Most of the time it's just the 1st gear, useful in some conditions where you want constant high torque or easy to control low speed. And even fwd cars might have it (like the fwd version of Volvo V70)
I'm seriously concerned about upgrading my car because of this shit. I'm glad the wranglers still have almost everything with physical buttons in addition to the screen controls
Even Wranglers have gotten worse with the 2025 refresh, though. There's just no escaping it.
The most infuriating part is that consumers don't even want touch screens. I believe there have been surveys that have concluded that people prefer hard buttons and knobs by a wide margin.
Absolutely! I can blindly control nearly everything in my car from muscle memory. I can't do that with the touch screen vehicles I spend 45 hours a week repairing and every single one of them is the same.
I've been new car shopping recently. It sucks. Everything is touch everything, basic shit like AC is behind 3 different screens on the idiotically named infotainment screen, and if you want slightly older car so you have tactile controls? $27,000 with 80,000+ miles on it because fuck you.
Get the 2022 model of whatever. Late enough to have CarPlay and important safety features but early enough to not have all touch screen everything. I got a suburb forester before they remodeled, love it.
I recently replaced my shitbox 2011 Ford Focus with a 2025 Corolla Cross and it has physical buttons and switches for almost everything, the only thing you have to do on the touchscreen is the radio and CarPlay (obviously). Couldn’t get a manual transmission but that’s pretty much impossible these days anyway.
She was pointing right at the shifter when asking where it was. She was pointing right at the HVAC controls on the screen when asking how to control HVAC. While I don't care for screen controls, this is silly rage bait.
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u/weedtrek 14h ago
It's not funny, it's accurate and sad.