Thank you for your inputs, everyone. I've been intently reading through every little point you have mentioned, and will choose to individually discuss each. My intention to start the discussion seems justified.
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Originally Posted by MileCruncher As already stated by Lamborghini, the eccentric rail feature is there in Uno and not in Palio. |
I'm quite certain that the eccentric rail was present in the first batch of Palios. Can any Bhpian (who has owned one such car) clarify?
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Originally Posted by MileCruncher One feature I was impressed by in my Jaguar was the seat belt sign. If no one is seating in the passenger seat , that sign will not glow but only when some one sits but does n't belt themselves, will the sign glow. |
While it is an intelligent feature, are you sure that the technology which went into it is simple/inexpensive? The only way this could get done is to install sensors that detect pressure on the seats.
On second thoughts, you own a Jaguar? Wow
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Originally Posted by Sawyer My Pajero has a sliding pull out section in the flipdown/out sunshades fixed inside the car so when you pull them out and swivel them sideways to keep the sun out from the side windows, you can slide them out so that the shades then cover the entire length of the side window, to keep the sun out. Simple, cheap, and very doable.
But I haven't seen that in any car till now, and the Pajero is a 15 year old design! Ergonomics is an aggregation of many little things like this, that do not all have to cost the moon. |
Very intelligent feature, other manufacturers should take a cue from this. And the last sentence is very well said.
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Originally Posted by amitk26 (1) One good feature on early TCIC Safari was the the middle row 40% seat of 60 / 40 split could be completely fattened to come in line with jump seat in last row giving a flat bad for an adult but in Safari Dicor and 2.2 Dicor this is removed don't know why |
This feature is present in the Xylo too, isnt it?
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Originally Posted by amitk26 (2) Open Corsa had 3 settings for AC air-circulation ( closed , open and 50%) giving a certain amount of flexibilty.This is again a very simple solution and does not involve a grea deal of technology. |
Sounds interesting. Definitely useful for those rainy evenings when you cant roll down the windows, yet dont want the full blast of air on your face!
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Originally Posted by amitk26 (3) Tata Vehicles ( Safari, grande and vista) have a wiper speed adjustment on the wiper stalk giving a lot of flexibility and it is quite useful. Do not know why this simple setting can not be provided by others. |
This is not such a novel feature. Been present in Mercs since 1980s, also present in the Verna and some other Indian cars.
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Originally Posted by amitk26 (4)Toyota corrola Altis has an Array of LEDs as break light which looks good and saves power. when LEDs are cheap as dirt this is definately doable in all cars. |
Err..this no doubt adds to the novelty value, but does it add to utility value for the driver?
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Originally Posted by amitk26 (5) Airlines style tray table in Xylo. This is a very useful feature and all MUV manufacturers see them in Aircarfts so why could not they install one for passanges in MUV they are manufacturing. Very thoughtful on part of M&M. |
Hehe, sounds useful. Of course, I'm yet to come across people who've had whole meals in their Xylo
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Originally Posted by ACM 1) The earlier, Fiat 1100, Amby, etc had column mounted gear shifters. The I10 gear shift though not column mounted by being dash mounted ensurs that like the coumn shifters the space between the two front seats if free for other stuff.
The three seater front sofa style seats had to make way for 2 bucket seats, due to the floor mounted gear stick that came in the way. This takes care of that problem.
2) The Laura has memory seats that remember your seat and side view mirror settings (upto 2 different drivers.) this is a great boon where the dirvers rearrange the setting while parking the cars in the office lounge or at home.
3) The stearing mounted controls possibly fall into this same range of easy to do stuff that is only today seen.
4) The reverse mirrors on the laura tilt downward when reverse gear is engaged as also the music system shows the parktronics system as also the music system drops volume to let you listen to the reverse parking blips.
5) The Safari has a reverse camera that is viewed on the rearview mirror skin by default in the Vx version that that is a great boon while reversing a giant truck.
6) The cielo had an 18 position (read sec) option in the GLX version for the wiper which allowed one to postion the intermittent wipe at our convenient setting via a roller rather than the 3-4 setting available on the cars today.
7) Laura has auto headlights (Light sensor), that auto level, that is usefull with shifting loads in the car and on entering a tunnel which is much darker. It also has auto wiping wipers (rain sensors) but they still need to program them better.
8) Passat / Superb have round the bend headlights that bend along turns giving added light visibility on turns. |
While you've given some very interesting inputs, lemme clarify one small point. The column mounted gearshift isnt a simple feature per se. It was the way these cars were engineered, and manufacturers chose to offer them simply because re-engineering a floor shift would have been an expensive proposition. Not to offer convenience to the customer.
The other points are novel no doubt, but they cannot be classified as "simple/inexpensive" features, as they involved costly re-engineering.
Open to discussion.