Russell13 said:
In the main many of the observations appear rather trivial or at odds. Heavy? but delivers potential 60.1 mpg. Poor ride at low speeds...well on low profile tyres on 21 inch rims....etc
Fair to say, press reviews have never yet influenced my
'actual' final buying decisions. I always make up my own mind anyway, rather than rely on reviewer's opinions. But, professional opinions aside, the basic facts do not look to be helping much with this car. Incidentally, I would take the quoted 60.1mpg figure with a pinch of salt, it will never be achieved, real world, in fact unlikely to even get close to that. And the ride will be more governed by the suspension set-up than the rim/tyre sizes. In practice I did not find that much difference in the quality of the ride on the F-Pace between the different wheel sizes, so it's unlikely there will be much of a difference for the cub either.
It will be interesting when the dealers get their demo cars for us to try out for ourselves. I'm still keeping as open a mind as possible, but I definitely have some reservations based on the physical aspects of the design . . and, subjectively, I find I'm struggling to fall head-over-heels in love with the look of the front of the car, the headlights just don't look quite right to my eye and the lower 'air intakes' look somehow disproportionately large, maybe too high. Maybe that's just because I'm very used to the proportions of the F-Pace though, which just seems more visually 'balanced' to me.
Anyway, whatever happens, at least it seems to have got a conversation thread started on here . . keep your thoughts coming everyone
