What's your minimum car spec?

Skillmister said:
It's ok you somehow manage to post in every single thread how **** you think your car is so no one got confused :o
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ACME is like a vegan but instead reminds you constantly how crap his car is. :p:D

As for me
AC
Central Locking
Cruise Control and Aux/or Bluetooth. (Car currrently doesn't have either and I really want them on my next one)
Wheels
Engine

I'm not fussy
 
p1RATE said:
I'm suprised how many people see AC as essential. It's a nice luxury but it doesn't really get that hot in the UK so it wouldn't have me walking away from a car. I'd much rather have a heated seat.
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For me I'd say it is the #1 item on the list. It might be a 'luxury' but then so is pretty much every item of spec including heated seats. There are many benefits:

-Can keep windows closed to reduce road noise / buffeting at high speed
-It can still get unpleasantly warm even if not 'that hot', especially if a car has been parked in the sun
-Helps a lot to reduce condensation, so is of use in cold weather as well as hot
 
Climate
Xenons
Cruise
Electric windows/mirrors

That's about what I'd want as a minimum in whatever I get next. Everything else would be dependent on what the car is. Current car doesn't have cruise and is annoying on longer journeys.
 
Bare minimum

AC
Electric mirrors
Central locking
CD/Aux

What I like to have

Heated heats
Turbo
Reverse sensors

Features they can bugger off with

Auto wipers - why do top trims need this?! Give me back my intermittent setting!
Leather seats - again, cloth please.
Auto headlights
Digital fuel display - dividing a whole tank into 6 bars... Yeah thats accurate!
Engine temperature with only "hot" or "cold" displays



I love power but down here in the busy south east, the roads just seem to be getting so congested you don't often get a chance to unlease it. :(
 
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A sunroof, basic electrics (mirrors, windows, central locking), alloys, and fun to drive.

That's about it really, I'm oddly not that fussed about what I drive :confused:
 
I'm not too bothered, but I was driving about in a Merc Sprinter for a week. It lacked both Air Con & a CD Player, both features I missed.

EDIT: And yes I know it's a van, but my 51' plate Octavia has air con!! Indeed even my Dad's Transit Connect van which has wind up windows and no radio at all has air con. The [expletive denoting intercourse (verb)] thing doesn't even have carpets.
 
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wingman said:
No **** Sherlock, hence why I bought it, it was to my minimum requirements!

I'd find it hard to go back to less now, hence it is a minimum requirement.
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You wouldn't reject a car if it was ideal in every way but took 4.9 seconds to hit 60 instead of 4.8 so ergo it isn't really a minimum spec it's a 'look at my cars 0-60'.
 
MikeTheNative said:
ACME is like a vegan but instead reminds you constantly how crap his car is. :p:D

As for me
AC
Central Locking
Cruise Control and Aux/or Bluetooth. (Car currrently doesn't have either and I really want them on my next one)
Wheels
Engine

I'm not fussy
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I too would be miffed if my car didn't have wheels!
 
For me:
- Adaptive LED lights
- 360 camera
- Keyless entry/go
- responsive and comprehensive nav/infortainment

Lights are important to me; my previous car (XF) had woeful headlights and current CLS has truly amazing LED set, adjusting to other road users and so on - fantastic vision at night, with notably adapted pattern to block out light to oncoming/in front traffic. Maybe because I am getting older.......
360 camera is a boon, especially as spaces seem to be smaller (maybe just big car :p)
Keys are so yesteryear.....truth be told, an expensive convenience only, but....
Decent nav, live traffic, phone integration and so on all truly useful when schlepping up the miles

/end
 
[TW]Fox;30031911 said:
You wouldn't reject a car if it was ideal in every way but took 4.9 seconds to hit 60 instead of 4.8 so ergo it isn't really a minimum spec it's a 'look at my cars 0-60'.
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My M135i also has Pro Nav and an automatic gearbox, you'll note I didn't mention those on my minimum requirements as, if my next car had no Pro Nav or an auto box, it wouldn't be a problem... Because, and here's the kicker, it's not to my minimum requirements. So no, it's not simply me listing off my cars spec.

I said it needed to be quicker than 5s to 62mph, so you're right, I wouldn't reject it if it did the sprint in 4.9 or 4.8...

I don't quite know what you're on about tbf. To stress, I wanted, and still maintain the desire to have a car that hits 62 quicker than 5s, it's a personal benchmark for me and let us be frank, in 2016 it doesn't take much to achieve that. It's not 1998 anymore, and it's not like I'm asking to the car to hit it in 2.5s. It's a very realistic, achievable minimum requirement.
 
Any future car I buy (assuming it would be a car id have to drive every day, commute in etc) would need to have, as a minimum, Bluetooth hands free, climate control (not manual A/C), rear parking sensors, heated seats and cruise control. This is also assuming the basics are covered (remote central locking, electric windows and the like I consider the basics you'd struggle to find a car without now).
 
Since my current car is a mid-spec 10yo Audi A4, I've not experienced many of the fancy fripperies you lot are used to, so my requirements may seem somewhat retro:

At least 140BHP
Air Con
Decent Hi-Fi
Auto Lights
Manual Wipers with intermittent wipe option. (auto wipers drive me crazy)
Reversing sensors
Central Locking
Folding rear seats (current car has fixed bulkhead seating which again drives me crazy)
 
wingman said:
My M135i also has Pro Nav and an automatic gearbox, you'll note I didn't mention those on my minimum requirements as, if my next car had no Pro Nav or an auto box, it wouldn't be a problem... Because, and here's the kicker, it's not to my minimum requirements. So no, it's not simply me listing off my cars spec.

I said it needed to be quicker than 5s to 62mph, so you're right, I wouldn't reject it if it did the sprint in 4.9 or 4.8...

I don't quite know what you're on about tbf. To stress, I wanted, and still maintain the desire to have a car that hits 62 quicker than 5s, it's a personal benchmark for me and let us be frank, in 2016 it doesn't take much to achieve that. It's not 1998 anymore, and it's not like I'm asking to the car to hit it in 2.5s. It's a very realistic, achievable minimum requirement.
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So you'd immediately dismiss a car that does 0-60 in 5.1s as not fitting your requirements?

How bizarre. It's a bit of a daft performance metric to base your purchasing decisions solely on. For example, a Civic Type R does the 0-60 sprint in, what, low-mid 6s? This doesn't mean it wouldn't get mullered once rolling by a car more powerful that perhaps can't get to 60 as fast due to gearing, maximum RPM, aerodynamics, drivetrain, weight, whatever...
 
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