Best cars with 360-degree cameras
Are you after a car with a 360-degree camera to help with those awkward parking situations? Here are some of the best you should consider.
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By Ben Welham
Last updated: 17 January 2025
Parking can be difficult, that’s a fact. Especially if it’s a new car park or one that’s narrow or unfamiliar. And the feeling of dinging or scratching your car’s paintwork is devastating – another fact.
That’s why most modern cars now come with a high-quality 360-degree parking camera system that helps you park with ease, even if you have a long car with some tricky blind spots.
If your parking sensors just aren’t cutting it, here are some of the best cars with 360 cameras to level up your parking.
The best cars with a 360 camera
MINI Countryman
Peugeot 5008
Mercedes S-Class
Hyundai IONIQ 6
Audi Q4 e-tron
BMW X3
Nissan Qashqai
Volvo XC40
Which cars have a 360 camera?
MINI Countryman
The MINI Countryman has been around for a number of years now but the latest generation – introduced in 2024 – has one of the best 360-degree cameras we’ve ever used.
Available on the Level 3 spec (along with a panoramic sunroof, Harman/Kardon sound system and heated front seats), you get a crisp camera that makes parking a doddle in this boxy SUV.
Even when the 450-litre boot is full, you’re able to easily see when reversing by using the camera to help you.
Read our MINI Countryman review
Peugeot 5008
To improve a car as much as Peugeot has with the 5008 is no easy feat, but that’s exactly what it did. The result? One of the best seven-seater family SUVs on the market.
And with this update comes one of the crispest parking cameras you can get – even more impressive in a car of the 5008’s price range.
So even when you have a full car (and this is a big car), you won’t struggle to see around any heads in the back row.
Read our Peugeot 5008 review
Mercedes S-Class
It would be blatantly rude not to include the Mercedes S-Class in this list. With it being one of the most luxurious cars on the market, it’s only natural that it gets the best tech.
The 360 camera in the S-Class is so advanced that you can pan and zoom around the car to get an even better view of what’s going on. It’s not the only car to offer it, but not many match the buttery smoothness of the Merc.
Plus, with its 12.8-inch screen, the picture is so big even rear-seat passengers can see what’s going on.
Read our Mercedes S-Class review
Hyundai IONIQ 6
From its digital side mirrors to its futuristic styling, it wouldn’t make sense for the Hyundai IONIQ 6 not to have a parking camera. Thankfully it has a really good one.
Thanks to its wide landscape screen, you can get two views up at once – one you can manually swipe around for close-ups and the other for a bird’s eye view of what’s all around the car.
This especially helps with the narrow rear window, which can sometimes be tricky to see out of, depending on your height.
Read our Hyundai IONIQ 6 review
Audi Q4 e-tron
Being able to see around your car is the main reason you’d spec a 360-degree camera on your car, and the Audi Q4 e-tron's top-down view means you can see either side of the car when you’re reversing or driving into a tight parking space.
This is achieved by a range of cameras positioned around the exterior of the car, that once stitched together, show a clear view of what’s surrounding the vehicle.
The system works really well in the Q4 e-tron, and the 10.1-inch screen helps to get the best possible view.
BMW X3
BMW has really stepped up its tech game in recent years, taking what was a fairly simple (if premium and well-built) interior in most of its cars to one filled with the latest and greatest screens, keeping up with other high-end cars.
The camera is one of the stand-out features. Much like the system in the Countryman, which shares some of its underpinnings with the X3, it’s crisp and super intuitive.
This is particularly thanks to its 12.3-inch, high-definition display that shows up really nicely when you’re tackling a parking manoeuvre.
Read our BMW X3 review
Nissan Qashqai
There’s a reason the Nissan Qashqai is one of the best-selling cars in the UK, and that’s because it does everything you need it to in a tidy package, at a decent price.
And, with its 360-degree camera, helping you become a parking pro is just one of those things.
Don’t be fooled by its lower price either. It still has a camera system that rivals the other cars on this list with its wide screen and swipeability.
Read our Nissan Qashqai review
Volvo XC40
Like everything Volvo does, the XC40’s parking camera is minimalist yet functional.
It has a clear top-down view of the car, meaning you can see the white lines of the space you’re driving into.
A clever little addition, which we’re not sure was completely intentional, is that the portrait display perfectly fits the top-down view of the car. It’s much more zoomed in than in the widescreen displays of other cars on.
This means it’s easier and clearer to see than in many of its rivals. How often do you use your smartphone in landscape mode? Exactly.
Read our Volvo XC40 review
How do 360-degree car cameras work?
360-degree cameras in cars work very much like there’s someone sitting on top of your car videoing everything around you, making parking far easier.
The truth is that your car’s software stitches together the feeds from cameras placed around the outside of the car – tech trickery.H3: How to use a 360 camera
Most cars automatically bring up the parking camera when you select reverse, and there are often buttons to choose the angle or move the camera around.
There’s also usually a button to turn the cameras on manually, which is ideal for driving around narrow streets at low speeds or pulling into a parking space forward.
Once it’s on, they’re easy to use, just make sure to look at your actual surroundings as well as the cameras.
Explore used cars
Finding a used car with a 360-degree parking camera is high up on many people’s wishlists now that parking sensors just don’t quite cut the mustard in 2025.
It’s only natural since we all want a faff-free parking experience, and to keep our car’s paintwork spick-and-span. Or, if you are a bit clumsy, adding cinchCover to your purchase means you have that extra peace of mind.