A good vehicle with notable disappointments
I bought this vehicle new and traded-in an 11-year-old VW Golf which I loved. I’ve been a VW owner for a long time but, as that company had been going through a lot of internal crises, it seemed time to consider something else. It’s surprising how many intelligent features the Golf had which the Crosstrek does not, for example, automatically locking the doors when you put the car in motion. The list of such things is not short. The Crosstrek lives up to its billing in quality of build, fit, and finish and it has all of the touted safety features. As I’ve said, it’s big shortcoming is in the intelligence of the design of the driver-vehicle interface. Particularly frustrating is the audio/media system.
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