I love my Stinger, but these details would have made it more perfect:
Note, I've edited the original copy below (whatever that means) to suit my preferences.
• Optional hi-po brake pads for street/ track days. Include brake cooling ducting for brakes with the hi-po pad option.
• Remember the driving mode between restarts.
• Remember the setting for engine stop-start (ISG) between restarts. I HATE using my starter motor because I stopped for 1/2 second at the end of a parking lot lane!
• Remember setting for auto-hold between restarts. Maybe make it more clear what this function does, as well. Anybody?
• UVO features that aren’t lobotomized (why didn’t USA get useful features like remote start via UVO like other countries?)
• Wireless apple car play/ Android car, because my wife has
iPhone and iPad, but I prefer Android, but sometimes the phones are already charged.
• Wifi/cellular in the car so UVO doesn’t need my phone plugged in to function.
• A nav system that doesn’t block operation while driving so my passenger can make adjustments. I'd even be OK with this locking out if the passenger seat is empty (the car knows).
• $20 map updates, because $175 every couple years is ridiculous. I’ll probably never update my maps because of this and keep using Google maps on my phone.
• Keep following gap for adaptive cruise to prevent tailgating (I'm really drafting, but they don't know it). No gap will keep some jerks from cutting in front of you and 1.5 seconds seems fine while allowing us retain some situational awareness.
• Manually shifting gears would be far more useful if there was a mode where it completely turned off automatic shifting unless actually redlining or lugging. When I'm shifting manually I don't want any automatic shifting, but it's a good compromise to have the auto-shifting if the RPM's are unsuitable for the current gear. PS, when the car was brand new it still let me lug it because I forgot I had switched to manual shift.
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Paddle shifters are cool, keep them. Make them actually have control of the car's shifting.
• Display a "high mount" rear camera view onto the
rearview mirror. Can’t tell if a car is behind me until they are on my bumper, and can’t see the
light bar on police cars until they light it up and flood my car with the insanely bright lights.
• Would love to have access to video, lap timer, and g-meter display from all 5 built-in cameras to record my drives. Are there 5 cameras? I thought it was 4.
Someone said "USB and power in the center console". My GT2 has them, with a pretty sliding cover to boot. This must already be an option?
I think keeping the 4-cylinder option makes sense (even though I would never want it).
I don't see how they would put all the features this car has and make it weigh 500 lbs less at this price point, so I disagree with this suggestion as well. I'm part of the struggling middle class, don't have a second car (although I do ride a Ducati in the summer months) and pretty much broke the bank to get the KIA. So, most of all don't do anything that ups the price point unless it's optional equipment (like the hi-po brake pads I suggested).