Mar 30, 2026 · 52 min · 12 segments
Every year, manufactures launch new features that we usually don’t know that we want. Sometimes, these features are so effective and popular, they disrupt an industry and become government-mandated…
Jason CammisaHostThere'll be noise in the background because the guys next door are chopping up bodies or something.
And you can actually hear and feel the motor, which is something you can on most cars.
And that started a whole tirade in my head about manufacturers who save three cents.
So I've been getting a lot of press cars lately and nothing irritates me more than some $40,000 fucking car like the Subaru that I had a couple weeks ago that I quite liked, but only had auto up or auto down on one window.
I just want to grab the product planner by their throat and say, how much did you save? Was it 12 cents per car or was it a dollar per car? Because this is an annoyance that I will have to live with for the next 72 months or however long I finance this car.
inexpensive to do? My question also perhaps is, is it more expensive to make two different versions of the window switch when they could just do one version and use it on all four windows? This is the opposite of the Mercedes way where the windows, have you noticed the old Mercedes window switches where the left and the right ones are different because the windows are pointed different ways and they want it to be symmetrical? Have you ever noticed this? No, I never noticed that.
There'll be noise in the background because the guys next door are chopping up bodies or something.
And you can actually hear and feel the motor, which is something you can on most cars.
And that started a whole tirade in my head about manufacturers who save three cents.
So I've been getting a lot of press cars lately and nothing irritates me more than some $40,000 fucking car like the Subaru that I had a couple weeks ago that I quite liked, but only had auto up or auto down on one window.
I just want to grab the product planner by their throat and say, how much did you save? Was it 12 cents per car or was it a dollar per car? Because this is an annoyance that I will have to live with for the next 72 months or however long I finance this car.
inexpensive to do? My question also perhaps is, is it more expensive to make two different versions of the window switch when they could just do one version and use it on all four windows? This is the opposite of the Mercedes way where the windows, have you noticed the old Mercedes window switches where the left and the right ones are different because the windows are pointed different ways and they want it to be symmetrical? Have you ever noticed this? No, I never noticed that.
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