Love the two driver presets for the seat, mirrors, and steering wheel positions. Hate that there isn’t such option for pax seat in our car. I rarely drive that car but often ride in the pax seat. Husband would go to lunch with coworkers, and some tall dude would move the seat far, far back so my feet would not touch the footrest. Have to move it forward and bring the seat back upright.
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Then someone would complain that the trunk is too small! 
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My son has that heads up on his 2018 Mazda and I love his clean straight lines simplistic dashboard so much, I’m likely going for the CX70 or 90 when one of my other cars poops out. That heads up is awesome!!
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Me too! I’ve been driving for 52 years (everyday to/from school & work) and have only had 1 flat tire and that was not while driving but coming out from my apartment and finding it flat. I don’t want to jinx myself since I’ve been fortunate enough to fly under a lot of the bad luck radar, so I’ll stop here.
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Actually, the car has a well for a donut spare, currently filled by the styrofoam tray that would normally contain a jack and lug wrench–it currently contains the can of tire seal and pump mechanism.
This is something I’ve always wanted but I don’t hear a lot of people talking about it. Any glitches, or is it as perfect as it seems?
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Maybe the next gift when the current set wears out at 30,000 odo miles like they always do…
https://support.toyota.com/s/article/What-are-runflat-tire-7673
I have a hybrid, also without a spare tire. I replaced the tires with runflats which will go at least 50 miles after a flat. I suppose if the tire comes to pieces because you hit a deep pothole or something it won’t work, but for your ordinary flat they do fine. And for smaller cars such as a Corolla the tires are reasonably priced.
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Like:
- Big center screen and digital dash screen with dynamic info the user than customize.
- Wireless CarPlay with Waze and Spotify.
- Adaptive Cruise Control
- Well done versions of driver assistant (some are well done, many are not).
- Phone as key.
- Phone app to control features of the car remotely.
- Heated, cooled and massage-capable seats.
- Regenerative braking.
- The ability to have my car get its engery in my garage while I am asleep.
Dislike:
a. “Safety” features (alerts, etc.) that are forced on you by default every time you turn on the car that have to be actively turned off, or worse cannot be turned off at all.
b. Overly sensitive active impact features that suddenly brake the car even if you know you weren’t about to hit anything and can’t be turned off.
c. Screen features that are disabled by some brands (particularly the Japanese and American brands) while you are driving for your safety, even though the passenger could have been controlling them.
d. Cars that force you to pay for subscriptions to be connected or use apps rather than allowing you to use CarPlay or Android Auto with your phone free.
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It’s as perfect as it seems! In my old car, I could choose what showed on it, and the info was all available elsewhere, so if HUD were lost, I’d still have the info.
I am realizing that I don’t know if I can change the display I have now – It’s pretty much what I want so I have not searched for that feature!. It now shows my speed and next to it, the speed limit. (It “reads” speed limit signs as I pass them.) Of course, I could look down at the speedometer, as I do in rental cars, but it is really nice to have that right there in front of me as I look through the windshield - all through the distance part of my glasses 
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It really helps keep eyes on the road, especially if I can change the audio or temperature with a voice command.
Do not care for phone as key. Unlock the phone, open the app, unlock the car… so much more hassle compared to having the fob in the pocket and just walking to the car. But the app comes in handy occasionally. Like remotely honking the horn when some punks start milling around the car.
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Other features I like:
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When I turn my car off, it automatically goes into park.
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I always put my emergency brake on when the car is parked. With this car, when I start the car and put it into gear, the emergency brake automatically turns off.
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Heated side mirrors, and something on the windshield that prevents ice from forming on the wiper blades and near the wiper blades. Makes it a LOT easier in the winter.
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My windshield washer doesn’t spray from a little spot. The windshield washer fluid comes through the wiper blades somehow. I haven’t quite figured out how…but it does!
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None of that is remotely how a good phone as key implementation works. I would hate what you describe but that’s something else entirely.
My phone never leaves my pocket. I don’t need any particular app open – in fact I could have all apps closed. I just walk up and the car unlocks on apporoach. I get in the seat and go. That’s it. No holding the phone, opening it, opening an app, clicking anything, etc.
Even better, with wireless CarPlay, with my phone still having never left my pocket, I can use Waze, Spoitfy, etc. from the car’s main screen. I have had times where I never even turned Waze on and the phone never left my pocket and it still warned me when I was about to drive by police cars because it just automatically has Waze passively on in the background even if its not on screen, if it was the last app I used last time. It’s great. And intituative. And far more convenient than having to carry a keyfob around.
And if for some reason I’m not around and I need someone else to access or drive the car, I can literally just find my digital key in the Apple Wallet and “share” it remotely to another user, including setting privileges on what it can do (open, drive, etc.) and when it expires.
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Google maps? That’s what I would use it for.
I haven’t seen anyone mention self-parking. Yet another feature I’m too much of a control freak to consider.
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Or go to the salvage yard and find a wrecked Corolla with the same size tires and buy the spare tire and jack kit out of it.
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Pretty sure Google Maps stays on the screen. But if you use the car’s navigation system, it shows the turns on the HUD.
I’ve gone to a junkyard and bought a spare for one of my old cars.
I refuse to buy a car without space for a spare and hate those useless mini donut spares. I frequently drive too far for the undersized spare to last, at night when I can’t get a tire replaced.
My latest AWD car came with summer tires that are completely useless in winter. Why??? I lucked out and got a full set of snow tires on rims off craigslist for less than a rim would have cost from the dealer. In the winter one of the summer tires is the spare, in the summer it’s a winter tire. Not perfect, but way better than a donut.
As for headlights, I like the autodim but hate that it autodims when going less than 30mph. That’s the speed I’m driving on a side road when I want the bright headlights to see the deer.
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One thing about any spare tire is the necessity to check its air pressure. Often the spare is ignored when checking the pressure (which is needed more frequently in autumn), and is not included in many cars’ tire pressure monitoring systems.
A mini spare intended to be used at 60psi may be unsafe at 20psi that it may have after years of being out of sight and out of mind.
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I guess this was perfect timing since DH just told me he wants to go car shopping tomorrow. Only my husband doesn’t shop, he buys. Which makes me nervous as he has basically decided to get a Rav4 because he drove his friends and liked it. It’s a great car, but I am the kind that will test drive 42 cars before I pick one.
I think you have swayed me on virtual keys and HUD. Do virtual keys require a subscription? If so, what are you paying? And whatever it is, it is probably less than we have paid for lost key fobs the past 2 years with 2 teen drivers.
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