Full of frustrating design choices
Small frustrations with this vehicle are the reason I would not recommend it to people. Design decisions can make or break a vehicle and I firmly believe that the multitude of choices that they made make this vehicle more frustrating to live with day-to-day than it's worth.
The only mirror that auto dims is the rear view, and it still has a quarter inch reflective, non dimming bezel the entire perimeter of the mirror.
The tachometer is on the right, not the left. Despite the entire instrument cluster being digital, you cannot change it.
If you get a warning or a pop-up, it will replace the tachometer with the warning depiction and hitting OK on the steering wheel mounted button does not actually dismiss it. It will continue to ding and chime and pop up until it has decided that it has done so enough. The best bet is to not acknowledge it and it will just go away after a while.
Android Auto does not utilize the full infotainment system screen.
The daylight sensor is in a position on the dash that regularly confuses shadows for nighttime and will auto-dend the instrument cluster and infotainment system. To the best of my knowledge, I have not found a way to change this or disable it. Despite this, you can still manually change the brightness of the infotainment system and dash.
The trunk has a proximity self-opening feature, where if the car is locked and it detects the key fob behind the trunk long enough, it will automatically unlatch the trunk. The trunk does not open fully by itself. It opens far enough to clear the latch system, but will not continue to open into the full open position. As a result, you have to use your knee or elbow or a free hand to open it the rest of the way, but it also does not click into a detent when fully opened to stay fully opened, and if it has enough momentum when opening from you nudging it with your elbow, to hit the fully opened position, it can then bounce back and close, or at least hit you while you're trying to put stuff in the trunk. There is no adjustment on the springs. There is no gas strut installed. There is nothing that can change this that I have been able to find.
It does not have cruise control. It has smart cruise, which uses the forward-facing proximity sensor and a pre-collision sensor to keep you at either your set speed or the set distance from the vehicle in front of you, but there is no way to use standard cruise control. If this sensor gets covered by dirt and grime or snow and slush and becomes fully obstructed, it just disables cruise control completely.
The built-in navigation system takes longer to just simply boot up and open, then it takes me to start my info GPS.
The Bluetooth Media option takes longer to connect than the Sat Nav does to boot up. There is no aux port.
It has built-in chargers for your phones, but they are so low power that my phone will continue to die even while plugged in. Just slower.
Despite all of the smart features and all of this space overhead, there is no sunglasses, holder, nor are there garage door openers built in.
The app is programmed really weird, because it knows if the car is locked or unlocked, and it knows that the car has to be locked to remote start, but trying to initiate a remote start when the car is unlocked will not simply tell the car, lock and then start, but rather will require to attempt the remote start inform you in the app that it failed because the car was unlocked. So, if the car is locked, then it will require you to then lock the car, wait for it to lock, and then remote start. It can take upwards of two minutes for the command to go through, for the car to process, and then for the app to display the result of it. This means that what could simply be one button push, and then continuing about what you are doing, now becomes three separate instances of checking the app.
The ride is a lot stiffer and louder than I would have expected, and certainly stiffer and louder than many other sedans that I've driven over the years.
The panel gaps on the exterior of this vehicle are massive. It legitimately does not look like it was actually made as one car, but rather every individual panel was made on its own and then just hoped that they would fit together.
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