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Worth noting that these features appear to require your car to be connected to a cellular network. This isn’t the same as BMW charging a fee for heated seats.
They could have just put a SIM card in your car and required you to pay your cell phone provider for a connection.
I have something similar for my Subaru but it's only 4 dollars a month.
It's a fee I gladly pay to be able to start my car and set the interior climate from my phone. I imagine there's some cost the access a network to have that functionality and I don't see a problem paying for it.
The old style that started from a key fob required you to be a lot closer to the vehicle to start it. Right now I start it a few minutes before I leave my building a quarter of a mile away. I could start it from a different country if I wanted to. Needing to be within a few hundred feet would be pretty useless to me.
Very personal opinion of mine, I hate subscription crap. However, I have to agree that, based on what you say, Subaru's cost is much easier to digest than Hyundai/Kia POS.