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 .
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!