News to me....none of my cars have that feature...

That's great until it thinks something is coming when it isn't and stops the car for you. Can be jarring to a passenger (ie my MIL) who freaks about the force of the stop.

Actually, I like having it beep at me if I exit the car with the lights left on.

My Jetta has just about every gadget I could desire, almost.

It has heated seats and side mirrors. I wish they weren't black leatherette, they can melt your skin if you park in the sun in the summer.

It has Android Auto. As stated earlier, it is so much better than any automaker's system, and the updates are automatic and free.

Push button start. Someone asked. A quick push will turn on the car without starting it, so you can open the windows and sunroof. The radio stays on and the windows still work when you shut the car off, it lasts 5 or 10 minutes or until you open the driver's door. One thing I miss is on other cars when you pull the key out the interior lights come on without opening a door. I'm not sure how you'd implement that with the push button.

Touch unlock / lock. Touch the inside of the driver's door handle, it unlocks. Touch it again, the rest of the doors unlock. Touch the back of the passenger door handle once, all the doors unlock. Either one, the interior lights come on as well. Touch the outside of either front door handle, all the doors lock. Same deal with the trunk. Grab it, if you have the fob in your pocket, it opens.

Blind spot mirrors / backup camera / rear movement detection. The first two are self explanatory. The third - if you're in reverse and there's motion behind you, it beeps at you. Car or pedestrian. It doesn't apply the brakes.

One touch up/down power windows. All windows.

Hill hold. If the car is on an incline, and you have a foot on the brake and the clutch in, the brake will stay on after you take your foot off the brake until you release the clutch. I didn't know I needed it, but it's handy.

TPMS. It uses the ABS sensors, so if one tire leaks down, it will alert you, but not right away. You still have to be smart enough to notice a flat tire before you drive away. Also, if you're in a pandemic and you don't drive or maintain the car for several weeks, and it gets cold out and now all the tires are about 20 psi, it won't alert you. You have to notice the mushy steering. But at least you aren't buying expensive sensors or going through a complicated procedure when swapping or rotating your tires.

Things I wish it had, but it doesn't.
Set to a temp climate control. It still has the old cold/hot crank knob. Fancier VWs have it.
A decent armrest. This one is too short and too far back.
Remote start? Tough to implement with a manual transmission.
A compass. Sometimes there's a compass when android auto is on, but when you're first starting out it doesn't know which way the car is pointed, and it says "Head North", not "Head left toward". WTF direction is north, Android?

More power. But then again, the 1.4 turbo gets over 40mpg on the highway, can't complain about that.

I've thought about trading it for a newer GTI or GLI, but now that I'm working from home I've thought about just selling it and driving the truck, which now might get driven once a month.

I don't need the lane departure warning, or maybe I do. the wife's car beeps at me all the time until I turn it off.
It beeps if you leave the headlights on. The SAAB would just turn them off when you removed the key.

A few of the necessities on my DD:

Heated seats
Ventilated seats
Heated steering wheel
Massaging seats (ridiculous)
Gesture control. Twirl your finger around and the volume goes up or down depending on direction of twirl. (Really ridiculous).

How can you live without those?!?

yup, I was taught to use the mirrors, the camera makes me uneasy. The sensors are great.

Two, that are standard on my 94 Isuzu Trooper...

Electric fold in door mirrors
side headlights that kick on with turn signals.

Remote start. And it's not even cold where I live.

my mistake.
I was told once it was.
Well then, both country's should adopt this.

I hate driving on a dark overcast rainy day and a silver or gray car suddenly appears.

A clutch or two.
Limited slip diff(s)
4 wheel disc brakes
Sunroof delete option
Aluminum cylinder block and heads or rotor casings
Retina searing high beam bulbs that dim themselves
Footwell lighting
Floor pans from weathertech
Aluminum or carbon bodywork
Stainless steel chassis frame
Fog light delete option
Active displacement/cylinder management delete option

Electronic exhaust cutouts

Double-din radio openings.

rjp

I also like the automatic head light shut off. Once key is pulled, headlights automatically goes off. There were couple times in my life that require a trip to the battery shop.

Directional indicators. It seems many cars are not equipped with them.

The obvious being a manual transmission!

I love these 2 features in my 2006 Civic Si....speed sensitive intermittent wipers. They change the wipe speed based on how fast your driving so if you have a decent wipe going on and come to a stop they slow down a good bit but not enough that you won’t see traffic, etc.
The second is speed sensitive stereo. It’ll increase the volume as you speed up and slow down, after all this is a non-luxury car so it’s loud on some roads. And the other nice feature is if you turn the car off with the radio blaring a turn down of the volume brings is all the way down when you start the car.

Touché! You win this thread.

WAIT! WHAT? Electric cars make noises that sounds like engines? Really? This is Bull Sheiss right?

up here where it snows: heated steering wheel is amazing. heated seats a must and not sure if it counts but remote start is essential when i was driving to work every morning in winter.

in summer my ventilated seats are nice but don’t really do a whole lot

love the intermittent wiper on my 911 also though it’s only been used a few times

Back-up cameras on a new car is a good think ONLY because newer cars have very high waistlines and also wider B and C pillars with airbags.

Olders cars that have a much larger glass house and thinner pillars, did not require this

BTW, all cars made after May 2018 and sold in the US are required to have back up cameras

intermittent wipers