timcole421
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Kind of a review after the honeymoon period has lapsed.
The good:
-Car still looks good.
-Car still rides good.
-Tires have some noise after use, but are holding up.
-Economy is excellent.
-No major issues that can be fixed at this point.
-Handles well.
-Far from fast, but almost enough power to be fun.
The bad:
-I have the ding around the c-pillar that these get for no reason.
-The infotainment is problem ridden, which I hoped would be rectified by now. I did get one update which I had to PAY for since mileage apparently releases them from liabilities of writing crappy firmware.
-Sensing is worthless.
*Lane departure warning has at several times mistaken marks on the road from old lanes, or merging across in construction areas as me driving off the road. This causes a heavy brake-check unwillingly to whoever happens to be behind me.
*Lane keep assist is worthless. It tends to hug the left side of the lane near the road lines instead of being centered. It automatically tries to make you exit left at speed at every cross in the highway, it just turns you at speed. Even on straight stretches of road 9 times out of 10 it takes you so far to the left that the lane departure kicks in shaking the wheel, killing LKAS and pointing you more off the road than LKAS was taking you off to begin with. Without fail if I go to show someone how it works, it drives us straight out of the lane. Awesome.
*Adaptive cruise control is also worthless. At the closest follow setting, it still leaves around 10 carlengths distance between you and the car in front of you. This is not close enough to let the car ahead know that you're waiting to pass. You usually just sit there going as slow as them also holding up traffic in the passing lane. The alternative, and what I usually do it kill the cruise and roll up to a safe distance to let them know I am waiting to pass. You can just manually use the gas pedal to close the distance while leaving cruise on....but if you let off of the gas in the slightest sense the car brakes fairly hard to get back to it's 10 carlength back position. Low speed follow is also far too jerky and aggressive on the gas and brake to be useful in any way.
*Collision mitigation: Maybe the one thing that works properly and as designed. Unsure, thankfully haven't really tested it.
Conclusion: A pretty good car with awful technology firmware and after a year, no update to correct any of this. The semi-autonomous features have all of the skills and smoothness of a first time student driver with a BAC of about .02. Would I buy again? Probably not. But then again at this point I would probably not ever buy any new car of any kind.
The good:
-Car still looks good.
-Car still rides good.
-Tires have some noise after use, but are holding up.
-Economy is excellent.
-No major issues that can be fixed at this point.
-Handles well.
-Far from fast, but almost enough power to be fun.
The bad:
-I have the ding around the c-pillar that these get for no reason.
-The infotainment is problem ridden, which I hoped would be rectified by now. I did get one update which I had to PAY for since mileage apparently releases them from liabilities of writing crappy firmware.
-Sensing is worthless.
*Lane departure warning has at several times mistaken marks on the road from old lanes, or merging across in construction areas as me driving off the road. This causes a heavy brake-check unwillingly to whoever happens to be behind me.
*Lane keep assist is worthless. It tends to hug the left side of the lane near the road lines instead of being centered. It automatically tries to make you exit left at speed at every cross in the highway, it just turns you at speed. Even on straight stretches of road 9 times out of 10 it takes you so far to the left that the lane departure kicks in shaking the wheel, killing LKAS and pointing you more off the road than LKAS was taking you off to begin with. Without fail if I go to show someone how it works, it drives us straight out of the lane. Awesome.
*Adaptive cruise control is also worthless. At the closest follow setting, it still leaves around 10 carlengths distance between you and the car in front of you. This is not close enough to let the car ahead know that you're waiting to pass. You usually just sit there going as slow as them also holding up traffic in the passing lane. The alternative, and what I usually do it kill the cruise and roll up to a safe distance to let them know I am waiting to pass. You can just manually use the gas pedal to close the distance while leaving cruise on....but if you let off of the gas in the slightest sense the car brakes fairly hard to get back to it's 10 carlength back position. Low speed follow is also far too jerky and aggressive on the gas and brake to be useful in any way.
*Collision mitigation: Maybe the one thing that works properly and as designed. Unsure, thankfully haven't really tested it.
Conclusion: A pretty good car with awful technology firmware and after a year, no update to correct any of this. The semi-autonomous features have all of the skills and smoothness of a first time student driver with a BAC of about .02. Would I buy again? Probably not. But then again at this point I would probably not ever buy any new car of any kind.
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