Challenge: new car options nobody would ever actually choose
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A family member is deciding between a new 911 Turbo and Bentley GT V8, so we spent some time over a drink on the websites building ideal cars.
Anyway, it turns out that with the new Porsche you can have... drum roll please... leather airvents. Leather airvents! Airvents, trimmed in leather!! For £801!!!
Ignore the price for a moment, it's no doubt petty cash for those who can afford the car, but who in the hell thinks "yeah, nice car, but those airvents, I'm not sold - could you trim them in leather?"
OK, the launch car for the motorshows probably had every possible option bolted and stitched on, but I can't see why anyone actually wanting this throughout the production run.
So my evening challenge to you - find and report back ridiculously pointless and ludicrously priced options you are convinced nobody would ever actually tick the box for!
Anyway, it turns out that with the new Porsche you can have... drum roll please... leather airvents. Leather airvents! Airvents, trimmed in leather!! For £801!!!
Ignore the price for a moment, it's no doubt petty cash for those who can afford the car, but who in the hell thinks "yeah, nice car, but those airvents, I'm not sold - could you trim them in leather?"
OK, the launch car for the motorshows probably had every possible option bolted and stitched on, but I can't see why anyone actually wanting this throughout the production run.
So my evening challenge to you - find and report back ridiculously pointless and ludicrously priced options you are convinced nobody would ever actually tick the box for!
Matt UK said:
AIgnore the price for a moment, it's no doubt petty cash for those who can afford the car, but who in the hell thinks "yeah, nice car, but those airvents, I'm not sold - could you trim them in leather?"
Me. I absolutely love that sort of crap. I wouldnt spec them because I couldn't get over the £801 cost but if they were considerably cheaper or available as part of some sort of 'cover the entire dash and everything in leather' option pack I'd definately go for that. Extended leather dashboards are awesome.Fox- said:
Matt UK said:
AIgnore the price for a moment, it's no doubt petty cash for those who can afford the car, but who in the hell thinks "yeah, nice car, but those airvents, I'm not sold - could you trim them in leather?"
Me. I absolutely love that sort of crap. I wouldnt spec them because I couldn't get over the £801 cost but if they were considerably cheaper or available as part of some sort of 'cover the entire dash and everything in leather' option pack I'd definately go for that. Extended leather dashboards are awesome.
t encourages bad driving.I'm thinking options available that if anyone actually ticked the box, the paperwork would travel around with the entire organisation scratching their heads, thinking 'wtf order code is "lea/av50934B"?' whilst sending office juniors down into the basement to dig out the original archived sign off and launch materials 
Actually, Porsche seem to be the master at this sort of thing - seriously?
Leather Fuse box cover £ 178.00
Headlight cleaning system covers painted in deviating exterior colour £ 138.00
Alcantara belt outlet trims finish in colour of B-/C-pillar £ 259.00
Nobody has ever ticked these boxes. Ever.
Leather Fuse box cover £ 178.00
Headlight cleaning system covers painted in deviating exterior colour £ 138.00
Alcantara belt outlet trims finish in colour of B-/C-pillar £ 259.00
Nobody has ever ticked these boxes. Ever.
Panoramic roof with "magic sky" on the wife's new SLK. Even the dealer told us not to spectre "magic sky" bit as it doesn't really go that dark!!!
We still took the panoramic roof just not the dimming glass at the touch of a button! Saved £750 I think!
ETA just checked spec and price list £1995 for magic roof!!!
We still took the panoramic roof just not the dimming glass at the touch of a button! Saved £750 I think!
ETA just checked spec and price list £1995 for magic roof!!!
CrowCrow00 said:
I picked maroon and silver leather seats on my old Fiesta at a cost of £850 
They did a lower-spec limited edition with it as standard, but mine was the only one I've seen with it as an optional extra.
That's got to be the very definition of something that sounds dreadful but is actually terrific. Well chosen!They did a lower-spec limited edition with it as standard, but mine was the only one I've seen with it as an optional extra.
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