly regarding the touchscreens. Had to drive around in a hire car couple years back and the stupid bloody touch screen that covered half the dash did my head in. Particularly at night. Nothing like having a large screen TV screaming for your attention as you try to navigate roads in the dark.
And what about the government mandated lane assist that you have to fight constantly. Lane assist does not work on rural roads and has to be switched off (usually a lengthy and distracting process). It has also be been proved to be lethal when the car thinks it knows better than the driver and causes a crash.
One of many reasons we chose our new car. The lane assist is far less aggressive than many other cars and can be turned off with a simple press of a steering wheel button. People need to be more thorough when comparison shopping.
I drove a newer work vehicle for the first time a couple of years ago, no idea what silly features it had. Large truck came along, occupying a part of my side of the road, so I just eased over the fog line to give it space. The car nearly threw me under it, but I was able to fight it. Took me ages to work out how to disable it.
I'll never buy a car without a FULL size spare tire
Back to the basics is best. Less is more. Making driving enjoying again. You in control not the car electrickery
Physical buttons are massive help to muscle-memory. With touch-screens, tactile feedback is absent.
Other things that are not needed. The only electric window needed is the passenger front. You don't need electric seats or heated seats. You don't need rear boot doors that open and close themselves. On small cars up to 1600cc at least you don't need rear disc brakes. Get rid of wet belts. I'll think of more as soon as I post!😊
I surely need heated seat. The winter is quite harsh here.
@laurradu868 You softie!!😂😂
@LeinsterExileneah, just old. 😊
@laurradu868ok, you can have electric seats😊
@LeinsterExilethank you 🎉
Will not buy a car without a spare wheel.
I will not by one with ANY computer in it.
There are plenty of sites where you can buy one. I bought one for my Kia Sportage for £100. How much would Kia add to the price if they included it? More than £100, I'd wager.
I read the comment of the older guy and I absolutely agree with our fellow. I also have to say that it's not only older people that don't want screens while driving. I'm 31 and I have an absolute basic car as my first one. No screens, no stupid electronics, no touch screens/touch panels, no unnecessary electronic driving aids. Just buttons for the electric windows, a basic radio with an Aux jack, a manual handbrake and some big climate control buttons (with an orange backlit panel, which comes in very handy at night, it's very atmospheric). Plus ABS/EBD, CSC (Cornering Stability Control) and a simple 5-speed manual transmission to complement the Japanese, naturally aspirated, 998cc, chain-driven Inline-3. And that's it! You don't need anything more than these features for every day! 😎
Bring back the handbrake.
Until you have experienced an electronic malfunction with the electric handbrake, you have no idea how important it is to have a functional handbrake.
Also knobs and switches.
Impossible to change radio station's while driving and navigating a complex menu screen.
My brother is a truck driver and he had a failure of an electric brake on a Renault truck, imagine how that felt.
Yeeeeeeees finally physical controls back 😅😅😅😅😅
Physical keys should be mandated for safety as they are a lot harder to nick over keyless.
Not really. A lock cylinder is very easy to pick, and often only requiring raking. On more modern cylinders there are tools anyone can buy to defeat them. That's assuming it was designed well enough to prevent using a slim Jim or piece of wire.
That's why I have a Japanese car
Suzuki S-cross until 2022 (no hybrid)
The Japanese are the ones who started all of this love of electronics.
That's why I don't have a new car, and wont buy one until these stupid things dissappear!
6:44 is it a €250 sensor or a €2 sensor?
Next they need to look at removing the distracting ding dongs and beepers! My ford tells me regularly my hands are not on the steering wheel even when they are.
OMG, BMW takes the piss with their stupid din dongs. They have one for everything.
The mechanical handbrake should always be fitted, it was once called an emergency brake.
It was once wrongly called an emergency brake. They were never designed to stop you in an emergency. Your footbrake is your emergency brake. Always was. Just press it harder
What car manufacture’s are getting wrong is they never write to a customer and ask them how they like a certain model and why the chose that particular model ,or why they chose from a different manufacturer. If they knew customer hated complicated basic functions hidden in touchscreen that kept them from getting modern cars and keeping their older cars longer
Imo they were trying to tell us what we had to buy instead of what wanted. They didn't ask because they didn't care. They don't want to sell base models. They will make a few for the adverts!! They ALWAYS WANT TO UP SELL YOU TO THE MORE EXPENSIVE MODELS!!
A good few years ago AMG was asked why they'd never built a manual C63 and they replied they'd asked their customers who'd bought a (an auto!!) C63 and the customers had said they where quite happy with the auto, obviously those wanting a similar manual car had gone and bought an M3!!!!
If they did that, we'd all still be starting engines with starting handles. There'd be 1930 versions of today's Luddites saying, "Oooh, I don't like these new-fangled key things"
It appears that the "dipsticks" went from under the bonnet into the boardrooms.🙄
Don’t buy a modern car, electronic & tech in them = unreliable pain in the butt !
Now we only have to destroy subscriptions for integrated Car features on a monthly basis . . .
That should be regarded as criminality.
The only things that should be operated on a screen is my computer and my smartphone. Everything else could operate on levers, knobs buttons or switches. No need to reinvent the wheel
Touch screens require you to look at them, buttons you can feel while looking at the road. Common sense, the rarest element in the modern world
Fortunately my 6 year old Vitara still has all these features
Can we end cars that need the front bumper removed in order to replace the headlight bulbs?
New upcoming generation of Mazda CX-5 is fully loaded with screens and no buttons anymore......
Well I guess I won't be going for a cx5 when I decide to trade in my mazda 3 sp25 in 10 years, maybe I'll get another mazda 3🤔
No thanks, I'll stick too my 2008 Mitsubishi Colt.
Dials, buttons & a foot controlled hand brake. I absolutely love it.
New cars are rubbish. No thanks
You couldn't give me a current generation Mazda. I say that as a long-term Mazda fan, long before I bought my first one in 1983. Since then Mazda was always at the top of the comparison list each time I was shopping for a new vehicle, and I've owned seven total as a result. All were well built, reliable, and fun to drive, as were the models other family members owned.
Sadly the Kodo design inverted Mazda's former philosophy of quality, practicality, and driveability first and style second, so now they are cool looking but cramped, awkward, and have poorer build quality compared to previous generations.
@RealBLAlleyas well I couldn't belive when I saw the new CX-5..... 😢
Everything went to hell when Manual gearboxes and Vent windows were removed.
Trouble is that car design is in the hands of younger people who have been brought up in the iPad era. Anything analogue is out straight away. In general terms new cars are bought by Companies or lease companies, those with disposable incomes ie. the retired or established middle aged. Young people with families have differing priorities. The disparity between the designers and the customers is obvious. Buyers want analogue they don’t want expensive servicing and black box replacements.
A printed owner's manual you can keep in the glovebox.
I know what you mean. I had a tablet bought for me for Xmas years ago when they were something new. It took ages to set it up because it had no instruction book. After faffing about for an hour and finally getting it up and running, the first thing that popped up on the screen was a message "Do you want to watch a video of how to set up the tablet?" I wanted to see that an hour ago before I set up the tablet. I complained once that the new PC I had bought had no instructions. "It's in a file on the hard drive" I was told. What if it was the first PC I had ever had? These people have less intelligence than a pea.
Curiously no one is mentioning the worst of them all. Normal doorhandles or a mechanical door handle system. That do not depend on some ECU/electronic opening system.
Specially on EV's, the amount of people that already died burned on a car fire. Without being able to get out of the vehicle. By their own means is absolutely shocking. First responders also struggle since the car can't be opened from the outside either!
YT is loaded with images of car accidents where the occupants barely escaped usually by the efforts of some courageous souls that risked their own lives to break glasses and remove the victims!
Adding complexity while reducing safety and reliability is beyond idiotic. The fact those cars require a complex process just to open the door if the battery is dead is ridiculous.
Manual transmission and hand brake!! Please!
And about time too.. but I won't be buying any post 2016 car in the next ten years... Handbrakes, real door handles, physical buttons, spare tyres, yes please.
And l fitted a full size spare and a dash mat the day l got the car.
Door handles. not buttons - acccessable ones not dependant on the battery condition
Two days ago women crashed into a truck in norway with a tesla, she burned alive , car burned half an hour maybe.. no way to get in or out or put out a lithium fire
You can feel for a physical control, muscle memory.
A touch screen needs you to look at it and take your eyes off the road. Same as a phone which is illegal.
Very dangerous.
On a BMW, the dipstick is behind the steering wheel
That is not a dipstick.
Every feature that relies on a sensor, a computer module or a touch screen, is going to cost you. When a touch screen fails, everything fails. When a computer fails, everything fails.
Now we just need someone to do something about the blinding headlights and then I'll consider spending the money...and maybe go back to driving at nights.
Those ridiculous LED headlights will cause a major accident one day.
When are we going to get stereos back ?
My Kia Cerato has front and rear fog lights,and is a 6 speed manual.Manual vehicles are beginning to become an endangered species.
I have never driven an auto that goes into the gear that I want in _every_ situation _all_ the time. That decision has been made by some engineer for an auto manufacturer.
It feels like in the las 15 years all car manufacturers have been building cars for iPad babys that don't even drive.
LEDheadlights are shite, they are too bright and dazzle oncoming drivers, even when dimmed, blue white colour LED is terrible. Using bright LED's indiscriminately across the front of a vehicle seriously damages night vision. I'm looking at the Hyundai Tucson as the worst offender. A triumph of style over functionality, count them, there are at least 20.. Any driver over 50 will tell you how hard night driving has become. I had a Volvo V60 with LED lights and the lights were no better than a 2021 E class and auto dipping is another thing that needs to go in the bin.
My beef : making Daytime Running Lights mandatory but not covering the lights under warranty.
I like it! Thumbs up and I hope CCTV, DVR and DDR will become new global standard for safety riding.
Another feature which should go are the automatic start/stop systems.
Every stop the hot oil flows away just before restarting again.
That has been repealed.
The manufacturers are at last getting the message that in motoring less is more. Some real sense being put into them.
Is this a Dacia advert?
I despise my car's touchscreen , especially for radio . luckily I also got actual buttons for radio , climate , user settings for drive assist . and engine auto turnoff . thankyou renault
Manual gear, handbrake, mechanical controls, ability to replace every critical lighbulb at the side of the road. If they can't deliver than I'll just shop for some eastern manufacturer. Try to tow a trailer in bad weather or on uneven road with DSG and find out how much that joy cost you.
Mechanical door handles, keys, dials buttons gauges, manual transmission, hand brakes, electronics only when it really matters. User friendly DIY repair. Option for replaceable light bubs only, not the entire assembly. Accessible parts, no plastics. I could go on and on. Bring back 90s cars. I am sure there will be a market for this.
Also along with the front and rear fog lights every car should have two rear reversing lights, not just one. Reversing through a narrow gap you need both sides well illuminated!
And why are some cars now being produced with ridiculously small indicator lights right up against the other lights which makes them harder to see and in some cars impossible.
This report is encouraging - thank you! It is beyond rational thought as to why a simple dip stick would be removed from engine and transmission oil level.
Great video. What is a levver?
😂😂
Americanish for a lever. It's AI speak again.
@knottyal2428It is awfully annoying.
I have hear about the war in Eye-Rack,Jagwaaar,Hunda,Toyoda and Feeyaat.
I still miss the foot operated dip switch
Ban all tft screens totally immediately
When I did Mots an electric handbrake would have been a failure, it had to be a mechanical secondary braking system completely separate from the hydraulic system.
Get rid of CVTs and third row seating