I recently purchased the 1.8L self-charging version of this car, and overall, it's been a positive experience. It's incredibly comfortable to drive, and after a month of use, I've been pleasantly surprised to average around 60 miles per gallon (UK). However, it's far from perfect. For starters, syncing trip data to the app requires you have to be stationary in park and click the privacy screen three times, otherwise, the trip data gets lost! The motor that drives the wipers are super noisy (as is the boot opening and closing), and the rear screen tends to fog up easily, which can be frustrating, especially considering there's no rear wiper. We've had so much rain in the UK lately, yes it does need a rear wiper! Visibility out of the rear is rather limited, and the reversing camera's in the design spec has poor resolution nothing better than my previous Juke (marginally better than a Nokia phone though). Another annoyance is the constant beeping - whether it's for going just a mile over the speed limit or changing speed zones, the alerts can get a bit excessive. The major crash alert has come on a couple of times, when there's no way I was going to crash - just driving normally during busy school runs. There's quite a few other minor annoyances. Sometimes randomly the alarm sounds for 5 seconds when locking the car. Every other drive it sends the app an alert to check the rear seats and if you turn off the alerts for those darn bleeps, it's reset the next time you start the car. When reversing, the screen does not always show the radar when approaching objects you could hit. There's many software bugs to fix in a car loaded with tech. The roads are so bad in the UK right now, occuasionally you have to drive more towards the middle of the road to avoid the potholes. However, the lane assist trys to nudge you back, but rather towards the right, not the left- almost like the correction software is written for Europe and not adapted to the UK! When a couple of passengers are in the rear, the 1.8L engine feels like it struggles and boy does it growl, like a Ferrari. Other than that the 1.8 engine is fine esp in busy town driving. If you're 6ft or over - you'll really struggle to fit in the back and the rear windows are really tiny. Specific to the design spec, the sounds system is disappointing (5/10) but updraging to the Excel or GR pushes towards and over £40K which is ridiclous for this car. In the UK Honda are offering 5 years breakdown, 5 years servicing, 5 years warrently included where as with Toyota you only get 1 years breakdown, 3 years manufactors warrenty. The 10 year extended warrenty is only free if you service from year 3 onwards at Toyota at a costs of currently £500 per service which is 2x as much as local garages charge. Bit of a scam especially given the 10 year warrently is not as comprehensive as the first 3!
Interesting, especially all the annoying warnings (seems to be a common theme on many high tech cars). The lack of rear wiper could be a nuisance in certain conditions (drizzle/dirty winter roads). Didn't realize the servicing costs were so high. Those Honda inclusive items look attractive. The more I look at new vehicles, associated high costs, compromise in rear/boot space, the more I am inclined to keep my existing (ten year old) car a bit longer!
As for the video and comments, too many flaws for such high prices... Waiting to see if the announced MG hybrid unit can take Toyota out of this (temporary?) insanity.
I have the GR, no complaining at all, love it
Job well done 👍 😊
Lovely looking car, but the price has gone crazy high! 😮
I recently purchased the 1.8L self-charging version of this car, and overall, it's been a positive experience. It's incredibly comfortable to drive, and after a month of use, I've been pleasantly surprised to average around 60 miles per gallon (UK). However, it's far from perfect.
For starters, syncing trip data to the app requires you have to be stationary in park and click the privacy screen three times, otherwise, the trip data gets lost! The motor that drives the wipers are super noisy (as is the boot opening and closing), and the rear screen tends to fog up easily, which can be frustrating, especially considering there's no rear wiper. We've had so much rain in the UK lately, yes it does need a rear wiper!
Visibility out of the rear is rather limited, and the reversing camera's in the design spec has poor resolution nothing better than my previous Juke (marginally better than a Nokia phone though). Another annoyance is the constant beeping - whether it's for going just a mile over the speed limit or changing speed zones, the alerts can get a bit excessive. The major crash alert has come on a couple of times, when there's no way I was going to crash - just driving normally during busy school runs.
There's quite a few other minor annoyances. Sometimes randomly the alarm sounds for 5 seconds when locking the car. Every other drive it sends the app an alert to check the rear seats and if you turn off the alerts for those darn bleeps, it's reset the next time you start the car. When reversing, the screen does not always show the radar when approaching objects you could hit. There's many software bugs to fix in a car loaded with tech.
The roads are so bad in the UK right now, occuasionally you have to drive more towards the middle of the road to avoid the potholes. However, the lane assist trys to nudge you back, but rather towards the right, not the left- almost like the correction software is written for Europe and not adapted to the UK!
When a couple of passengers are in the rear, the 1.8L engine feels like it struggles and boy does it growl, like a Ferrari. Other than that the 1.8 engine is fine esp in busy town driving. If you're 6ft or over - you'll really struggle to fit in the back and the rear windows are really tiny.
Specific to the design spec, the sounds system is disappointing (5/10) but updraging to the Excel or GR pushes towards and over £40K which is ridiclous for this car. In the UK Honda are offering 5 years breakdown, 5 years servicing, 5 years warrently included where as with Toyota you only get 1 years breakdown, 3 years manufactors warrenty. The 10 year extended warrenty is only free if you service from year 3 onwards at Toyota at a costs of currently £500 per service which is 2x as much as local garages charge. Bit of a scam especially given the 10 year warrently is not as comprehensive as the first 3!
Interesting, especially all the annoying warnings (seems to be a common theme on many high tech cars). The lack of rear wiper could be a nuisance in certain conditions (drizzle/dirty winter roads). Didn't realize the servicing costs were so high. Those Honda inclusive items look attractive. The more I look at new vehicles, associated high costs, compromise in rear/boot space, the more I am inclined to keep my existing (ten year old) car a bit longer!
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hate the black bottom … may be dangerous as well, less visible
Colour code?
As for the video and comments, too many flaws for such high prices... Waiting to see if the announced MG hybrid unit can take Toyota out of this (temporary?) insanity.
Once I heard the price, then there was no point in watching the rest of the video.
hybrid
Far to expensive