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0 pointsjstarfish7y ago0 comments

Look for trims of vehicles designed for fleet use. Those remain pretty spartan.

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They look it, but they aren’t. The RAM truck that has manual windows and manual door locks - has the same ABS/ESP, Radio Hub, body controller, battery modules, 7 CAN buses (2018+), three or more LIN buses, etc etc as the full load models.

Same body controller guts in as an Alfa Romeo.

magduf7y ago

He wants heated and cooled seats. You're not going to find that in any fleet vehicle.

albeec137y ago

Those aren't necessarily mandatory, but it certainly seems a lot of the safety tech is not available unless you also get things like that.

For reference, my wife and I bought a 2014 Mazda 6 Touring, which seems to be one of the few cars with a well-balanced mid-tier that doesn't cost an arm and a leg and still has good safety features (and did not come with heated/cooled seats).

magduf7y ago

Yeah, I got a 2015 Mazda 3 Grand Touring so I could get the heated seats, among other things (like xenon headlights, which are an important safety feature; halogen headlights should be banned, and the IIHS agrees with me).

But of course it also comes with a clunky and nearly useless nav system that costs a fortune if you look at the line-item cost. They only recently, finally, started supporting Android Auto.

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SlowRobotAhead7y ago

Same body controller guts in as an Alfa Romeo.

magduf7y ago

He wants heated and cooled seats. You're not going to find that in any fleet vehicle.

albeec137y ago

Those aren't necessarily mandatory, but it certainly seems a lot of the safety tech is not available unless you also get things like that.

magduf7y ago

But of course it also comes with a clunky and nearly useless nav system that costs a fortune if you look at the line-item cost. They only recently, finally, started supporting Android Auto.

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