I have 2wd LR in Canada. We've driven it about 9000km. Most of our driving is windey BC highways. My early impressions:
I love this car. It's quiet, it's really solid in the corners, it's comfortable and it moves like a mofo when you tell it to. It's big and roomy, I can stick a mountain bike, a cello, a cat in a box, 2 golden retriever sized dogs, a couple weekend bags and some groceries in it without playing tetris. It's got good range, I often see it telling me there are about 420km in the tank, my wife often sees 500km, it knows how I drive. It must differentiate us by fob. The seating is not too high or too low, my 80yo mom likes that it's easy to get in and out of.
It has some drawbacks that I've found like when am I ever going to get these bugs off my windshield? In an ICE car you pull up, fill up, check oil and clean windshield weekly, now I just drive by.
But seriously, WTF is with this dash? It's laid out so bad, who cares what direction I'm going or what my tire pressures are. Dead center is a bunch of unnecessary crap information, the speedo is hidden under my hand. Move your steering wheel people say, I say **** that, I want my hand where they're comfortable. Even if I move my steering wheel I'm still playing peekaboo with the speedometer.
If you don't have your key fob you can't lock your doors. It auto unlocks but doesn't auto lock, very often I'll notice my door handles sticking out but unless I'm packing my fob I can't do anything about it. I live on a steep bank below the road so I've got to go down 3 flights of stairs to get my fob. It gets old fast.
Cruise control is trash. I like to set my cruise as a minimum speed then drive my pedal above that. That works on every other car in the world but nope not this one. If you're touching your pedal you'll go as slow as the pedal amount you're giving it until you take your foot off entirely then it speeds up to the set point.
I hate the headrests. I like to sit fairly upright but when I do the headrest pushes my head forward. On long trips I usually take it out and throw it on the floor. I tried turning it backwards but it doesn't work.
The steering wheel buttons, they're just bad. I jump in a rental car from any other manufacturer and in minutes I've got all the buttons figured out. These are non intuitive, musta been the same guy laid these out as designed the dash.
I love this car. It's quiet, it's really solid in the corners, it's comfortable and it moves like a mofo when you tell it to. It's big and roomy, I can stick a mountain bike, a cello, a cat in a box, 2 golden retriever sized dogs, a couple weekend bags and some groceries in it without playing tetris. It's got good range, I often see it telling me there are about 420km in the tank, my wife often sees 500km, it knows how I drive. It must differentiate us by fob. The seating is not too high or too low, my 80yo mom likes that it's easy to get in and out of.
It has some drawbacks that I've found like when am I ever going to get these bugs off my windshield? In an ICE car you pull up, fill up, check oil and clean windshield weekly, now I just drive by.
But seriously, WTF is with this dash? It's laid out so bad, who cares what direction I'm going or what my tire pressures are. Dead center is a bunch of unnecessary crap information, the speedo is hidden under my hand. Move your steering wheel people say, I say **** that, I want my hand where they're comfortable. Even if I move my steering wheel I'm still playing peekaboo with the speedometer.
If you don't have your key fob you can't lock your doors. It auto unlocks but doesn't auto lock, very often I'll notice my door handles sticking out but unless I'm packing my fob I can't do anything about it. I live on a steep bank below the road so I've got to go down 3 flights of stairs to get my fob. It gets old fast.
Cruise control is trash. I like to set my cruise as a minimum speed then drive my pedal above that. That works on every other car in the world but nope not this one. If you're touching your pedal you'll go as slow as the pedal amount you're giving it until you take your foot off entirely then it speeds up to the set point.
I hate the headrests. I like to sit fairly upright but when I do the headrest pushes my head forward. On long trips I usually take it out and throw it on the floor. I tried turning it backwards but it doesn't work.
The steering wheel buttons, they're just bad. I jump in a rental car from any other manufacturer and in minutes I've got all the buttons figured out. These are non intuitive, musta been the same guy laid these out as designed the dash.
