Tesla is probably the car manufacturer who likes to bury eggs the most. Musk always hides all his whimsy in the central control screen of electric vehicles, waiting for the owner to explore.

Among countless Tesla eggs, I personally think the most interesting ones are Rainbow Road, Underwater Mode and Mars Mode.

For example, after the vehicle enters the automatic driving mode, the rainbow road can be triggered by continuously pulling the cruise lever for four times. At this time, you will find that the automatic cruise road in the LCD instrument has become a dynamic rainbow.

Submarine mode is a tribute to "007 Underwater City". Just hold down the "T" key on the screen for 5 seconds, and a login password will pop up. After entering "007", the car on the screen will become the Lotus Esprit in "007 Underwater City". S 1 Submersible allows the owner to experience the excitement of playing James Bond.

If you don't think it's interesting to go deep into the seabed, you can also "fly to Mars" to explore. Similarly, press and hold the "T" button on the screen and enter the "Mars" password. At this time, the car map will become the surface of Mars. In order to meet the scene, the electric car will become a Mars rover on the map.

Obviously, through intelligent technology, Tesla has provided many interesting hidden eggs, but don't think that car eggs are Tesla's patents.

In fact, in addition to intelligent technology, other brands of cars also provide many very interesting and even practical hidden egg designs through different means. Let's talk about it below.

Practical egg

Although most car eggs are only used to entertain drivers and passengers and have no other practical use, some car eggs are not only impressive, but even have certain practical functions.

Imagine that ten years later, the streets are full of all kinds of silent electric cars, but you are driving a large-displacement V8 American muscle car-2020 Dodge Challenger.

Do you really want to find a place to enjoy that wonderful V8 engine while drinking?

Then the question is, when you open the hood and enjoy the engine, where should you put the drink? At this time, Dodge engineers have given the answer. cup Tory with plastic panel above the grille is really a romantic and practical intimate egg design.

In addition to admiring the cup holder used by the engine, if you have a whim when driving one day and need to solve some problems with mathematical formulas, then the mathematical eggs prepared by Dodge engineers can come in handy.

Check memory? 1500 pickup truck has a huge armrest box under the center console. The lid of the armrest box is engraved with various mathematical formulas, from Pythagorean theorem to fractional and decimal charts and trigonometric formulas.

Although these formulas are generally unlikely to be used, the standard metric wrench conversion table attached to the panel is still very practical.

Skoda's eggs are more practical than Dodge's cup holder and math eggs. One of them is the hidden umbrella in the car door. Yes, it's designed by Rolls-Royce. There is an umbrella in the door.

Obviously, there is no explicit stipulation that you must be a millionaire to enjoy this small luxury, so the intimate Skoda also placed an umbrella at the front door of Speedy, Kodiak, Scala and other models, which is a practical egg for ordinary consumers to enjoy the top luxury car configuration.

Another Skoda practical egg is a small ice shovel inside the fuel tank cover. In fact, this small ice shovel can be used not only to remove the frost on the glass, but also as a magnifying glass to help the owner read the tire pressure label attached to the fuel tank cover.

If it is the latest ice shovel such as Kamiq, it also adds the intimate function of the tire tread depth measuring instrument.

Commemorative egg

Compared with practical designers, there are actually more designers with nostalgic thoughts. They will set up various commemorative eggs in their cars, some of which are easy to find and some of which are hidden deep and need to be dug carefully.

For example, if you are a fan of the Toyota GT86 sports car, you should know that its name is a tribute to the Corolla Levin coupe produced by Toyota 1983 to 1987. At that time, the internal code name of the coupe was AE86.

In addition to the car name, there are actually 86 hidden eggs inside the GT86. For example, the cylinder diameter× stroke size of its four-cylinder engine is exactly 86× 86 mm

There is also the diameter of the rear exhaust pipe. If you measure them with a tape measure, you will find that they are also 86mm, which is a digital egg to pay tribute to AE86.

Then Mazda praised the rotating engine. Although it is simpler than GT86, you need to give full play to your association ability.

You will see many triangular elements on the RX-8 sports car, such as the front cover of the vehicle, the metal joint of the gear lever and the upper cut of the front seat back. These triangular elements are actually a tribute to the abstract modeling of rotary engines.

Jeep is also good at laying eggs, and they especially like making tributes and commemorating eggs.

If you look carefully enough, you will find some small Willis icons under the front windshield of Cherokee and on the rim of herdsman, which is a tribute to the classic Willis Jeep during World War II.

In the hopper of the foot fighter pickup truck, you will find a strange number "4 19" next to a heart-shaped symbol.

This string of numbers is actually one of the two area codes assigned to northwest Ohio. As for 4 19, it is the area code of Toledo factory, the birthplace of foot fighters. In order to commemorate its birth factory, Jeep carved this series of numbers on the bucket.

In order to commemorate the legendary sports car GT40 that forced Ferrari to quit Le Mans, Ford launched a brand-new Ford GT production sports car in 2003, which happened to be the centenary birthday of GT40.

So the designer hid the number 100 as a small commemorative egg in the headlights of this new V8 sports car. By the way, although the production version of Ford GT was actually launched in 2004, its lighting design has remained unchanged at 100.

Interesting egg

In addition to practical and commemorative eggs, in fact, the role of most car eggs is only to add more fun to the car, just like the nature of Tesla's screen eggs.

For example, the small spider eggs hidden by Volvo on the second generation XC90 are specially prepared for children passengers who often sit in the third row.

In order to make children less bored in the car, Dennis, then vice president of the 90 series product project? NoBailieu thought of hiding a cute little spider in the lid of the back locker to make them happy.

The shark icon has almost become a traditional egg in vauxhall. It is said that when vauxhall first introduced the Corsa model in 2006, it had a hobby of "hiding sharks".

At that time, they hid the shark pattern in the hinge position of the glove box because the son of one of the designers thought it was a very cool idea.

Since then, sharks have become the mascots of vauxhall, appearing in Adam, Astra, Insignia and other cars, as well as in various places in the car, such as the storage box in the center console and the storage compartment in the door. Finding these hidden sharks has also become a unique pleasure for vauxhall car owners.

Although the accelerator and brake pedal are the most commonly used car control mechanisms, some designers choose to hide the eggs here because they are under their feet and are easily overlooked.

Renault Twingo? RS printed iconic pause, stop and play icons (a pair of vertical lines, a square and a triangle) on the clutch, brake and accelerator pedal respectively, turning the car into a mobile "computer player".

In addition to Renault, Volkswagen also played the same player stalk on the ID.3 electric car, except that the electric car did not have a clutch pedal, so Volkswagen simply turned the accelerator and brake pedal into play and pause buttons.

Write it at the end

In fact, most car hiding eggs is just a small means to narrow the distance between brands and users, which is not necessarily practical. But we especially hope that independent brands can also explore ideas in this respect and make some interesting egg designs.

After all, a small hidden egg doesn't cost much, but it is the brand's understanding of car culture and the embodiment of car companies' intentions to users. Moreover, it is a good thing to have car eggs to stimulate our desire to explore cars. iDailycar

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