The Douchiest Car Features Available From The Factory

Over the last few years manufacturers have come up with all sorts of ridiculous features, hoping to make their cars stand out from the crowd. Here's a selection of the douchiest, as picked by you

Neil Winn

26 Feb 2016

The Douchiest Car Features Available From The Factory

Drift Mode: Ford Focus RS

Porsche Panamera: £249 rear windscreen wiper option

Almost every manfuacturer: Start buttons

Rolls Royce Phantom: Gold plated Spirit of Ecstasy

Bentley Bentayga: £150,000 Breitling Tourbillon clock

Ford Mustang: Puddle lights

Mercedes-Benz S-Class Coupe: Swarovski crystal lights

Ford Mustang: Burnout mode

Bugatti Veyron: $300,000 for exposed carbonfibre

Suggested by: Edwin Klinkenberg (Photo credit - Dubaicars.com)

Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe: Teak-decking

Comments

My car (FR-S) has a drift mode. It’s called turn off the traction control and stability control. However it is all you after that. There is nothing to save you when you mess up. Getting better at it, but, not always perfect.

I don’t understand how start/stop buttons are terrible.

Because they are a function of marketing over design. In a car with keyless entry, they make sense. But if you have to put in a key and turn it, then a button makes no sense. It’s MORE effort.

I don’t understand this list.
I get drift mode.
I get burnout mode.

But start button? Rear windshield wiper? Puddle Lights (Though the mustang ones are pretty dumb, my M3s were pretty nice and useful).

Hm, my A3 also has “regular” puddle lights, but Audi offers exchange-modules that project the Audi logo on the ground XD

What’s wrong with line lock?

There is nothing douchey about “burn out mode”. It’s actually called Line Lock and it allows you to burn out without killing your brakes.

Drift mode is just cool. Rear windshield wipers are the cheapest and most useful option from Porsche in years. Start buttons are no more douchey than keyless entry. The nominations for the spirit statue, clock, and crystal lights have more to do with envy than douchiness. Burnout mode is no different than a brake stand. Exposed carbon fiber is a pain in the ass to get right. Teak decking is beautiful and a wood that is in style at the moment.

I can go either way on the puddle lights, but I’d lean more novelty than douchey for now.

Fake engine noises through the stereo, twin exhaust on a 100hp car, rear spoilers on FWD economy cars, and dumping fuel into the exhaust to fake engine burbling and popping are all far more douchey than anything on this list.