# Do cars in your area have custom features? How about car commercials? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 19, 2012, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-cars-in-your-area-have-custom-features-how-about-car-commercials/622378 "2012-05-19T01:21:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-cars-in-your-area-have-custom-features-how-about-car-commercials/622378/1 "2012-05-19T01:21:07Z")
In Colorado (and I assume other mountain states) if you flip down the armrest in the back seat of a sedan, there is a collapsible bag between the back seat and the trunk that allows you to put skis in the trunk so the tips extend into the back seat area. Re: Commercials. I am talking about the manufacturer’s commercials, not the local dealers. Here we see commercials from all manufacturers that feature the cars driving through heavy snow in the mountains. I assume that they don’t see these in Florida. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-cars-in-your-area-have-custom-features-how-about-car-commercials/622378/2 "2012-05-19T01:54:17Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > In Colorado (and I assume other mountain states) if you flip down the armrest in the back seat of a sedan, there is a collapsible bag between the back seat and the trunk that allows you to put skis in the trunk so the tips extend into the back seat area. > > . My car has that. For guns. In Texas, I think it was Ford trucks, “Built Texas Tough!” Not a dealership commercial, a manufacturer. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-cars-in-your-area-have-custom-features-how-about-car-commercials/622378/3 "2012-05-19T02:02:35Z")
Block heaters. Standard on all vehicles in Saakatchewan. I assume you don’t have those on Florida either. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-cars-in-your-area-have-custom-features-how-about-car-commercials/622378/4 "2012-05-19T02:07:55Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > My car has that. For guns. ? How many guns don’t fit horizontally into the trunk? > [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Block heaters. Standard on all vehicles in Saakatchewan. I assume you don’t have those on Florida either. That’s a good example. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-cars-in-your-area-have-custom-features-how-about-car-commercials/622378/5 "2012-05-19T02:14:25Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > ? How many guns don’t fit horizontally into the trunk? The T-Rex killers. I don’t use it for guns. But I don’t use it for skis, either. My car came from a dealer in Minnesota. Maybe it was meant for the Rockies. Seemed to me that it was just something added in for unwieldy trunk cargo of any kind. I didn’t ask for it. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-cars-in-your-area-have-custom-features-how-about-car-commercials/622378/6 "2012-05-19T02:16:28Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > The T-Rex killers. I don’t use it for guns. But I don’t use it for skis, either. My car came from a dealer in Minnesota. Maybe it was meant for the Rockies. Seemed to me that it was just something added in for unwieldy trunk cargo of any kind. I didn’t ask for it. Did you get a block heater as well? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-cars-in-your-area-have-custom-features-how-about-car-commercials/622378/7 "2012-05-19T02:19:34Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Block heaters. Standard on all vehicles in Saakatchewan. I assume you don’t have those on Florida either. I can’t find a cite, can’t even figure out where I read it, but a while back I was looking for something and stumbled across a message board where a bunch of people where discussing whether or not a cars (at least Hondas) shipped to Hawaii had heater cores. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-cars-in-your-area-have-custom-features-how-about-car-commercials/622378/8 "2012-05-19T02:20:28Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > Did you get a block heater as well? No. Do CO cars generally come with that? Just wondering. When I lived in Morrison, I could’ve used one a few times. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-cars-in-your-area-have-custom-features-how-about-car-commercials/622378/9 "2012-05-19T02:24:56Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > No. Do CO cars generally come with that? Just wondering. When I lived in Morrison, I could’ve used one a few times. No. It rarely gets cold enough here to warrant it, other than a few geographically favored locations (Fraser). ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-cars-in-your-area-have-custom-features-how-about-car-commercials/622378/10 "2012-05-19T02:38:31Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > No. It rarely gets cold enough here to warrant it, other than a few geographically favored locations (Fraser). 🙂 My friend who lived in Fraser always called it Freezer. At least I could actually comfortably use an outdoor swimming pool in the summer! As far as features, I can say it’s very rare to see a car sold down in the Texas area without A/C. I’ve heard it’s not 100% A/C’ed cars in some areas. Could’ve heard wrong. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-cars-in-your-area-have-custom-features-how-about-car-commercials/622378/11 "2012-05-19T03:07:44Z")
Would not that small door from back seat to trunk be used for purchases like brooms and rakes?