Check engine light, on star (every car brand has its equivalent), over priced parts that decompose or are designed to break (headlights, bumpers...)
If you buy a newer car, you are buying a disposable product that after a very defined useful life becomes junk. Are you going to pay the high price of replacing the battery on an old hybrid or all electric car? Nope, you buy a new one.
Unless you have an older car, you have a car that is designed to nickle and dime you to death. It's only getting really absurd/ridiculous now.
Soon you'll be paying for service for things where 30 years ago they already figured out how to make it reliable and lasting the entire life of the vehicle without any service. Like your refrigerator, a red light will come on and ask you to pay $40 for a filter. Maybe a cabin air filter where they don't even tell you where it is at.
There once was a time where people looked at reliability, warranty, ability to DIY things. You'd have folks get on their knees and look underneath the car, or ask how easy it is to change the oil oneself... On a modern car, in some cases you cannot even change the oil yourself. Today the modern metro-sexual car buyer doesn't care about any of that. He's looking for how many USB ports are inside the car. Mechanical POS that is full of blinky lights and gadgets.
Yes, but those are different because I don’t need pay a monthly fee for those things in order to run my car.
I can do without a radio or airbag, if push comes to shove.