1. Air conditioning. VITAL
For about 1 week every third summer.
2. Sun roof. RUINS YOUR HAIR
And makes a horrible noise
3. Leather seats. HOT BUM WHEN SUNNY
Slightly more detail than I needed, but I know what you mean.
4. Electric windows. I HAVE STRONG WRISTS
So have I, but I can't reach three of the windows. And for the most of the year it negates the need for aircon. Although I have to admit I have aircon and use it all the time.
5. Satellite navigation. I CAN READ A MAP
There speaks a man who does not have Sat Nav. Love it, love it, love it. Not essential, I agree, but love it. Really love it. A lot.
6. In-car DVD player. I CAN SING PRETTY WELL
I truly, truly, cannot. Even I can't stand my singing. And anyway its boring.
7. Alloy wheels. PRETTY BUT BY NO MEANS VITAL
Not even particularly pretty.
So it's the windows for me.
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My logic is the same as Mark's. It's actually quite tough to find a car without electric windows... let alone one with air con but no electric windows. I think Vauxhall did an Astra like that once. Nobody bought it, so I think secretly everyone agrees - electric windows are more essential than air con, but almost invisible now that every car has them, at least in front.
(And yes, I do have satnav, though it's on my phone and not plumbed into the car I'd miss it in a big way if it were gone). Of the others, I only have the windows and the sunroof - though I'd swap the sunroof for aircon, given the chance. My wheel trims look enough like alloys for me not to be bothered, an in car DVD player is for the benefit of my passengers who can bring their own if they're that bothered :-) and the only thing leather might do for me is make my car easier to sell if it were a Jag, which it isn't.
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>> 5. Satellite navigation. I CAN READ A MAP There speaks a man who does not have Sat Nav. Love it, love it, love it. Not essential, I agree, but love it. Really love it. A lot.
So much so that when he's in a car without it he parks up, rings me and tells me where he is and gets me to find him!
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Sunroof it is for me, please - although on resale, guess everyone would want air con!!
VB
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Sunroof for me please.
I've loved them since I was a kid!
I never forget getting our first car with a sunroof, a P reg Renault 5 TL with one of those fold back canvasse things. Oh joy of joys! Reg no was MGO 184 P
Then there was my dad's station runner - a Morris Minor Convertable Reg 175 EAA.
Yes, I can remember the regstration number of 98% of the cars that anyone remotrely associated with me has ever owned. My wife thinks I'm sad. I just think I'm amaizing and I want to stay that way.....
Mark, I see there's no mention of an electric aerial, you're not pining for those unforgettable memories of a car wash in Loughborough are you?? :)
Hugo
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1. Air conditioning.
If you live on the continent, or the south of England - in fact, anywhere south of Hadrian's Wall, a great idea. As I live in the Scottish Highlands, not very helpful.
2. Sun roof.
Oddly enough, when I had a car with a sunroof, I didn't open it that often - but I liked having the glass up there. I guess it made the car less claustrophobic.
3. Leather seats.
Can't see the point.
4. Electric windows.
Certainly can't see the point - one more thing to go wrong, and when they do ...
5. Satellite navigation.
Maps are fine for me
6. In-car DVD player.
Well, the passenger might like it, but I've never heard anything so daft in my life, except for
7. Alloy wheels.
Could someone tell me what the point of these things is?
so - toss up between aircon (great boon once in a blue moon) and sunroof (quite pleasant really, but not that exciting).
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I had one car with air-con and I hated it, only turned it on once a week to maintain the system. Air con and me don't get on, seems to give me cold-like symthoms.
Most of my last umpteen cars have had a sun roof and the only time I ever opened any of them was when I first got the car and was fiddling round.
Sat Nav I would love. I often have to visit people in remote areas with unpronouncable names. You try asking for directions to Cnwc-Y-Dinter or Bwlchgroes.
Alloys, magnet for thieves and easy to damage.
Electric windows, yes to the nearside front but I don't mind winding my own up.
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