#CarTrends #NewCarTrends #HateCarTrends #StopCarTrends
Are you tired of seeing the same car trends over and over again? 😩 Do you wish some of these trends would just disappear already? You’re not alone. As a car enthusiast, it’s frustrating to see great cars ruined by certain trends. In this article, we’ll dive into some of the most annoying “new car” trends that need to go.
## The Rise of Oversized Grilles
Have you noticed that car grilles seem to be getting bigger and bigger? This trend is definitely one that needs to stop. While a bold grille can add character to a car, oversized grilles have become a bit of an eyesore. Not only do they look out of proportion, but they also can hinder a car’s aerodynamics and overall performance.
## Excessive Use of Touchscreens
In an effort to modernize car interiors, many manufacturers have gone overboard with touchscreens. While a sleek touchscreen can be useful for navigation and entertainment, having too many of them can be overwhelming and distracting for drivers. Some cars have such complex touchscreen systems that basic functions like adjusting the climate or changing the radio station become a hassle.
## Fake Exhaust Tips
It’s a no-brainer that car enthusiasts appreciate the look and sound of a nice exhaust system. However, many modern cars have been sporting fake exhaust tips. These fake exhaust tips not only deceive buyers into thinking a car has a sportier exhaust system, but they also cheapen the overall aesthetic of the vehicle.
## Overuse of LED Lights
LED lights can add a sleek and modern touch to a car’s exterior. However, some car manufacturers have been going overboard with LED lights, incorporating them into every inch of the car. Not only does this look tacky, but it can also be blinding to other drivers on the road.
## All-Black Interiors
While black interiors can look sleek and sophisticated, all-black interiors can make a car feel dreary and cramped. It’s time for manufacturers to step away from the all-black interior trend and start offering more variety in interior color options.
## Conclusion
It’s clear that there are several “new car” trends that need to be reevaluated. From oversized grilles to excessive touchscreen usage, there are plenty of trends that car enthusiasts are tired of seeing. By highlighting these trends, we hope to bring awareness to the fact that these trends can negatively impact the overall driving experience and aesthetics of a car. As consumers, it’s important to voice our opinions and demand better design choices from car manufacturers. Here’s to hoping that these annoying trends will soon become a thing of the past.
Those extremely bright headlights are sooooo annoying. The tailgaters sitting behind you in taller vehicles are the absolute worst.
Turning the reverse lights on when someone unlocks their doors or when they shut it off. GM has been doing this for years and I have found myself ignoring back up lights in parking lots.
Subscriptions.
Price.
Manual transmissions are going away.
Every part that can be made out of plastic is. Regardless of how long it will last. We’re probably not to far off from plastic cylinderheads.
All plastic interiors and exteriors with clips instead of fasteners.
Most people can’t even do small repairs on their vehicles anymore because of how complicated the designs have become.
To add to that, even basic maintenance procedures are becoming more complicated.
Cars are going away.
Trucks are becoming huge, with huge front ends that ubstruct driver visibility.
Maintainiance free transmissions.
Touchscreens.
Electronic controls replacing mechanical controls.
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Everything else is cool tho.
Touch screens everywhere, and trucks getting way too big.
The goddamn shift knob. Just stop with that.
And anything subscription based. For the love of all that is Holy, ITS ALREADY THERE!
No transmission dip sticks
Headlights that can shine through a brick wall.
Sirius XM radio. Get the fuck out of here. No I don’t even wanna use the free trial. And I definitely don’t want to subscribe after it’s over. Stop sending me mail and emails
We have decided we need buttons instead of a lever for the gearshift, I hate that but fine whatever. Can we please stop trying to be innovative about it though and just everybody put the buttons in the same place?
Those bright as hell LED headlights. If they are gonna be bright enough to take an X-Ray then they can at least angle them down a little so I dont get blinded.
I hate that the gear shifter in some trucks (like my dad’s) is a little circle knob. It should be the classic stick where your hand rests. Not a little dial
Everything being software- based is making way too many points of failure for some pretty necessary controls for your car. I also don’t like all the extra subscriptions and shit you have to buy to actually use the car you just spent a literal arm and leg on. I don’t like that you can’t just start it with a key now, more potential for failure. They’re basically making everything harder so you can’t repair your car and you have to take it to a dealer, like everything is these days.
Also many, many auto makers are cutting corners and using absolutely shitty material in the name of profits.
Ever-larger trucks and SUVs. They’re expensive, hideous, incredibly dangerous to pedestrians, cyclists, and other drivers, a nightmare to park, and only so prevalent because of loopholes in EPA regs that mean they don’t have to be as energy efficient as smaller cars (and are therefore cheaper for auto companies to make).
Everything touchscreen, if you want to change the heater you need to press the screen like 6 times rather than just twist a dial. You need to take your eyes off the road to do it, whereas you used to have three dials and could turn them to the correct setting from memory without looking
No more screens, and make bench seats in the front the norm again in trucks and suvs.
#THE MOTHERFUCKING HEADLIGHTS
You all know what I mean.
Also, touchscreens are a shit idea for cars.
I would be happy if trucks and SUVs could start placing their headlights lower in their frame rather than allowing them to be higher than the mirrors of a regular sedan vehicle
For me.
__Removing the “gauge cluster” and moving that information to the center infotainment screen__ , I hate that trend, I personally want my “gauge” in front of me and I hate that some manufacturers think it is acceptable to have it in the infotainment screen.
– Parking button instead of a traditional handbrake
– Knobs to select the appropriate gear instead of a a normal shifter
– Paying extra for features that should be included
– Making things increasingly more difficult to work on yourself
– Having to program a new car battery for it to work instead of just installing it (Audi, BMW)
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As a car guy there are many many more issues I have, but these stick in my mind.
How they falsely think im drifting out of my lane so the car thinks it can take over and steer me back. Almost killed me multiple times
Touch screens and no “analog” representation of speed. My wife has a 2024 Seltos where the speed is only a digital readout and I find it hard to maintain a speed. I have to look down and actually read to determine speed whereas on an analog speedometer once I know where the needle is supposed to be I can almost use my peripheral vision to see if the needle is where it’s supposed to be or if it is trending up or down. Same with touch screens. In a car with lots of buttons, once you know where they are you can adjust things without looking or taking your eyes off the road. I have to look at a touch screen to be able to make sure I am touching the right part of the screen
Price
Everything being shiny and glossy, like a display of fancy lipstick in the center of the 1st floor at a Nordstrom.
No regard for the fact that it all looks like trash after 2months, covered in finger prints and smudges and scratches and water spots.
It’s so… tacky. Superficial. Gaudy. Fake.
Modern automotive design trends remind me of reality TV show aesthetic.
Hatchback Mustangs
Electronic E-brake button. Why is my E-brake now a push button??
Loud Reverse or boot open alerts for the whole street to listen to, day in day out
Making things touch based that shouldn’t be touch based. Radio controls, HVAC controls, etc. The basics should always be knobs or tactile buttons. Volume knob, temperature selector, defrost button, and so on.
A) it takes more focus away from driving to adjust whatever you’re trying to adjust and B) they don’t work with many gloves, which is important to me as someone who lives somewhere that gets cold a significant portion of the year.
And that’s before we talk about companies putting regular, normal processes only in the screen. Heated seats, lighting, and so on should only be on buttons or stalks by the wheel. Know why? What happens when that screen stops working? Now you can’t turn your headlights on or warm your butt up because it’s in that screen.
As a fella who runs a shop, the heavy use of plastics in crucial engine components. Why on god’s green earth are oil pans being made out of plastic? It’s like they’re TRYING to make their cars get a poor reputation for reliability
Dangerously bright headlights.
Screens. Fuck screens.
Fuck the buttons that don’t have any physical texture, bump or anything. Fuck everything that requires you to look down and search for the audio settings while driving.
Basically – I want to do shit without looking, which is impossible with a screen. Especially if there’s a damned android tablet installed and it has a million of different views. No.
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Also: turning off my engine while I drive just because I took my foot off the gas. I want to cruise, yes, but there’s no need to turn off the AC in a 40C heat, you stupid car. (context – new Hyundai Tucson we rented for a few days).
The fact that they harvest all my data and sell it to whoever wants it. Won’t be buying a new vehicle until something is done about that.
Beyond using touchscreens for everything, not allowing certain settings changes while the car is in motion, because you don’t want the driver doing it…even though you know there is a passenger who is probably the one making the changes.
I’ll go low tech here, move the brights from the column to the floor again. I’d rather use my foot for that than have to move my hand to change the lights from dim to bright or vice versa.
Fucking BRIGHT ass headlights
#UNREASONABLY BRIGHT LED HEADLIGHTS!!!!
Nanny tech and screens, so most of the trends. FWIW I prefer manual transmissions.
As someone on the manufacturing side of this: we hate the fucking screens too. It’s an absolute pain because you have about a billion connections in a rats nest already you have to connect, and the designers keep adding more. You miss one, or soft set one (doesn’t go all the way in, very common issue) and its a priority defect. I mean, makes sense because no one wants to buy a car in any less than pristine condition, but all the new electronics are making perfection harder by the day.
Ditch the screen, give me a aux button and a bluetooth button, it doesnt need to show me my calander or make phone calls for me
Unnecesary tech at little to no benefit:
Electronic hand breaks. Huge touch screens. “Smart” functions that only take away from driver control.
Also, fake grills/vents.
Subscriptions to use certain features in the vehicle you paid/are paying for
Software locking features, I’m all for hardware luxuries like better sound systems, better seats and all that but If the car is able to do something, don’t make me pay extra.
I’d love the trend of them costing the price of a house to stop.
The systems that literally beep and tell you to keep your eyes on the road when you are looking around to spot traffic when closing in on a crossroad.
I’m also highly sceptical of lane departure systems. Road markings are not reliable where I live, partially because of snow a large part of the year.
Cruise control systems that read speed limit signs. Before the last election where I live, there was at least one case where the system picked the voting number for a candidate from a poster as the new speed to follow.
The examples of adaptive cruise control I’ve personally tested, have the car use about 1/3 of the safe distance I was told to use in driving school, in terms of distance to the car in front. Felt very disturbing despite all sorts of auto brake functions, have not used since.
Touchscreen AC/vent direction/defrost. Please stop. Physical buttons/dials are OK!!!
Automatic shut off at stop lights.
There is absolutely no reason why anything that is inside a car needs to be a subscription service.
Push button start
Removal of buttons and using touch
Digital dashes (nothing against it but it’s easier to read analog dash because I can visually see where the dial is and I immediately know if it’s good or bad, e.g temperature, fuel, speed…)
No more manual transmissions !!!
Touchscreen multimedia (I drive an Audi and you control it by a dial in the centre)
Cars being too heavy for their segment
GREY area, so not hate it but not like it either: Electric handbrake (as in button operated)
LED headlights – now hear me out on this, there seems no regulation (at least in the EU to my knowledge) about how powerful can LED headlights be. Now, the problem is that a lot of manufacturers think the brighter the better. Problem is on the receiving side. Even with your short beams on at night, I CAN’T SEE SHIT and it causes my pupils to dilate losing temporarily my night vision which were my eyes used to. Now of course, I like increased visibility but I want some regulation on it so it doesn’t blind me also.
Price – now I understand inflation but what happened to being able to buy a decent car without having to scrape money for years and having to eat bread and cheap paté afterwards?
Being able to fix your own car – I don’t need to rebuild the whole engine but it would be nice if I can change my brakes or oil etc without relying on a mechanic or a computer.
But the most important thing that is actually a bit ignored – ***VISIBILITY***
Cars back then were made to be easily seen out of. These days there’s less and less manufacturers that care about it, resulting in issues with enormous (and potentially dangerous) blind spots and generally endangering the car’s occupants and all around it. I know there’s cameras n stuff but camera is supposed *to assist you*, **not to be relied upon**.
Unwanted automation that I can’t turn off.
Cameras in the dash watching the driver.