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The biggest nannying car ever?

The good bits; Good looking, very comfortable, good ride, pretty frugal (equivalent of circa 105 MPG around town, 80 on motorway, Spacious interior, handling is good for this type of vehicle. Very quite below 40mph.

The bad bits; way too nannying; the drive attention monitor is way sensitive, you can even look left and right at a junction or hold the steering wheel in the wrong place and block the camera, without it bonging loudly and speedo on the driver display moving to the side and displays a warning. You can switch it off but, and it's a big but, woe betide you if you persist in holding the steering wheel in the wrong place or go round a bend, thereby blocking the camera as it will again bong loudly and move the display again, sometimes every few minutes. It is both distracting and infuriating. What charlie thought this was a good idea? Select reverse and the bonging starts again with a vengeance and keeps bonging, loudly, to the point where you prefer to get out and push rather than suffer the bonging. Another one of chump charlies ideas? I think most of know when we deliberate switch something off or are going backwards. Maybe one bong when you fist start the car, indicating the driver alert is switched off, and one bong when you select reverse is all that is needed and would be acceptable - just. The bongs keep coming if you open a door or tailgate. There are way too many "adjustments" that you can make but the controls are confusing, some can only be done on the centre touch screen, others can only be done from the steering wheel and many more only by the dealer. Road noise is a real issue, on most surfaces, above 40 mph. The complexity of the AC / heating adjustments leads to great fatigue, In my vehicle at least, the satnav will please itself whether it displays where charging points are located. A fundamental problem for an EV when away from home. The smartphone app is useful but again pleases itself whether it displays the cars range in miles or Km, there is no toggle, it's a question of switch off and start again. Overall I expect better Subaru/Toyota. They could easily have done better.

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