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Probably the most irritating car I’ve ever driven ! Fortunately it was only for a recent 4-day rental in Canberra. - This car has been fitted with… Read more

the most ridiculous cameras and screens in place of standard wing mirrors ! I found this system to be quite distracting and very dangerous - after driving for ~50 years I found it very difficult to adjust my line of sight from the position that wing mirror are normally situated, and usually looked at the camera (instead of the screen) when I wanted to change lanes etc, so I had to quickly adjust to the small internal screens (on both sides of the car) instead of looking at regular wing mirrors! What is the point of this “upgrade” ?? See Photo #1.  - The tyre pressure alarm can’t be reset ! This alarm came on, despite the recommended tyre pressures being 33psi - and then a flashing alarm on the dashboard remained on even when all tyres had been pumped up to same value ! It did eventually turn off though. See Photo #2.  - Start/Stop button - why is this necessary ? Just getting into the car and turning the drive mode knob into D or R position should be sufficient to “activate” the car, and exiting the car via the driver’s door should be enough to deactivate it. To be honest, remembering to “Stop” the car before exiting it was more irritating as it was easy to forget to press this (useless, in my opinion) button before exiting from the car.

- The car won’t actually move if the Start button is pressed more than 30 seconds before moving the car, eg, while setting up trip navigation, etc. I had to turn off the car and then restart it - which occasionally meant I lost the directions I’d put in anyway !

- Constant binging & bonging sound alarms ! There seem to be alarms for everything which, to be honest, are so prevalent that they soon become ignored - which is just as dangerous as not having them at all ! Need to be more selective about this, and be able to be deactivated easily.

- My iPhone 13 connected to Apple CarPlay OK but my wife’s iPhone 15 didn’t !

- Must press the car unlock key to disconnect the charging cable from the car ! This wasn’t very obvious, it took me a while to work out how to remove the car charger after charging from a 240 volt, 10 amp power point.

- The fast (ie, >10 amp) charging cable adapter, which was supplied with the car, duplicates the plug which goes into car so is completely useless - require male & female plugs. Most charging stations now require you to bring your own charging cables ! So what is this “adapter” used for ? See Photo #3 for Cable (with adapter connected) As Supplied (both “female” plugs); See Photo #4 for Cable Actually Required (not supplied with this car) - The “male” plug on the right-hand side of this photo goes into the commercial charging station, the “female” plug on the left goes into the car.