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I'm afraid Tesla is the favorite car manufacturer to bury eggs. Musk always hides his whimsy in the central control screen of electric cars and waits for the owners to discover it.

Among the countless Tesla eggs, the most interesting ones include Rainbow Road, submarine mode and Mars mode.

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

The submarine mode is a tribute to Underwater City 7. Just press and hold the "T" button on the screen for 5 seconds, and a login password will pop up. After entering "7", the car on the screen will become the Lotus Esprit in Underwater City 7. S1 submersible allows the owner to experience the excitement of playing James Bond.

If you don't think it's interesting enough to go deep into the sea, 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, and in order to meet the scene, the electric car will turn into 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 by different means. Let's talk about it below.

Practical Eggs

Although most car eggs are only used to entertain drivers and passengers, there are no other practical purposes, some car eggs are not only impressive, but even have some 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, the 22 Dodge Challenger.

at this time, do you really want to find a place to enjoy that wonderful V8 engine while drinking?

So the question comes. When you open the engine cover, where should you put the drinks? At this time, the Dodge engineer has given the answer, and the 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 for the engine, if you have a whim when driving one day and need to use mathematical formulas to solve some problems, then the mathematical eggs prepared by Dodge engineers can come in handy.

check the Ram? There is a huge armrest box under the center console of 15 pickup truck. The cover of the armrest box is engraved with various mathematical formulas, from Pythagorean theorem to fractions, decimal charts and triangular formulas.

Although it is unlikely to use these formulas in general, the standard-metric wrench conversion table attached to the panel is still very practical.

Compared with Dodge's cup holder and mathematical eggs, Skoda's eggs are more practical. One of them is the hidden umbrella in the car door. Yes, it's the Rolls-Royce design with an umbrella inside the door.

Obviously, there is no written stipulation that you must be a millionaire to enjoy this little luxury, so the thoughtful Skoda also placed an umbrella in the front door of Speedy, Kodiak and Scala 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 set inside the fuel tank cover. In fact, this small ice shovel can not only be used to remove the frost on the glass, but also be used as a magnifying glass to help the owner read the tire pressure label posted in the fuel tank cover.

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

Commemorative Eggs

Compared with designers of practical eggs, 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 deeply, which need careful excavation.

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

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

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

Then there is Mazda's tribute to the rotary engine. Although it is more simple than GT86, it needs everyone to give full play to their Lenovo ability.

you will see that there are many triangular elements in the RX-8 sports car, such as the front hood of the vehicle, the metal joint of the gear lever, and the upper cut of the front seat back. These triangular elements are actually an abstract modeling tribute to the rotary engine.

Jeep is also good at setting up eggs, and they especially like to make tribute and commemorative 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 Footfighter pickup truck, you will find a strange number "419" next to a heart-shaped symbol.

this string of numbers is actually one of the two area codes assigned to northwest Ohio. As for 419, which is the area code of Toledo factory, the birthplace of Foot Fighter, in order to commemorate the factory where it was born, Jeep carved this series of numbers in the car hopper.

in order to commemorate the legendary sports car GT4 that forced Ferrari to withdraw from Le Mans, Ford launched a new Ford GT production sports car in 23, which happened to be the centenary birthday of GT4.

therefore, the designer hid the number 1 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 24, its lighting design has remained unchanged at the age of 1.

Funny Eggs

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

For example, the little spider egg hidden by Volvo in the second generation XC9 is specially prepared for children passengers who often sit in the third row.

in order to make children less bored in the car, Dennis, who was then the vice president of the 9-series product project? Nobelius thought of hiding a cute little spider in the lid of the back storage box to make them happy.

The shark icon has almost become a traditional egg in vauxhall. It is said that when the Corsa model was first introduced in vauxhall in 26, there was a hobby of "hiding sharks".

At that time, they hid the shark pattern in the hinge 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 one after another, and also 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 become a unique pleasure for car owners in vauxhall.

Although the accelerator and brake pedal are the most commonly used automobile 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, the brake and the accelerator pedal respectively, which turned the car into a mobile "computer player".

in addition to Renault, Volkswagen also played the same player stalk in the ID.3 electric car, except that the electric car has no clutch pedal, so Volkswagen simply turned the accelerator and brake pedal directly into play and pause buttons.

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In fact, most hidden eggs in cars are just a small means to narrow the distance between brands and users, which is not necessarily practical. However, we especially hope that our own 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 automobile culture and a reflection of the car companies' intentions towards users. Moreover, it is a good thing to have car eggs to stimulate our desire to explore cars. IDailycar

This article comes from the author of Chejia, car home, and does not represent car home's standpoint.