And I am one that does not want nor need power seats. I am the only person that drives my truck, so I nver adjust the drivers seat, and those who get in the passenger seat can manually adjust it if needed.
I've wanted power memory for so long now. I had it in a 2022 Dodge I owned and missed it ever since. Going to clean out the truck and vacuuming or even folding the seat up at all for any reason and trying to find that right spot it was in before only to notice 3 days later it was different lol. One of my main reasons for going with these was the creature features like that. If I can set a drive mode and another mode I'll be so happy. Like, press 2 for the seat all the way up so I can vacuum out the Tootsie rolls I dropped, and 1 to return it to exactly where it was before. It's so nice.
There are a few omissions on the 23s that are inexcusable at the price point. No homelink garage door opener and no rain-sensing wipers sucks. Much cheaper cars have had those options for years.
I've personally always hated the rain sensing wipers. That is something I enjoy full control over. Auto has never been fast enough or it's too slow, especially on two lane highways with oncoming traffic where I live. That is one thing I've always disabled. My hands are always at the right position to adjust both headlights and wipers with the flick of a finger. So as long as it's simple, as usual, I'll be happy.
Never used homelink either, but I can't see a good reason to leave it out if it was something previously included.
But the overall headlight control being in the dash... Bleh. Huge downside. And hopefully they took into account that LEDs don't radiate the same heat so the DRLs might not be enough sometimes to keep that slush from accumulating. Heated elements in the housings should be standard for a lot of LED housings now days. My Tacoma has been so bad I've had to pull over and wipe the snow from it. They just don't get hot enough. But mainly I want the ability to quickly turn on/off fog lights and switch between drl/headlights manually.
I turn off the fogs for oncoming traffic most times unless it's super foggy. And hope they don't disable the fogs with high beams.
Another nice feature I recently saw that BMW offers is a rear camera washer. How cool is that? Rear cameras do great things to increase visibility along with blind spot mirrors and of course, looking lol. But they don't help much if you can't see out of them. This has been the normal for every rear camera I've ever had. It's time to consider something simple to keep them clean as a standard. It's an extra safety feature rendered useless too often.
