Heated seats - I suffer from a very bad back so they can go on even in the summer - an I live down south.

Heated steering wheel - yes please.

Self parking - never tried it - would love to - cant see in 3d properly - but can legally drive.

Rear view camera - much prefer parking sensors as I am looking around the car for obstacles- not the screen.

Decent control - never had the need to use it.

Automatic lights - yes

Automatic wipers - never seem to get the speed right.

Emergency collision detection / radar - yes - saved my life once.

Blind Spot Detection - yes - saved a bikers life once.

Lane keeping assist. Had it on my last car and liked it. It steers the car. Don't have it in the Mrs's Note and don't miss it.

Cruise control - yes. Every time I'm in roadworks on the motorway. Set at 50 and don't worry.

Stop / start works flawlessly and invisibly on the Note.

Edited by Zippy123 on 26/07/2020 at 22:38

Cruise control, comes in two flavours. Old fashioned dumb cruise control and I agree its not much use in the uk. And there is Adaptive Cruise Control. Massively useful use it all the time. It detects when the car in front slows down or another one drops in front. it maintains the selected distance and brakes for you as required . Its great.

I hate the idea that one might get accustomed to the car braking for you - until for some reason it fails to. What then ?

You do it yourself, its natural reaction to apply brakes when needed- so if the autobrake fails to work -you brake yourself, its not rocket science only an excuse not to have it.

and because it works faster than you can react, if it fails you brake as you would normally, its a natural reaction regardless of what people say.

I'd miss having a steering wheel, accelerator and brake pedals, gears selector too, not much else.

Basically, it's anything that will make a journey more relaxing and efficient.

Automatic gearbox does it for me.

For the drivers who want everything done for them so they have to do nothing, just get a bus or train instead. If not, the ultimate gizmo laden vehicle will be along soon, the self driving car.

I quite like most of the bells and whistles, but probably wouldn't bother to get them repaired if they stopped working. One of my favourites is the rear window blind. I'm surprised more cars don't have them to prevent dazzle which can overcome the dimming mirror when aggressively tailgated by large 4x4s with high set lights. The one I dislike most is the auto wiper function.

Lane Keep Assist is either off or on "Alert" rather than "Assist" so I don't have to fight it

Park Assist has been used a couple of times for the novelty factor, but the side sensing is useful when navigating narrow gaps

I thought the reverse camera with parking sensors was a pointless add on but is actually quite useful

Auto wipers are good - I need to adjust the sensitivity up or down depending on the conditions

I like the voice commands as most of the controls are via a touchscreen as is distracting when driving

Heated washer jets seem to be good but I have not had a particularly cold spell yet to be sure

The heated windscreen is a must for light frost

I miss the heated seats but the latest car heats up quickly

I am old school and miss the CD multi-changer :-)

With regards to the heated seats of the thread title, i've never owned a car with them, but driven plenty at various garages/dealers. One time when i worked at a Saab dealer, i borrowed a fancy demonstrater to take my folks to the airport when they were going on holiday, a 9000CD turbo auto. Let my Dad drive and Mum in the front passenger seat, but before i got out, i set the passenger heated seat to the highest level. On the way to the airport, Mum started to squirm (she'd never sat on a heated seat, never knew they existed), i started laughing and explained about the seat. She also started laughing, with relief though, as it turned out she thought she'd pee'd herself!.

What i do fancy is a heated steering wheel. I often find my hands getting very cold when driving in winter, possibly to do with the hands being higher than elbows, blood following the course of gravity or whatever. My MIL has a heated steering wheel (as well as seats) on her top of the range Hyundai i10 and i am a little jealous!.

Our Jazz, being a top of the range model, did have quite a lot of gizmo's. One that i couldn't really figure out the point of, was what it had instead of an adjustable intermittent setting for the wipers. This was an adjustment for the sensitivity of the windscreen sensor. The theory being that it should work the same as the aforementioned adjustable intermittent. But it didn't, it was either too sensitive or too insensitive, never just right. But it strikes me as an inferior solution to a problem which didn't exist, the adjustable intermittent control on my 2010 VW Caddy is, IMO, far superior!. The Jazz does have an auto-brake function whch works at lower speeds (can't remember the exact figures) and it also has a warning for higher speeds. Both functions are, IMO, over sensitive. The power fold mirrors are a welcome addition if, like me, you live on a narrow street. Not essential, as it is easy enough to just fold them in manually, but welcome all the same. It had keyless entry and start, something i'm not overly fussed about, but my wife found it an absolute boon!. She, like many women i guess, kept the keys in her handbag. Keyless entry meant no searching through the bag looking for them (and my wife tends to use big handbags!). There was a blip with the system, only happened once though. She was down in the Solihull area visiting her sister and at the time there was very wet spell. The keyless entry stopped working for a day which involved her having to take the actual key out of the fob to get into the car, but also i seem to remeber her having to remove the battery from the fob to open the car, then put them back in before she could start it (or vice versa). Not sure if the weather had anything to do with it, but as i said, it only happened the once and seemed to sort itself out after a day.

Cruise control is something i really like and use a lot. This started when i was still driving buses after my depot got a fleet of new coaches with cruise fitted. I found myself using it pretty much all the time, including in situations you may not expect. Doing runs at quiet times it was all to easy to find myself getting ahead of schedule, so using cruise to keep my speed down a bit on the open road (when my natural instinct was to be doing at least 50mph) was helpful to avoid having to stop for ages at bus stops. Also, on these same quiet journeys (late at night for example), coming into Aberdeen from the North, you have 3 or 4 miles at 30mph speed limit. Very easy for the speed to creep up, so i'd set the cruise to just under 30mph coming out only for roundabouts (depending on layout!), junctions and red lights.

Heated windscreen - really miss it now we have cars without

Heated seats - good in winter, again miss them

Rear camera and sensors - increases safety when reversing; sensors have saved me one collision with a low bollard that was invisible from inside the car

Auto wipers - one excellent Peugeot system, others iffy

Speed limiter - use it a lot, especially where wide roads have 30 limits. Cruise good on empty motorways and in some other places.

Lane departure warning - switched off most of the time as it complains if driving on twisty A roads; good on motorway

Hill hold - agree that it can lead to less careful driving and to hanging on the footbrake

Stop/start - had three different versions now, all good at keeping noise and pollution down in traffic; unconvinced that they save much fuel (our Suzuki happily tells us we've saved 3ml of fuel on a shopping trip!)

Auto lights - I'd prefer control, so I keep them turned to manual.

Heated seats - meh!

Cruise control - a definite must.

Doing Somerset to Edinburgh 6 times a year now (Covid allowing!). Mile after mile of roadworks with average-speed cameras, so cruise control is invaluable