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the pole star 2 is so good that I nearly bought one is a phrase that I've heard a

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lot this week but uh no one actually did buy one they all ended up buying Teslas

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or BMWs or golfs or whatever but it is

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actually really good so let's have a look at why the poar 2's always been the

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bridesmaid and never actually the bride starting with the looks I think the

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polstar 2 looks absolutely fantastic but uh no one else seems to care I have not

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felt as Anonymous in a car since the bolt euv and that is saying something

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moving around to the side we have got proper summer Tires thank you so much

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guys and with the performance pack these big old brambo brakes which I have not

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really been able to experience on the road but I imagine they will rip your

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face off around the side we've got a door handles which shouldn't be a

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feature but electric cars for whatever reason it is and also the locks are

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super fast so listen to this it's great you can just get in and

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out and it's no problem also this being a Volvo not Volvo product we have their

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frameless mirrors which look fantastic and also their Auto dimming which is

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it's one of those fancy car features that oh love it one electric car thing

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that we do get though is a frunk pop it

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up

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there do you want to do that faster or no uh I can't in the frun we also have a

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good bit of room so we've got our Jack here for when you want to adjust your

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dampers and also your AC charging cable it's all pretty decent but because you

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have to use the hood latch thing you're uh you're never going to use it realistically this is an electric

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vehicle and they let you know with this cheesy ass sticker that I would 100%

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take off it's a 78 KW hour battery which

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is good for 418 km of range with the

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spec that we have here the charging ports right here and it does support up

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to 150 KW DC fast charging which is not

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quite as fast as some of the other vehicles that we've seen But the area

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under the charging curve is really quite good so you get 150 Kow for most of it

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instead of the some where it's like 300 nothing around back we have the absolute

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best kick sensor that I've ever had in a car like everything else I've just ended

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up using a little button there is one down here but this one man it just works

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fantastic also Power Lift power close

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really great all right stop stop I want to show them the trunk stop ha it did it

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oh look at that oh

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no that's kind of impressive stop way though that's pretty cool in the trunk

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we have a surprising amount of room you've got the lift back so it's easy to get stuff in and out and we not only

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have this space right here but underneath there's also quite a bit of

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space which is a welcome little surprise and we have the Volvo signature little

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grocery rack hopping into the back seat it's acceptable I have about uh two mm

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maybe of head clearance and a little bit

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of room here behind the driver's seat it's adequate but not amazing we do have

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the optional heated rear seats back here and overall it's um it's a fine spot to

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be it's like you can throw people back there but it's definitely not an

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executive spot hopping into the driver's seat this is where the problems start

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now the seats themselves are very comfortable they're cloth and a turns

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out on a hot day they show your sweat that's pretty gross but they are very

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comfortable we have plenty of adjustment and they do hold you in nice and tight

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when you're going around corner Corners problem is I can't get comfortable in

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here like not at all I want to be something like four 6 in further back

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around here-ish but then I don't have an armrest for my left ARM this door is

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just way too short and they haven't extended this out onto the B pillar like

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some other cars confound that problem once I have moved up here and my legs

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are not as comfy as they would like to be this is terrible guys what the like

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actually this is not a cheap car well it's just one of the worst armrests I

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felt you can get a base Corolla and it is more comfortable than this like not

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only is the material really harsh but also there's like basically zero padding

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so it's just my elbow it actually hurts all the time and I finish my drives in

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this sore because I it's so strange the way that you have to contort yourself on

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top of that the right hand side is also very bad it's fine if you don't want to

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have a cup holder just just right here pretty good this right here has a nice

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squishy material that I really wish they used on the door guys if you want to

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have a cup you need to move it back like that which means that your right armrest

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is way further back than your left armrest so you're kind of

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like the whole time and it's quite uncomfortable on top of that the little

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edge here is very hard like all of this

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nice and Squishy love it the very front where when it's back where your armr

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sucks what's even worse say you want to have two cups in here which I think is

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pretty reasonable given like you know there's two seats you might have two

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people up here look at

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this wow that's so good I love that why

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have storage in the center console when you can have your second cup holder and

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you just have to Yeet the armrest in the back that is terrible guys this is a

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lotus and I think even lotuses they fixed that overall the storage in here

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just feels not very well thought out and generally you have a spot up here to put

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your phone which is fine enough I guess there's a little sunglasses holder on

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both sides even though it doesn't actually close and there's not enough

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room for a water bottle in the door so I don't know don't bring stuff in

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here put it in the trunk is the glove box at least decent oh yeah it's a real

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glove box the left armrest aside the materials in here are quite nice it

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isn't like luxurious sort of materials

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like it's not all leather and stuff but it all does feel

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really quite good and I think looks pretty fantastic right around the gear

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lever bunch of piano black on the controls on the steering wheel piano

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black pstar has thought of this though and they have very kindly given us a

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little cloth now I get to have 3 and 1

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half seconds of no fingerprints on my steering wheel for infotainment this all

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is pretty good we've got the nice big touchcreen here and even though we don't

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have like physical controls for things like climate this is one of the better

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mations that I have seen it's all pretty easy the stuff that he wants down at the

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bottom and overall it works pretty well

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now for this car we have Android automotive which is not Android auto and

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this one right here it's uh yeah polstar were actually the first ones to have

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that and uh it shows I don't think they've updated it since then compared

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to the lyric that we had last week this is Generations or Os revisions behind

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them for sure I really hope when like the postar 3 releases this will get a

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nice big update but then again that's already been pushed back so I don't know

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when you'll get some love postar 2 owners overall it is pretty good like it

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isn't awful like what BMW has but I do

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wish that they had at least included Android auto that has been updated since

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then and well they do have apple carplay so I really do not understand why they

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do not have Android auto one kind of silly thing we uh got the panoramic

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sunroof with which first of all doesn't have a sun shade but it does have a

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postar logo that lights up cool I guess

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postar we at least nice enough to give us a physical volume knob even if it is

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kind of hard to reach around the gear lever speaking of which Let's uh put it

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along here the 360 camera is pretty good

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not the best I've seen but more than serviceable and that's not what you care

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about because we have the performance pack this has 476 horsepower 52 ftlb of

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torque and a 0 to 60 of 4.2 seconds this

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thing is proper quick and like that launch was pretty violent but it is

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nowhere near the kind of just the absolute knockback that this

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thing has when you step on the pedal this has some of the best throttle

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response that I've ever seen seen in EV

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like oh a lot of EVS will kind of just

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push you back into the chair rapidly

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this right here oh is violent in the way

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that it shoves you back in a way that only like the taian and the BMW have

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replicated everything else like you know a Tesla it pushes you back I haven't

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been in a plaid maybe that's as bad but this right here oh that initial come on

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is just just insane this is a very very good package

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like nothing else has the kind of confidence in a corner that this right

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here has like this thing's 4,800 lb and

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I can just send it into corners and not

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be concerned about either killing myself or just being really bored like I might

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be in you know most Teslas now there are

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heaps of cars on the market that have adjustable dampers my golf to adjust the

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dampers in my golf I press mode go to the menu sport wow now they're stiffer

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Comfort now they're more comfy that's it

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on the P star 2 it's a little bit more complicated on the front it's not too

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bad so there's a little dial down here uh just need to turn the tire all the

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way over right under like this so I want

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turn it clockwise eight times probably if it's at its normal setting now we

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have adjustments from zero to 20 with zero being the firmest and 20 being the

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most comfortable so we're going to just whack it all the way to the most comfortable see how it feels for the

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rear it's a little bit more complicated so you need to get out your jack we're

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not actually lifting the car up we just need a little bit more space around the

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tire now we need to remove the wheel well liner so that we can get at the top

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of the strut Tower you only need a 10 mil to do this so if yours is gone I

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don't know you're hooped but we just need seven of these guys to come

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off and once we're in here we need to take off the little rubber chummy on top

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all right got it set back to zero now we count up to

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20 with the Comfort setting pull star does say that your cornering will be

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compromised let's see if they're correct

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that still pretty freaking good like you can definitely tell that you can't turn

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in as sharp but if you're using this thing just like on normal roads

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man that still handle really really really well all right let's find a bumpy

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section I can already tell that it's way more compliant this is heaps better oh

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this is very reasonable ah this is great all right so now we have suspension

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that's compliant enough for daily driving but the handling is still

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absolutely excellent and if you do want to track this thing or you know that

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you're going to go on like a big windy road trip down to Crows Nest or

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something you can stiffen her up a bit and be very happy I would say this is a

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success

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one thing softening your dampers can also do that might not be as obvious is

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affect your acceleration cuz you know your squats down it's just loading the

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suspension instead of loading the tires let's see here oh nope it's still brutal

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since we did adjust the dampers when you're putting along it is very

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comfortable in here and it's relatively

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quiet it isn't quite the level of refinement that you would find in like

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the ionic 6 or the lyric or well most

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electric cars but it is overall pretty good and none of those have the level of

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performance that this thing has like not even close this being you know n a Volvo

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has all of their safety features so we have pretty decent adaptive Crews and

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Lane centering it's not industry-leading like it isn't as good as the stuff that

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you'll find from like GM or hyday or

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Lexus or it's not great but it's way better than not having it for sure it

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even does pretty decent start and stop even though if I'm coming up behind a

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vehicle I'm not going to trust it to Slow Me Down in time like I did in the

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lyric what's also pretty decent is the sound system play crab Rave please sign

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the Spotify app with oh you piece of play crab rave on title voice actions

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aren't available for that app it fing is

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this isn't a this car problem this is a title problem oh wow I can just use the

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whole menu here while I'm driving that's a half a questionable one but I

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appreciate it in this one we have the Harmon Card and sound system and it's

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good

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enough who cares about that though we've got some Corners

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corner I have not just thrashed a press

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car like this one for a good long time like actually I don't even think ever

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like the tie can even though that was heaps of fun on public Road you can you

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cannot get into that you will either go to jail or go to just being deleted off

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the face of the Earth very very fast whereas this right here it's more of

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like uh you can have some fun but you don't have to worry about you know the

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back coming out and getting wrapped around a pole or going 160 km per hour

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in a second and getting wrapped around a pole or like just it it's it's great

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this right here it's the pole star it's not the pole The Hitter from the factory

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we got well uh way too much base and not enough treble but they give us a proper

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EQ so we were able to tweak it to where we actually quite like the sound with

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this right here I do see why they have a bit less trouble because uh it is a bit

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showy at times in certain songs but overall I like these settings much more

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than the default ones thank you so much for including a proper equalizer I

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really really do like this thing and it's just so sad the stuff that they

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have not quite gotten right because it seems like things that would be really

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really easy to fix I really want to just buy one and throw in first of all a bit

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of sound deing like this thing's already 4,800 lb 100 lb of sound deadening is

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going to be pretty nice day a day if I own this car I would remove all of this

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material put better foam underneath it Stitch it back up and probably just be a

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much happier camper or uh I don't know I

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probably just wouldn't buy one guys for the 2024 please fix the ergonomics for the

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driver like I get that there's probably batteries or some crap in the center

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console area here but like if this was an ergonomic car to sit in I would very

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seriously consider buying one but instead this thing's 77 Grand Canadian

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with all of the stuff that we have in it maybe it'll just be one of those people

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that said they'll buy one and don't get subscribed and maybe go and I don't know

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adjust your dampers stick your hand in a wheel weld or something have a great day