We stopped while in richmond for one of our weekly appointments and looked at an 18.
Our local dealer is flat terrible, and the saddest part is Ive been going there for VW service for 7 years. I'll never go back. They are 40 minutes away. The next closest dealer is an hour and 15 mins. Beyond that everything is 1.5-2 hours up the road.
We were actually on their lot on Saturday, and walked out due to poor service. Sad.
We didnt drive it. Did not have time.
Pros -
Looked nice in black.
Interesting seating arrangement (couldn't test for comfort - not really enough time but seemed OK) Nice field of view, nice displays and driver interface. No blind spots.
Roomy. (crosstrek way too small for our main vehicle)
LED are a nice upgrade (we saw a limited)
The whole 18 upgrade in interior materials is a big change from the 17, imo. Especially coming from german cars.
Cons-
HK audio sounded like complete hot garbage. Maybe It needed the eq adjusted. It was on XM. The fender in my VW sounds much better. Maybe it didnt get a fair shake.
Doors felt thin. The door trim seemed to move a lot when I pulled the door closed. You pull on the handle and the whole panel moves? It didn't seem solid at all. Wife gave me a 'WTF is this?' look. Our last 4 cars have been German. Is this a Jap thing? Body panels also seem to be thinner and the car overall is more 'tinny'? Not severely, but the door thing.....
Dealer network. The next closest dealer is over an hour away. We were treated so poorly at Casey, we will never go back for anything. In fact I likely wont turn in my TDi there now either. This makes service a problem. It also makes actually finding the time to test drive one, and even an over night test a problem. It might actually end up even being a deciding factor to us, unfortunately. Its proven very time consuming to even get to look at one of these. Let alone get one serviced if there is a warranty issue, etc.
Right now the main comparison for us is the Grand Cherokee. I dont even know what else to look at. I need something that will handle beach sand on the outer banks and assateague, that isn't garbage or over priced, and doesnt drink fuel like it's water. It also needs to be a solid DD and hold up to as much as 25-30K miles a year until we get a second car in 2 years.
I despise car shopping. :|
Our local dealer is flat terrible, and the saddest part is Ive been going there for VW service for 7 years. I'll never go back. They are 40 minutes away. The next closest dealer is an hour and 15 mins. Beyond that everything is 1.5-2 hours up the road.
We were actually on their lot on Saturday, and walked out due to poor service. Sad.
We didnt drive it. Did not have time.
Pros -
Looked nice in black.
Interesting seating arrangement (couldn't test for comfort - not really enough time but seemed OK) Nice field of view, nice displays and driver interface. No blind spots.
Roomy. (crosstrek way too small for our main vehicle)
LED are a nice upgrade (we saw a limited)
The whole 18 upgrade in interior materials is a big change from the 17, imo. Especially coming from german cars.
Cons-
HK audio sounded like complete hot garbage. Maybe It needed the eq adjusted. It was on XM. The fender in my VW sounds much better. Maybe it didnt get a fair shake.
Doors felt thin. The door trim seemed to move a lot when I pulled the door closed. You pull on the handle and the whole panel moves? It didn't seem solid at all. Wife gave me a 'WTF is this?' look. Our last 4 cars have been German. Is this a Jap thing? Body panels also seem to be thinner and the car overall is more 'tinny'? Not severely, but the door thing.....
Dealer network. The next closest dealer is over an hour away. We were treated so poorly at Casey, we will never go back for anything. In fact I likely wont turn in my TDi there now either. This makes service a problem. It also makes actually finding the time to test drive one, and even an over night test a problem. It might actually end up even being a deciding factor to us, unfortunately. Its proven very time consuming to even get to look at one of these. Let alone get one serviced if there is a warranty issue, etc.
Right now the main comparison for us is the Grand Cherokee. I dont even know what else to look at. I need something that will handle beach sand on the outer banks and assateague, that isn't garbage or over priced, and doesnt drink fuel like it's water. It also needs to be a solid DD and hold up to as much as 25-30K miles a year until we get a second car in 2 years.
I despise car shopping. :|