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LOL: Dash Tells You Which Way the Wheels Are Turning on a SsangYong

Their music and phones are great, but not all Korean cars are as impressive. Take SsangYong, a company many people don't even know about. The ones who do will never buy one because of Rodius or other horrible looking models they used to make.
LOL: Dash Tells You Which Way the Wheels Are Turning on a SsangYong 1 photo
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But we're not here to bash SsangYong even further into the ground. That would just be cruel. No, we want to show you something cool that few other vehicles have, if any. It's a display that shows you which way the wheels are turning. The idea is so stupid that it may be pure genius.

Most cars offer a small display between the rev counter and speedometer. However, the one on the SsangYong Tivoli shows you in what direction the wheels are turning. We can almost imagine the company's CEO meeting up with his staff to discuss how to make the Tivoli the best crossover on the market.

One guy says "we need to make it self-parking." But the boss quickly dismisses the idea as being too expensive. Another guy says "we'll give it a monitor to show the car's position within a parking spot." But the boss says they can't afford that either. So they finally decide to install a helpful arrow that shows which way the wheels are pointing.

It might seem pointless, but so is non-alcoholic beer. We think there are plenty of situations where you might not know which way your wheels are turning. For example, as you return to your car after a hard day of shopping for curtain and matching pillows. You just want to rush home, forgetting how you got the car in the bay six hours earlier.

We've also seen some female drivers who don't know what their car will do once they release the clutch. The steering arrow will help them too. But that kind of makes the Tivoli a car for people who can't drive, and we're not sure that we like that. We could also argue that all cars with a reversing camera don't need this function because you get guidelines that show in which direction the vehicle will move.

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About the author: Mihnea Radu
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Mihnea's favorite cars have already been built, the so-called modern classics from the '80s and '90s. He also loves local car culture from all over the world, so don't be surprised to see him getting excited about weird Japanese imports, low-rider VWs out of Germany, replicas from Russia or LS swaps down in Florida.
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