touch screens are absolute shit. They're distractions. Mechanical switches and buttons are safer, faster and better.
Hey look buddy. I got a witty response but you gotta wait for me to use my long distance calling card to hit my dial up ISP first.
Are you people really lacking that much in dexterity that touching a screen is so much more dangerous than turning a knob? Nearly 100% of cars have hands-free controls on the steering wheel anyway.
I don’t mind looking at my touchscreen while I drive the F350 super duty to the grocery store. I actually wish it could play YouTube videos on it while I’m driving.
Need a good mix of both imo. Radio can be touch screen but I don't want to have to maneuver through menus to turn the AC down
I personally have not been in one, but I would like more electric range from it for my daily drive to consider one.
Ac fan knob to turn down in drive thru, other than that it needs to stay on auto Volume knob Or mute button mostly for same purpose Tune knob is nice with sirius xm to find random stations Other than that I'm good with the steering wheel controls for most everything else I would like my damn gear shift lever back though
I saw a guy last week at the grocery store getting in his, so I had to ask him about it. He said he's had his for about 8 months and it's one of the best car purchases he's ever made. I ask his opinion on the hybrid motor and he said "I get 40 mpg, what do you think." I've been intrigued by them ever since they came out because I need to get back into a truck (especially since job changing last year), but I don't need a full size truck.
"buttons and dials should be removed and instead built into a touch-screen" is a wild take, whether ITT or by auto designers. Screens do open up some advanced features...and having Carplay and navigation type stuff is table stakes now, but terrible design to move everything into a screen: All off these basic functions are being removed as buttons. wipers! shifting gears AC/Heat defrost etc heated seats lock/unlock and child lock open trunk/sunroof etc I've seen on tesla has you change AC vent direction on the screen. Surely it's not locked behind a screen? Insane if so.
I literally bought a Mercedes that was one year older than I was planning just because the newer model no longer has a single button to skip to the next song. The incredulity at this stupid design made for some good chat discussions at M-B message boards from people who bought the new model not knowing this 'feature'. I'm okay with the display for advanced functions I would never do while driving, but I'm not buying a car that put basic functions on a goddamn touchscreen.
In the market again for a new car as my X5 was totaled. I can’t say the touchscreen had anything to do with it but I can’t say it didn’t either.
The new Mazdas have touchscreens FWIW. You just have to enable it in settings. Still prefer the dial to it, though.
I liked the dial design on ours that we had. Was easily intuitive while driving instead of punching a screen hoping it registered your touch.
Not an option in our '23 Carbon CX-5 but I guess it is with the 24's? In my CX-5 I use either one depending on the situation. In the wife's there are moments when using carpllay where it just takes forever to use the wheel where I'd prefer the touchscreen.
Looks like you're right. 23' CX-5s don't but the 24's do. My 23 CX-50 has it, so I assumed all models in that year did as well. Either way, the CX-70s/90s do have them, if that was a negative for you.
It was one of those things I picked just to say something that wasn't so glowing. It's really not a big deal although I am honored to spark a fiery debate over knobs and touching. But it did make me think of some legitimate negatives. Remote start feature with the app is somewhat unreliable. Seems to not work around 30% of the time my wife tries to use it. USB is shaky with the carplay. Spend a bit more for the wireless option.
Touchscreens are cheaper than physical buttons/knobs, so they'll be around forever unless people bitch about it. I had a 2011 Mercedes wagon. Very good ergonomics, everything made sense, it's German so there's like 10 ways to do one thing. My inlaws have a 2022 GLE. That damn thing is so hard to figure out: everything is a screen, gotta go through a ton of menus, etc. It's garbage. Also one reason why all our cars now are 2000s or sorta retro tech (looking at you, 3rd gen Sienna).
Update: It stopped starting and I sold it to one of those "we buy junk cars" places for $500! Transaction was very easy, went well. Used peddle.com
We picked up our new Atlas last weekend. 0.9% interest. Very happy. sold my beater in private sale for 3-4x what any dealer had offered in trade.
has anyone bought one of those new Land cruisers yet? They are really growing on me and I will be searching for a new car soon....
Here's the enthusiast forum for all things Land Cruise, I've linked to the direct sub-forum for the 250 series Land Cruiser/GX550: https://forum.ih8mud.com/forums/gx550-land-cruiser-250.342/
Didn’t think I’d like it after not loving the land cruiser but we stopped by a Lexus dealer to look at an LX and saw a gx overtrail plus that was already sold and put down a deposit for one set to arrive sept 30th-Oct19. I wanted to love the LX but neither my wife or I liked it. Below is the one we put the deposit on
I was simply posting the build sheet. It is for my wife. I have a whole lot better cars to post if I’m trying to flex
Trading in the wife's car next week. Getting a Carmax quote today, then seeing if the dealer can match when we trade in. Any other places to maximize value for a trade-in? Car is probably worth $10-15k so not anything crazy and not sure we want to do a private sale, but if there's a known, reliably better spot than Carmax, we don't want to miss it Also, of course, but she accidentally ran it into a dumpster a couple months ago and it left a ding and scratch on the back. We were quoted $1,400 to fix it which seemed insane but they made a big deal about it going across two panels, so its double the work, etc. Will they ding the value by roughly that amount. more, or less?
Carvana will give an online quote like CarMax too. I sold a car to CarMax about a month ago from an online quote with them and the whole process from entering the store to them inspecting and then signing papers/giving me a check was like 35 minutes. It was insanely easy.