1.5 3 CVT 4WD

Too flawed to be good

Got the car new, liked the unusual looks, liked the low price point.
Sadly it is horribly horribly flawed

Pros
You get a lot of car for your money
4x4 system seemed pretty capable

Cons
Engine is too small and too thirsty - this thing ate fuel.
Gearbox - the CVT is horrible, unresponsive, and dumb as a box of bricks.
The split read windscreen (which admittedly i really liked when i saw it) has no windscreen wiper. In the UK, on muddy wet roads, spray rides up, covers the screen and now you can't see out of it.
The car is also one massive blindspot.
The width is strange - if you have an SUV you are normally used to the car being wide enough to roll over road humps with the wheels on either side - in this thing it's just too narrow which means every road hump feels like a rollercoaster.

Overall
With a 2 litre diesel engine and a manual box, this car could have been brilliant. But instead it is fuel hungry, annoying and generally a pain in the a*** to drive. It is cumbersome like a big car, but seems to have the guts of a much smaller one.

There are a lot of better alternatives.

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