Don't buy from companies that do this, should be obvious?
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They would put airbags behind a subscription if we let them.
For anyone actually wondering, no BMW never made it so you had to pay a subscription for heated seats. The backlash was enough to end that before it happened.
True for the US
According to a BMW spokesperson, seat heaters were offered in subscription form in the UK, Germany, New Zealand, South Korea, South Africa, etc.
They stopped with the seats but are still trying
https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20230908-bmw-drops-plan-heated-seats/
Wasnt Mercedes paywalling full throttle use if you wanted to go fast(er)?
There's added warranty exposure there at least for extra power. That's assuming it's actually extra and not artificially deflated. Factory sanctioned tunes are common.
What about the adaptive shockabsorbers? IIRC they were on a monthly subscription.
And to be honest it’s really nice for the second hand market. Every car gets heated seats installed, and the next owner can “activate” them.
Plus bmw always provided the option to pay in full for them, or BNPL model it.
Some BMWs in Europe are apparently prone to spontaneous combustion lmfao, it's a shit company with shit cars
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