Yandards
Standard Member
So did my first proper longer trip in the car yesterday, round trip Bristol at about 130 miles there and back.
Having had the car for a couple of weeks (although I don't drive it often) it was good to get it out and see how it behaves.
Good stuff:
Liked the handling, it really does go around country roads very nicely. Extra space for the 3 of us was one of the prime reasons to swap from an e208, definitely noticeable on longer runs.
Satnav behaved well, plenty of notice of the random lane swaps you get coming off the M32 into the city - much better than the Peugeot which is a Garmin based system.
Less good stuff:
Cruise control was mega aggressive when cornering until I put the energy recovery into auto mode, then much more tolerable.
GOM is pretty decent compared to the Peugeot, that was regularly widely off.
Not great stuff:
AC settings page is way too fiddly - better now I know you can drag down from the top of the home page to get it to stay up though.
Duration of warning notices, you get a bong and by the time I've looked down it's gone before I can read it.
Massive blue bar on the sat nav page.
In some lighting conditions there is a lot of glare on both screens.
Rubbish stuff:
Bluetooth dropping, pilot disconnects, constantly having to traverse through the menus to get the car setup prior to driving off.
Cruise control and speed limiter settings, thanks to a bicycle leaning council a lot of the surrounding villages have had 20 mph limits applied - I'm not convinced that cars are made to have the throttle pedal in a comfortable position when you need to go that slow so use the limiter. As its a menu option again having to scrawl through to change it.
All in all pleased with it, it's doing what we wanted it to do but I do hope they tweak some of the software stuff - user profiles (I know lane keep assist isn't going away) would be great for starters.
Having had the car for a couple of weeks (although I don't drive it often) it was good to get it out and see how it behaves.
Good stuff:
Liked the handling, it really does go around country roads very nicely. Extra space for the 3 of us was one of the prime reasons to swap from an e208, definitely noticeable on longer runs.
Satnav behaved well, plenty of notice of the random lane swaps you get coming off the M32 into the city - much better than the Peugeot which is a Garmin based system.
Less good stuff:
Cruise control was mega aggressive when cornering until I put the energy recovery into auto mode, then much more tolerable.
GOM is pretty decent compared to the Peugeot, that was regularly widely off.
Not great stuff:
AC settings page is way too fiddly - better now I know you can drag down from the top of the home page to get it to stay up though.
Duration of warning notices, you get a bong and by the time I've looked down it's gone before I can read it.
Massive blue bar on the sat nav page.
In some lighting conditions there is a lot of glare on both screens.
Rubbish stuff:
Bluetooth dropping, pilot disconnects, constantly having to traverse through the menus to get the car setup prior to driving off.
Cruise control and speed limiter settings, thanks to a bicycle leaning council a lot of the surrounding villages have had 20 mph limits applied - I'm not convinced that cars are made to have the throttle pedal in a comfortable position when you need to go that slow so use the limiter. As its a menu option again having to scrawl through to change it.
All in all pleased with it, it's doing what we wanted it to do but I do hope they tweak some of the software stuff - user profiles (I know lane keep assist isn't going away) would be great for starters.
