Been driving around in this with a stupid grin since 25th Nov. I too went for the parking pack. The Park assist and rear camera are a godsend. The Adaptive cruise is wonderful too. Sport Mode is fun but it can be a bit too eager with the up and down shifts sometimes but I like some of the aspects, must set up an individual profile.
Wheelchair wise - I too am only an occasional user and mine is dead easy to fold up and remove arms and foot plates. I usually only have it out when I have someone to push me anyway
The astra was a nice car, this is on a different planet.
I did, rather embarrasingly not realise the CD player was in the glovebox so after about two weeks I went back to the dealer and queried.... but that was only after I had bought a cd for the first time in 5 years lol. "We get this a lot" was the audio technician's response as he showed me. Ironically after I had the SD card out the nav and back in for the November map update.
It is deceptively quick overtaking - effortless mid-range thump. Try not to clog too hard before the oil has warmed up, otherwise I drive it reasonably gently but not like a nun either and I already get more on my third tank of fuel between fills than I did with the Astra at 20000 miles and 5 years.
If not in "Sport mode" (extra rumble) it is also scarily easy to make the world go backwards in your rear-view mirror a lot quicker than you realise.
I use the cruise a lot *cough*.
Got my phone paired but noticed album art doesnt come through on Bluetooth Audio, but it does fine when the Phone is plugged in via usb. I am on a Galaxy S7 Edge with the standard phone connection package.
I have also registered and set up carnet but have no Idea how to make it work properly, I have 3 buttons in the app and thats it....
Also noticed that the wing mirror "look down" is not working when selecting reverse. It is ticked in the options menu, and the 3Door GTD I test drove had it working so I guess thats a calibration thing...
General Observations after 5 weeks...
Smaller, prettier, lighter, quicker and easier to manoevre than the Astra. Only downside is that I seem to attract the attention of numpties who think it is fun to try and goad me on M/ways and dual carriageways. this was never an issue in the Astra.
I have bought a dashcam, This was a wise choice.
Cut up by a lorry coming off a roundabout into a 50 dual carriage way average speed zone. I get to 50 quicker than him and pull in quite a way in front. He closes the gap to about 10 feet and sits on my bottom to try and barge me out of the way, then overtakes me, slowly (I maintain 50). I stayed with the cruise on minding my own business and catch him at the end of the 50 a few miles up the road where it opens up to a 70 de-restricted where he seems to be trying to overtake the world at 60 MPH.
Then theres the BMW drivers who zoom up behind you on the dual carriageway and sulkily sit an inch from your boot, so you move to the inside and even slow down to let them overtake. But they dont, they pull in behind you and still remain surgically attatched. So you lower your speed a bit more, 65- 60-55 bmw matches you. The carriageway straightens and there are no cars around I'm still doing 55-60 in a 70 with this idiot on my tail in the inside (left) lane. By this point I'd had 10 minutes of this crap and was getting v-fed up, so I reached for the - paddle on the wheel and stretched my right leg a bit
. He went rapidly backwards and I popped the cruise on at 70. A mile later he is doing much more than that in the outside lane and zooming off into the distance. *shrugs*
Anyway, as you can tell I think my new car is awful
I hate driving it so much I ticked over the 1000 mile mark on my way home after Christmas/New Year down at my parents.