Traditional car part could disappear from interiors & become EXTINCT with just one new model featuring it in past year

A COMMON car portion is verging connected the brink of extinction and could soon vanish wholly from the interiors of each caller motors.

The accepted handbrake could soon go a happening of the past with lone 1 retired of 42 caller cars launched successful the past twelvemonth featuring it.

What’s more, respective hugely fashionable brands person done distant with it each unneurotic already.

New probe has shown that conscionable 8% of showroom models person a manual handbrake, a steep diminution from 37% immoderate six years ago.

Experts astatine CarGurus reviewed 39 manufacturers and recovered that retired of 587 models disposable successful the UK, lone 49 person a manual handbrake - chiefly successful sportier oregon smaller vehicles.

The Dacia Spring, granted 1 of the astir fashionable cars successful the UK, is the lone caller car from the past twelvemonth that features a manual handbrake option.

It is thought that the once-standard diagnostic could soon vanish from showrooms completely, going the aforesaid mode arsenic the cassette subordinate and wind-up windows.

Popular car brands that person eliminated manual handbrakes see Alfa Romeo, BMW, Honda, Jaguar, Land Rover, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Peugeot, Porsche, and Volvo.

Italian marque Abarth was the past shaper to connection a handbrake crossed its range, but they excessively removed the enactment aft the motorboat of the Abarth 500e successful 2022.

In caller times, the handbrake has been removed from the likes of the Volkswagen Up, Vauxhall Crossland, and Fiat Tipo Cross.

BMW had 14 manual handbrake models successful 2019 but present has none, and Renault, which had eight, present lone offers the Trafic Passenger.

But Hyundai presently has six models featuring manual handbrakes, with Dacia, Fiat, Suzuki, and VW each with four.

The emergence of electric cars, astir each of which usage physics parking brakes, has accelerated the diminution of manual handbrakes.

Chris Knapman, exertion astatine CarGurus UK, notes that "the days of the manual handbrake are numbered."

He explains that physics parking brakes, erstwhile a luxury feature, are present modular successful astir caller cars.

To this end, the power to physics parking brakes, which are safer but much costly to repair, volition spell the extremity of the celebrated handbrake turn.

For those inactive preferring manual handbrakes, the utilized car marketplace remains an option.

This comes just months aft the CD subordinate kicked the bucket, with the diagnostic present wholly extinct from each caller car models.

Subaru's determination to region the instrumentality from 1 of its SUVs heralded the decease of the CD subordinate successful vehicles, with nary mainstream car brands successful the UK present offering the feature, according to Which?