Yes, something that is not the size of a building. something between a transit connect/promaster city and a full size van that pops up for standing room that is not a fortune and not taking your new van to an aftermarket place where they cut the roof off, would sell very well.

Will they have enough chips and components for the 2023, or will there be a Sportage Shortage?

That’s because auto start/stop is not designed with the consumer in mind. It’s a tool purely used to lower automakers’ fleet mpg avearages, even by that tiny bit.

I have an irrational hatred of sunroofs. The take up headroom, make the top of your head hot, noisy when open, are expensive to fix, and in their older years rattle and leak water. Worse car feature ever.

For me its most of the “automatic” features that never work quite as well as you want them to.

I think they include it, and don’t allow you to permanently turn it off, because it makes a difference for the automaker meeting emission requirements across their entire lineup. It might save the consumer only a quarter gallon of gas a year, but across a million or two vehicles, it adds up.

The sound quality and the constant adds for other channels, I was happy to get rid of it. my phone has 1400 songs on it that i can bluetooth and they sound better. 

Satellite radio.

Auto stop/start. From what I can tell it really doesn’t impact overall fuel economy that much and just makes for jerky starts at stoplights and stop and go traffic. It’s an automatic motion for me now to turn it off when I start the car. 

Some driving nannys are good, but some are stupid. Lane keep assist, especially when deployed on roads with curves, sucks balls. Yes car, I know I’m touching the right solid white line. Yes, I know what I’m doing on this tight curve. No, I do not need you beeping at me.

Infotainment Centers.

Active driving assists.

I could take or leave heated seats. But cooled seats, those I want in every car I own going forward. 

Reversing cameras and parking sensors, are they overrated?

In my ‘15 Durango, I’d say the least used function are the paddle shifters.  I’ve used them in the mountains to better maintain cruising speeds, but for the majority of my driving in the Midwest they’re pointless.

Umm.. that’s a good thing, right?

Good luck coming in at half of $42k for a built out Transit, prices have exploded for anything that isn't a 200k miles trashed workvan

I love to shit on GM almost as much as Jalopnik, but everything about the C8 seems like they hit it outta the park. And now this level of performance for that price is insane.

I’d feel bad for him if he wasn’t a shit human being.

I’d feel bad for him if he wasn’t making the rest of the grids life a misery every time they encounter him on track.