aznkorboi

I need that one funny meme of the dude saying this...


Man! That would have been way nicer than the elbow trick. haha

ALso I might add the the new Prius auto steers for backing into spaces and parallel parking!

Toys4RJill

My guess is that the Ford Escape already has this in the North American market.

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iTrader: (17)

Not a fan of all these power door features. Down the line all this sht breaks and costs thousands to replace. Manual doors FTW. This is for lazy people. No offense, and looks like a pita to operate the system.

Toys4RJill

I agree with you. Down the road they can break. 4Runner and Land Cruiser still have the good old manual style doors.

yardie876

I don't understand why Lexus is void in the auto parking department currently. They were effectively pioneers with the auto parking feature on the LS back in '07. Maybe it was before it's time?

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Jill, one of my customers has a 2014 (or 15 I forgot) LX570 and that has the powered rear upper tailgate. I believe he said to open it, you still have to do it manually, but there is a button on the interior plastic panel of the upper gate that will close it if you push it. I am surprised the LC doesn't have that option since it's basically the same vehicle.

On our 2005 Sienna one of the power side doors no longer works. I guess it's a huge problem on those 2gen Siennas.

Toys4RJill

The LX is half powered. The bottom half is manual or the top half is manual. It's really a bewildering design to be honest

dseag2

The '17 Audi A4 has hands-free trunk opening. Thought you would all enjoy this. Be careful what you wish for. This is pretty amusing...

http://www.audiworld.com/forums/a4-b...-open-2909371/

mmarshall

That foot-under-bumper feature to open the rear hatch was actually started a few years ago on the top-level Ford Escape (Titanium) version, and was a great idea from a convenience point of view for package-laden shoppers. But, in actual practice, the sensor-location under the rear bumper exposed it to a lot of salt, dirt, water, dust, tar from road-work, and other factors which degraded it and either lessened its efficiency or caused it to fail outright.

geko29

It's only a single data point, but ours has worked flawlessly for over a decade. If it failed, it would cost $0 to replace, because the door can still be operated manually in exactly the same manner as the non-power version. The struts are starting to sag, but that happens to all hydraulic pistons over time--even on manual doors--and they're relatively inexpensive to replace. I've done so several times, on vehicles of multiple brands.

Och

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Power life gates are awesome - when the car is dirty with all the winter salt on the roads, I hate to get my hands dirty having to grab it to open and close.

bitkahuna

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except most people don't keep cars more than 3-4 years. new cars FTW

when your arms are full of stuff coming out of the big box store, the remote rear door opening is wonderful. not a question of being lazy. i remote start my car every time i come out of a store/office and i remote the back door if i have stuff to put in/out.

Sulu

Ford and its supplier developed this. This gave Ford exclusive rights to it for the first few years. Now that the time has passed, the supplier can start selling it to other automakers. There are, no doubt, other suppliers that have "copied" it by developing something a little bit different, to get around the patents.