Comfort and Convenience
Comfort is personal: seating height, how upright a backrest should feel and how warm a cabin needs to be all differ from one person to the next. Two people sharing a car often settle on quite different arrangements.
Safety and Driver Assistance
Learning where the essentials sit, such as lights, wipers, demister and hazard switch, is worth doing while parked. Choosing a route or setting the climate before moving off leaves fewer reasons to look away once underway.
Multimedia and Connectivity
A phone that arrives with its charge intact matters on longer trips, so a usable power source counts. Where hands-free calling is available it keeps conversation off the handset, and listening to music is a separate matter again.