I have a 2014 Volkswagen Touran. The Touran isn’t even a particularly big vehicle - it’s built on the same chassis as a Golf. On a long solo drive today, it occurred to me that the car has a ludicrous amount of cup holders.
I have the 7 seat variant, with two fold-down seats in the boot. There are 15 cup holders in total:
2 in the glovebox lid.
1 in the driver’s door.
1 in the passenger door.
3 in the centre console at the front.
2 flip-out ones in the centre console at the rear.
1 in the rear passenger side door.
1 in the rear driver’s side door.
1 in the rear passenger side tray table.
1 in the rear driver’s side tray table.
2 above the rear wheels for the boot passengers.
Bearing in mind the only cup holders accessible to the two rear-most passengers are the ones above the rear wheels, there are 13 cup holders for the 5 other passengers. I’m not sure what to think about this .
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I still remember when all you got was two shallow depressions on the inside of the glovebox lid and those plastic gimmicky cup holders that hung on the window trim…
They never failed to fail at the most inopportune time.
14 cupholders seems like halcyon days, my friend.
I’ve got a '95 Mazda 323 and as much as I love that car, mine is an absolute bastard for not having any cupholders whatsoever.
It has this little cubby under the radio and its supposed to actually have a tray that slides out but the previous owner installed a kill switch there which I guess interfered with the tray, so she decided the only cupholders in the vehicle was a worthy sacrifice rather than having her auto elec move the switch down 2cm or anywhere else in the vehicle.
Many drinks have been served to the carpet.
Anyway those plastic door trim cupholder things were a godsend when I found them at an Aldi.
They still make them? I haven’t seen one in decades. That’s like sighting something scientists thought were extinct!
It was one of Aldi’s limited run items and I bought them like 5 years ago. I haven’t seen them back at Aldi since but that’s pretty usual for those limited items
I think, it’s because Germans never really understood the need for cupholders, not somehow US customers kept complaining and at some point a product manager said “THEY STILL WANT MORE CUPHOLDERS? WE’LL GIVE THEM GODDAMN CUPHOLDERS”.
I remember joking about Chrysler commercials fir their minivans in the 80’s touting how many cup holders they had.
Seemed silly at the time… Still does today!
That’s kind of good that they could blend all of those into the design.
I suppose I’m thinking of it not in terms of “look at how many cup holders” but instead “if someone needs a cup holder they always have one available.”
I had a 2004 Passat where the cup holders flipped out of the dash by pressing a button. While deployed and with cups installed, the entire dashboard control panel was basically inaccessible. It was ludicrous.
Automotive trends. In the 80’s it was ash trays. We put them EVERYWHERE. The child seats came with ash trays.
