New SUV at +-R400K

[Brenden_E]

Went for test drives and looked at all the options yesterday, and now she's getting a BMW 2 series convertible. Haha, fuuuuuu...

 

[Brenden_E]

In case anyone is wondering about the Mazda. Test drove the CX-5 auto 2L and it everything about the car was brilliant. Almost perfect. The gearbox though. Son! It was atrociously bad, I don't know how you can overtake with confidence.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Went for test drives and looked at all the options yesterday, and now she's getting a BMW 2 series convertible. Haha, fuuuuuu...

Super practical for all the plants and stuff.

In case anyone is wondering about the Mazda. Test drove the CX-5 auto 2L and it everything about the car was brilliant. Almost perfect. The gearbox though. Son! It was atrociously bad, I don't know how you can overtake with confidence.

Noooo, don't say that. I was looking at one for a potential future vehicle.

 

[Brenden_E]

Super practical for all the plants and stuff.



Noooo, don't say that. I was looking at one for a potential future vehicle.

I have learned to just get what makes her happy. We have the Bakkie so guess I can cart things around if need be.
Try the manual, perhaps it's better. Apart from that auto gearbox I thought the car was miles ahead of the competition.

 

[Brenden_E]

Read a few reviews and lots of people seem to love the gearbox :O
Maybe it's just me that's used to manual. My issue was, I floored the car, it went to 4.5K RPM and there's was a delay before actually accelerating significantly. Of course, I'm comparing to my usual manual drive.

Also I was going up a slight uphill at 80km/h, pressed quite hard on the gas and it didn't go. Sloowly accelerated in lowish RPMs. The salesman did play around with a sport function but I still felt it was not doing what I would expect of it.

 

[SmartKit]

Please tell me what is "bare bones" about the Forester. Have you even seen the latest one?

What amazes me is that most of the anti Forester crowd still think that it hasn't changed since 2007.

Haha, Fazda. I was actually going to come to you for a test drive!

The biggest issue was that unless I paid through the nose I'd get a rather sluggish minimalistic vehicle. I'm sure in this day and age there are plenty of gadgets, especially if you're willing to pay more.

What I want to know is how, in a country where two thirds of sales are at high altitude, can you only sell a turbo as your top of the range vehicle? Unless I pay over half a bar I'm going to get a vehicle essentially rated closer to 100kW.

So perhaps great for you guys in Durbs, and some great driving features, but at R540k I had to look at alternatives.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

I have learned to just get what makes her happy. We have the Bakkie so guess I can cart things around if need be.
Try the manual, perhaps it's better. Apart from that auto gearbox I thought the car was miles ahead of the competition.

Read a few reviews and lots of people seem to love the gearbox :O
Maybe it's just me that's used to manual. My issue was, I floored the car, it went to 4.5K RPM and there's was a delay before actually accelerating significantly. Of course, I'm comparing to my usual manual drive.

Also I was going up a slight uphill at 80km/h, pressed quite hard on the gas and it didn't go. Sloowly accelerated in lowish RPMs. The salesman did play around with a sport function but I still felt it was not doing what I would expect of it.

Very much doubt I'll touch a manual car again.

I've kind of made peace with the fact that these kinds of cars' boxes won't come near the German dual-clutch ones, though.

Did you test the petrol or diesel?

 

[Brenden_E]

Very much doubt I'll touch a manual car again.

I've kind of made peace with the fact that these kinds of cars' boxes won't come near the German dual-clutch ones, though.

Did you test the petrol or diesel?

2L Petrol