The Douchiest Car Features Available From The Factory

Over the last few years manufacturers have come up with all sorts of ridiculous features, hoping to make their cars stand out from the crowd. Here's a selection of the douchiest, as picked by you

Neil Winn

26 Feb 2016

The Douchiest Car Features Available From The Factory

Drift Mode: Ford Focus RS

Porsche Panamera: £249 rear windscreen wiper option

Almost every manfuacturer: Start buttons

Rolls Royce Phantom: Gold plated Spirit of Ecstasy

Bentley Bentayga: £150,000 Breitling Tourbillon clock

Ford Mustang: Puddle lights

Mercedes-Benz S-Class Coupe: Swarovski crystal lights

Ford Mustang: Burnout mode

Bugatti Veyron: $300,000 for exposed carbonfibre

Suggested by: Edwin Klinkenberg (Photo credit - Dubaicars.com)

Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe: Teak-decking

Comments

The only thing i found douchey is the golden spirit of ecstasy and mercedes swarovski crystal lights. The puddle lights is not douchey but useless option, the drift and burnout mode is not douchey to me if you do it on closed road or track or dragstrip(burnout mode). The exposed carbon fibre and teak decking is not douchey at all, they sure are cost ridiculously expensive but hey you’re buying a bugatti and a rolls royce you’d expect things to be expensive

What’s wrong with drift mode?!

Any fool can push a button and drift…

Because any idiot will be able to get in the car and let the computer do all the work. Every show-off D-Bag will use it and proclaim to the world how much skill they have.

First says car throttle the drift mode in the focus rs is awesome then it’s a douchebag Feature?!

You forgot about the indicator for BMW

Love how when CTzens were asked to say which they thought were the douchiest options people argued that the clock in the Bentley was a beautiful timepiece and wasn’t at all douchey but now there has yet to be anyone to defend it…..

The crystals and golden spirit of ecstasy are the douche ones here, IMO. I’m sure they’ll have plenty of customers in Dubai, however.

Though, to me, the absolute pinnacle of “douchebag” is the Focus RS’ drift mode. People complain that the Nissan GT-R drives itself because its a computer on wheels (which is untrue), but the Drift mode on the RS takes the absolute p**s because it literally does everything for you - you just have to initiate the drift.

Every idiot (who drives about as well as a liquored up white girl from Santa Monica) will hit the drift button and proceed to use it as an excuse to show off how “good” a driver they are and use it to constantly showboat and rain on everyone’s parade. I vote we rename the drift mode the “that guy” button. At least the line-lock on the Mustang actually has a specific use (drag racing) so I can forgive that.

Not a fan of drift mode at all - good tech I’m sure but not a fan.

Word.

Thank you. I thought I was the only one who realized what the word douch implies. Also.. isn’t drift mode standard on the RS? if it’s not an option why the hell is it on the list.

If this is true then how come half of the reviewers couldn’t do a drift or even a proper donut with the car in drift mode? All drift mode does is tell the car to send most of the power to the outside, rear tire to initiate over steer.

Whats wrong with exposed Carbon Fibre? Exposed Carbon Fibre is way more difficult to do than painted Carbon Fibre as it requires A LOT of precision and accuracy to align all the weaves of Carbon threads on every single panel. To do that with a car that has curvaceous body makes it even more difficult. Even Pagani and Koenigsegg charge $150,000 for exposed Carbon Fibre. So it’s not douchy but it’s engineer’s pride.

People must think that carbon fiber is perfect always and made with a magic machine or something…

I find it funny that everyone loves drifting but hates a specific “drift mode”

We hate it in a fwd car….

Does it have enough power ? I dunno.

There’s nothing wrong with drift mode and all cars should have a burnout mode

But whatever happened to driver skill? Now, the world is going to be filled with Ken Block-wantabes (geddit? There’s a pun in there) drifting all over the place, and not improving their skill level because they’ve got a big ‘ol computer helping them.

What’s wrong with start button again?

I’m trying to figure it out too. I think it is one of the coolest things a car can have.

not probably thief proof

Cranking your arm to start the car yourself is more satisfying than pushing a button and getting a computer to do it. (Analogue and mechanical > Electric and futuristic.) Each to their own though.