2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you'd have to buy a new car.

3. Occasionally your car would just die for no reason, you'd have to restart it. For some strange reason, you would just accept this.

4. You could only have one person at a time in your car, unless you bought a car '95 or a car NT, but then you'd have to buy more seats.

5. You would be constantly pressured to upgrade your car.

6. The oil, alternator, gas, engine warning lights would be replaced with a single "General Car Fault" warning light.

7. People would get excited about the "new" features in Microsoft cars, forgetting completely that they had been available in other brands for years.

8. There would be no ignition key, just a 'start' button.

9. For lack of a better idea, and to prevent anybody developing an independent identity for their car, all models would simply be dubbed 'MyCar'.

10. All the neat useful bits like head lights, accelerator pedal, and paint, would come in an optional 'Plus' pack.