Ah right, this was BMW too:

For the past few years, BMW has behaved in a way that seems to treat their buyers as targets for more revenue over everything else. Remember all their subscription bullshit? People hated that, and worked around it, and eventually BMW had to dial that back, because having a subscription for heated seats makes people want to riot.

So, definitely on the "don't even consider" list.

Now I can pretend I’m in a NYC taxicab that smells like cigarettes and vomit! Nice work, BMW!

Watering down the brand, lol

I own a house, and I make payments to a mortgage company every month, and I’m pretty sure it would be illegal for that mortgage company to put a fucking Spider-Man billboard in my yard, facing my front windows.

So... you don't own a house, the bank owns it. Don't give them ideas.

No one pays $61,500...they rent them, but they call it "leasing". It's a mechanism for douchenozzles to drive something they can't afford.

Well that was a dodged bullet. I'm glad we settled on a different car when we got ours recently.

Still, I think pretty much the whole industry is moving towards SaaS bullshit. Everything from subscription heated seats to ads in the infotainment. Hell, even in our new car, I can't start the car without it begging me to connect to Amazon and setup Alexa. It's making me miss my older car's basic dash and infotainment honestly, but getting Android Auto/Car Play and a suspension that doesn't feel like the Tower of Terror (or whatever it's called now) whenever we go over a speed bump was life changing.

This shit should be illegal. At the very least, I hope that ad isn't playing while driving.

Are there any car brands which don't do things like this

Am I tripping or is the start of this article a transcript of a Louis Rossman video I watched earlier this week?

Ah, the irony of seeing a Kia advert while cruising the autobahn in your brand new shiny BMW. "Hey! I could bought a KIA, saved a shitload of money and avoided adverts? Damn!".