You are correct, but my personal experience makes me sometimes wonder how, with all this technology, we seem to be going backwards in some areas of functionality. I have a 1992 Ford Explorer with 198,000 miles on it. I use it exclusively to drive one mile to a coffee shop every morning, M-F, and back. A round trip of 2 miles five days a week. I have been doing this all Winter long, and I have no battery problems whatsoever, even starting it when the temperature was a bit below zero.

I also spent $1,200 to get the comfort seats on my X5, and I find the bottom seat bolsters to be too narrow for my apparently big behind. So I went to adjust the bolsters, and found they were non-adjustable. Heck, my old Explorer has power adjustable sat bottom bolsters, making my 18 year old Ford seats more comfortable than BMW's latest and greatest $1,200 "top of the line" seats.

Looks like I'm going to have to buy a small foam cushion for the driver's seat for long trips.