Abstract: A cup holder/heater plate integrated with heating system in a motor vehicle using exhaust gas heat for heating food/drink items. The heating system has a cup holder/heater plate provided in the console of the vehicle with a heater coil tube at bottom of said cup holder/heater plate. A fluid reservoir having inlet connected to the one end of the heater coil to receive cold fluid and outlet of the reservoir connected to the first inlet of a circulating pump for pumping cold fluid through a first outlet of the said pump to one end of the heating coil tube/heat exchanger around the exhaust manifold with other end of the said heating coil/heater plate coil connected to the second inlet of the pump for circulation of heated fluid through the second outlet of the pump to the the heater coil tube. The pump having a controller for controlling the circulation of the fluid.