What Is An Optional Car Feature You Can't Live Without?

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The average price of a new car is damn near 50,000 dollars, or a little more than eighty percent of the annual salary of an average American. That is a lot of money to spend on an automobile, so you’d better be damn sure it has all of the stuff in it that you want. If there’s anything worth doing, it’s equally worth overdoing, right? Tack on the options you can’t live without, whatever they are. Do you need to have adaptive cruise control, premium audio, heated and cooled seats, or Apple CarPlay?

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If you had to pick just one option in your car that was make or break, which would it be?

For a long time I thought I it would be impossible to go back to owning a car without radar cruise, but now that I’ve gone and done just that, I seem to be surviving just fine. But weirdly I’ve found myself hopping mad about the fact that I currently have to live without Apple CarPlay until I get around to replacing the head unit in our Porsche Cayenne. Which, as it turns out, isn’t exactly easy to do.

So let’s hear your automotive necessities. Are you an audiophile who bought a Lexus specifically for the Mark Levinson system? Did you get the optional 24-inch wheels on your Chevrolet Silverado EV because you can’t bear the thought of being seen with a pedestrian 22-incher? Was your GT3’s $33,520 Weissach Package worth every penny because you need your car to be 33 pounds lighter to win your next Porsche Club track day?

Let us know which options are absolutely impossible to live without so we can all be more informed consumers. We definitely won’t spend the rest of the day playing with car configurators building cars we can’t afford. Sound off in the comments!