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Ashtrays occupy valuable real estate in dashboards/consoles. I know designers are often frustrated because they have to include an ashtray in a dash or console - they would rather use that space for something else.
Some manufacturers have eliminated them - along with lighters (although they still retain power ports). Buyers can usually request them, often (always?) free of charge. I believe at one point - maybe still - Corvettes did not have ashtrays. Smokers who requested them could get one that could be inserted into a cupholder (thus rendering the cupholder essentially useless).
For the record, the ashtray in my daily driver is used to hold change & a small bottle of Purell. The ashtray in my 911 has never been used for anything in the 12 years I have owned it.
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Doug Miller
1988 Guards Red Carrera
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