Five hidden easter eggs you might find in your car

Car easter eggs – those little fun details that the designers hide – have been around for decades. Jeep is thought to have started the modern easter egg thing in 1997, with a bonnet vent below the windscreen of the Wrangler. It had exactly seven slots, in homage to Jeep grilles going back to the ‘50s. You can find surprise-and-delight details hidden in loads of cars now. So here are five modern easter eggs that we've found.

This one’s a bit more obvious than a specific number of slots in an air vent, and a lot easier to find. New Jeeps have an old Jeep, a really little one, at the bottom corner of windscreen.

The latest Prius is a revelation. Proper stylish, good fun to drive… it's now a rubbish Uber, basically. So why Toyota decided to jump on the hashtag trend, like it’s 2009, is anyone’s guess. But hey, you'll always know where your ‘#glovebox is, and your #hiddencompartment. Even more weird, the one message that would make a meaningful hashtag, the 'Prius Reborn' one beneath the windscreen, doesn't actually use one. *shrug shoulders emoji*

The Fiat 500 electric has a couple of easter eggs. The Turin skyline etched into the phone holder is easy to find. It’s a bit more difficult to locate the original 500 embossed into the grab handle though. Quite literally a nice touch.

A canny little easter egg for the electric age, Volkswagen had the bright idea of adding play and pause logos to the stop and go pedals of its ID cars. Simple but creative. The company recently took the idea further with the one-off ‘Fire & Ice’ version of the ID.3 GTX. Click through the photos above to see.

Volvo is, of course, famed for being a crash safety pioneer, not least because one of its people, Nils Bohlin, invented the three-point seatbelt. Therefore, Volvo was the first to use one in 1959 – a fact it celebrates on its belt buckles.