09-26-2005, 03:47 PM
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Junkie
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[QUOTE=Salomon]Thanks guys. I've put about 800 miles on the car so far.
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Originally Posted by Salomon
-Fuel Economy. Average at best. Getting around 16-17 city.
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Yes, thirsty car. But those horsepower have to come from somewhere, and that somewhere is gasoline. 4 valves per cylinder, double overhead cams, etc. And I drive the hell out of mine, you probably do too.
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-Orange colored instrumentation. Ugly. White would have been fine, thanks. They should take a page from Ford and allow you to adjust it in over 100 different colors.
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Haven't seen the ford stuff, but I like my gages and get plenty of compliments on them too.
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-Road Feel. Doesn't have much. Numb and isolated feel, as opposed to Audi's superb 'organic' feel; the saving grace being that it is at least tight and direct.
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No comment on this really.
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ManuMatic: I leave it in Auto mostly. Shifts are soft as cotton. I like how it revs the engine to match downshifts though.
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"Cotton shifts". That's what mine was originally doing and it DROVE ME NUTS. I called it "grandpa transmission" The sales rep assured me that the transmission would adjust to my driving style. I thought he was full of shit.
It's called "Adaptive Transmission"
Then one day, around 6,000 km or so, it did. I was shocked, it was like, "hey, that shifted pretty nice" Then it did it again.
Now the thing shifts like a dream. I love it. If anything, sometimes it holds the gear and won't let go. It's like a completely different car. It was programmed into grandpa mode to start with, then adapted to crazy mode for me.
Give it a while, if you drive like I do, you will see. If I didn't see it for myself, I wouldna believed it.
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-Highway Noise. Relatively noisy at speed due to its ridiculously low gearing. It is very quiet at less than highway speeds.
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Agree, it needs a 6'th gear at a ratio of about 0.67:1
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-Center console. Has a drab, meh look to it. Too much Nissan, not enough Infiniti. (see: M35/45)
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I see your point. My beef is with the layout of where the "snow mode" switch is. Stooo-pid. And the VDC / Trunk / Dash light switches.
To me, the Snow switch should be where the hazard switch is.
The two buttons for the radio are basically useless - Disp, and whatever else. I never use them.
The CD / Radio switches should be part of the radio and the space they currently occupy should be where they put the hazard / VDC / Trunk switches IMHO.
Also, the location of the side mirror adjust switch is STOOPID. Just put it on the driver's arm rest like every other car in the world.
My big beef though is the snow mode switch location. DUMB
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-TINY glovebox. Room for the manual (barely) and thats it.
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You do realize that there are two glove boxes right? One almost invisible one right on top of the main one blending into the radius of the dash. I cram my owners manual in the invisible one and use the other one for other stuff.
I know this because for the first couple of weeks, I didn't realize that there were 2 glove boxes, then i was poking arouund the passanger side and I was like, "what the hell is that". Push the button and low and behold it's a second glove box. Who knew?
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-No Digital Clock (except a small one on the Nav screen). The fancy analog clock sucks. Unintelligible markings.
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Here we disagree, I love the analog clock.
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-Brake Dust. A LOT of front brake dust = constantly blackened wheels.
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Yes, soft pads = great braking = lots of dust. Expect lots of brake jobs. Fortunately, I can fix that myself.
Last edited by james t kirk; 09-26-2005 at 03:59 PM..
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