The auto industry is awash with trends, from calling everything an ‘SUV’ to various design and technology features common across many brands and models.
We have also seen a number of trends occurring after the COVID-19 pandemic such as supply shortages, freight delays and rising costs of raw materials, and thus products.
Here, auto expert The group shares their top automotive trends that will be gone by 2023. Share your trends with us in the comments!
Alborz Fallah
“Limited Supply”. No, it’s not… or it won’t be soon
The semiconductor problem has largely been resolved, with interest rates above the ceiling and forward orders for new cars starting to see higher-than-normal cancellation rates, as judged by the average consumer. their immediate need for a new car due to the higher monthly payment.
Meanwhile, factories will need to produce cars because they have fixed costs, and producing more cars is the best way to stay profitable on a large scale.
Competing business priorities between factory-level producers that want to massively increase supply versus local companies that want to artificially restrict supply to maintain profit margins – sell fast 10x at a profit of $2500 per unit will be 20x more profitable at a profit of $1000 – which will be a major point of contention for most OEMs in 2023.
Paul Maris
Vegan furniture for the sake of vegan furniture
This year at pole star 3 revealed, I learned a lot about vegan interiors – a topic I never really cared about, especially given how much I love steak.
According to Polestar, most vegan furniture is made from highly toxic chemicals that are meant to mimic leather, but are actually significantly more harmful to the environment than fabric or fabric.
Polestar is currently charging a fair amount for an all-vegan interior alongside a leather interior, simply because they are ethically passing the cost of sourcing these materials onto consumers.
Their skins are traceable and use the biological products of the meat industry, while their vegan ingredients are sustainably produced to limit the use of harmful chemicals. So, before you start feeling warm and fuzzy about your vegan interior, remember that not all materials are created equal.
Anthony Crawford
Please press the button, we are still asking…
Maybe that’s my age, but I’m still a big fan of the few dials and buttons, at least for climate control and volume controls. There’s nothing more frustrating than having to dig into some menus to lower or increase the temperature of the car’s air conditioning.
It’s even worse when you’re on a call and it’s getting hotter by the minute and you’ve forgotten which sub-menu contains the air-conditioning – it’s more annoying than you can believe.
That’s a real problem when automakers choose to ditch the actual switches altogether in favor of multiple touchscreens, especially if the interface isn’t intuitive and you have multiple screen pages to work with. access.
Scott Collie
Overly intrusive safety systems need to be in the bin
We are in a semi-autonomous era. Even the base city hatchbacks come with lane-keeping assist, adaptive cruise control, and speed limit warnings, and luxury automakers have gone further with these cars. change lanes or even park yourself without anyone behind the wheel.
Just to be clear, I’m not against these features… as long as they’re well calibrated. Unfortunately, they usually don’t.
For example, the latest Hyundai and Kia cars will beep at you every time you breach the speed limit they deem the speed limit – even if they’re wrong, usually in school zones. study outside of school hours.
If you are running at 61 km/h in zone 60, they will beep. If you slow down from 61 to 59km/h, then back to 61km/h, they beep again. It’s absolutely infuriating and requires a minimum of three button/screen presses to turn it off.
Worse yet, you can’t turn these systems off if they get in the way, thanks in no small part to the helicopter parents of the automotive world at Euro NCAP.
Instead, you’re forced to look out of the way (safety first!) to find the sub/sub/sub/sub/sub/sub menu responsible for the systems and shut them off every time you boot up. car.
Mike Costello
There are many choices.
Brands obsessed with token NFTs and metaverse disclosure, continue to rely too heavily on user-unfriendly touchscreens over buttons, OTA software updates, and connected services that can overpriced, cheap cars dying, terribly complicated controls to turn off driver assistance functions… I could go on.
But one thing that annoys me is the tendency to categorize and market as if every car is an ‘SUV’ to exploit the rampant demand for these premium driving vehicles, which currently account for more than 50% of the market. section in Australia.
Maybe it’s time we stop calling Suzuki Ignis, Nissan Juke, Kia Niro, Mazda MX-30, Hyundai Kona, Ford Puma and Toyota C-HR SUVs? Let’s face it: they’re design-led hatchbacks, through and through. What is the purpose of capturing all with almost infinite parameters?
James Vuong
Australia glitches with old powertrain technology
I am well aware that lagging emissions standards and limited access to new powertrain technologies are indeed a problem of our own making, but I would like to see manufacturers come up with a plan. school in 2023.
I struggle to see how many OEMs can talk about emissions reductions and electrification, but are still importing old Euro 5 powertrains with almost no fuel-saving technology to use in the world. real.
Emission reduction and electrification need to be approached as a whole, with solutions gradually being rolled out across different budgets and segments. On the other hand, choice is reserved for a privileged few.
CO2 as well as gasoline and diesel that we will save together every year if your car turns off the lights, for example, or takes apart the transmission to go down a hill or shuts down the cylinders while on the road, all will be up to a significant impact – tons of CO2 that will never be released into the atmosphere and liters of fuel saved over time can essentially buy you a free barrel or two a year.
Nor is this a new idea. Idling stop/start, de-cylinder and slow-start functions have been around for years, but now these very basic technologies are being phased out of Australian models in favor of powertrains. cleaner for other markets with emissions regulations, and partly because of consumer complaints about it.
Hopefully with the new Federal Government’s plan to introduce emission targets, improved fuel quality and more incentives for plug-in vehicles, we could see some changes.
While I’m at it, I’m also sick of manufacturers ditching fun color palettes and trims and bringing every new model here in four shades of gray with the only black interior option. It’s boring, stop it.
William Stopford
The alarm does not turn off
I hate repetitive sounds. It’s human nature to hate them, or why do fire alarms repeat the same tone over and over?
So imagine my frustration behind the wheel of an updated version Hyundai Palisade — a really good SUV — and encountered the most annoying feature of any car I’ve driven all year: speed warnings.
It’s the most annoying ringing, and to turn it off you have to search through the menus on the touchscreen. But that doesn’t kill it permanently, as once you restart the car, the overspeed warning will come back on.
There is a chime when you exceed the posted speed limit which is annoying but I can grudgingly accept it. But there is a separate, higher-pitched chime when the car detects a new speed limit. God why? Doesn’t Hyundai realize I have eyes?
Hyundai says it’s due to a European market requirement, but it’s something that should be eliminated locally as far as I’m concerned. Even using a smaller chime or programming a more accessible push-button will alleviate some of the discomfort – I think of some more annoying stop/start systems in some vehicles and how there is a physical button to turn them off.
Every time I walk into that Palisade, I have to turn it off immediately, so I can’t imagine how the owners really feel. While I’m singing, if there’s a bell in the car and it’s not immediately clear what I’m really being alerted to, that’s bad design.
Quick Jack
NFT
When I heard ‘NFT’, my eyes started to blur at a dizzying rate.
I have yet to really see the link between auto companies and non-fungible tokens (NFTs), but it seems that every new car launch has a link attached.
At first, it was mainly luxury brands like Lamborghini and Rolls-Royce advertising their NFTs, but now consumer-level brands like Hyundai are also getting in.
I understand the word NFT has become a buzzword over the past two years and there is a great deal of hype over these unique types of digital artwork.
I also understand that under certain circumstances people can make a lot of money from these sought-after NFTSs, but I have also heard that a lot of people also lose money.
If you feel the opposite and think that NFT really makes sense in the automotive world, please let me know in the comments.
Derek Fung
Confusing alphanumeric naming scheme
When Volkswagen launched the 4.2m . long car ID.3, the name is quite meaningful. It is a Golf– electric hatch size, adjust future model name accordingly, right? Maybe add an X somewhere for the crossover. Finished!
Next is 4.6m ID.4 cross. Um, okay. Candlestick ID.5 must be a larger size? No, it’s a “coupe” version of ID.4.
No, that role is taken by the ID.6, a 4.9m-long three-row crossover. Upcoming PassatSmall size model can be ID.Aero or ID.7. What? And, if Volkswagen decides to make a sedan or hatch to fill the gap between these cars, what will it be named?
Meanwhile, Polestar’s chronological naming system might make sense if the brand is aiming to be a niche manufacturer with a limited number of models.
These brands aren’t the only offenders, but they come to my mind first because of their novelty.
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