If you HATE driving... get this! - Audi e-tron Sportback
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·ShortCircuit
·2022-05-05
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2,785 words · ~13 min read
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- Today we have the Audi e-tron Sportback. And the first thing about this thing,
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Oh my God it's massive, look at this. (upbeat music)
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I thought it was kind of just like a wagon, but no it is proper big.
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Now you can get the SUV version and that's comes, you know,
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it's higher in the back, it gives you a bit more room, but the Sports back, it drops down
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and I think it looks fantastic. Now you do get looks in this car,
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but not by you'd expect in the Porsche everyone looks at it
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everyone loves it in my like fun colored golf. Kids think it's awesome.
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And this right here, it's like retired women that are rich.
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They see this thing go past and they're like, yeah, I can dig that. If you want to set some Cougar traps,
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this is the car to have, it says a ground up electric SUV, but there are a lot of like electric car things that it just
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doesn't really have. So right here, you can have another charging port on this side.
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We'll come around, come on, Andy, you have your charging port on this side,
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this right here gets you 150 kilowatts of charging.
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Given the battery's massive, it still does take some time to give it all the juice.
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But if you have a charger at your house, you're going to be fine. 350 kilometers of range.
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That's like really quite good. Normally an electric car when you get in, you expect to just start.
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Whereas this one you'd have to press the start button and another thing that's kind of weird and old school.
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So you don't get a frunk, instead You get like a half frunk, I guess this is all it is.
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it is where they store Okay, it's fine.
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This is where they store the charging cable. You do get a high voltage one out of the box.
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Very nice. Some of them charge extra for that.
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It just doesn't feel great. Oh, well that doesn't really take away from
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the experience of driving or owning this thing. The side profile here is what you're paying for though.
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Like this swooping back. Well, if you think that model X's are boring,
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this is what you get. All of those do have the gull wing doors. Those are pretty sick,
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different kinds of trade-offs just to give you an idea of how heavy and just generally massive
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this thing is, these are 21 inch rims.
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Look at how much tire there still is here. There's what 265/45
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R 21s. Freaking massive,
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also this paint rate here is 600 bucks. Like I said before,
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you are losing some trunk space by having the sport back, it comes down, it looks sexy,
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but there is still loads of space in here. Like if you want to stash a body.
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Easy, done. No one was suspected either mall bosses.
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Invest in these hopefully have appeal. You still have this on your car, Andy.
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Oh, wow. Look at how shiny that is.
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How long do you think this shiny thing is going to stay shiny, Andy?
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- Anyway. Under the trunk here, you get a spare tire.
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Love to see it, a lot of them only have the repair kits. I'm not a fan. Do have to blow this one up,
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but whatever. And a good bit of space down here for whatever you want.
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I like stuffing frozen goods down there. So it doesn't get hot in the sun,
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or you can get another person in there. You might have chop them up a bit, does this come out?
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What's this? - Wheel locks? Oh yeah, there you go.
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Of course you can also fold the seats down flat.
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I guess you kind of have to go all the way around to do
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that, but it works. popping in the back, this is rather comfortable.
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It's my first time back here, it's quite nice actually. We have the cup holders only small ones though.
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Oops. Did we get dual climate for the back?
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This is the best of your climate control I've ever seen. Yeah, also heated rear seats, very nice.
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Down here, we have two type C ports down at the bottom
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and privacy screens.
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Cool. This of course is where you plan on spending
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most of your time probably heard that there,
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there is enough space for an LTT water bottle to go in the door, but there's no lining inside of it.
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So it rattles around and makes quite a racket. It's annoying. I have felt liners in my goal.
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Why don't they have it here? Come on badge. The level of comfort in here overall is quite good.
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These seats are incredibly comfortable, heated and vented loved the venting very hot here right now.
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My only complaint really is that the armrest on the door here doesn't extend far enough back.
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So I kind of have to bring the seat further forward than I would like so that I can hit this.
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I really wish they had just brought it over onto the B pillar and had just a little bit here as well.
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And then I could be a lot more comfortable.
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Yeah. Tall people problems. My biggest concern about this car was the touchscreen
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down below, and at first it was pretty bad,
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but it turns out that on both of these, they come with haptic feedback enabled,
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turn that off works great. So you can swipe here, do pretty large amounts of temperature in one easy go.
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All of these are pretty clear, easy to see,
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easy to hit while you're driving. I have no real complaints. I'm pretty surprised, honestly.
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How did Porsche screw theirs up so bad guys just steal it from Audi.
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They haven't given you much for buttons in here, but they did give you the ones that are important.
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So you have a volume knob next song, last song.
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And almost most importantly for me, a hard button for enabling and disabling the parking thing.
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So it can be so annoying at times when it just starts
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beeping at you and you're looking at a drive-thru or something you're like, shut up car.
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You can just press that and turn it off. Wicked. Also the 360 camera and the parking stuff
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works really great. Awesome to have in a car that's this big.
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For the steering wheel, it feels really great, but we do have,
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of course the perennial problem of 2021 piano black here,
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it looks disgusting. Well, it looks good for about three and a half minutes,
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and then it looks disgusting. You touch it once, which these are designed to be touched.
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Looks terrible forever. Same with like, I know that this piano black that's here looks really nice
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for the first little bit. Cause it, you know, brings this in the display together,
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but you touch it once you have some dust collect on it. Look at that terrible.
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I'm sorry to sound like a broken record on the piano black, but it is legitimately terrible under the infotainment.
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Like it's a German luxury car. Your first week with this thing, it's going to be terrible.
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It's going to there's so many settings, just settings on settings on settings.
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And you have to figure out which ones you like as for how
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this works. It's actually a Samsung chip, that's powering this pretty fast, no real complaints,
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but the biggest and most bestest thing is you don't get
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wireless Android auto, but you can at least plug your phone in
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and can get wired Android auto. So you do that and you have all of these things here.
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You're never going to touch it again. One mild annoyance that I have is that when you do
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navigation through Android auto, it doesn't pop up on the navigation display up here.
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You have to do that through audio thing, which is bad and worse than Google maps.
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So you're going to only ever use this screen. One thing that's slightly annoying is that there's not
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really good spot in here to put the cable for your phone.
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It doesn't matter if you have an apple because there's a charger and there's wireless apple Car Play,
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but there's a pass through here. You're probably going to keep your phone in the center,
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most of the time. My biggest complaint with this setup though,
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is that you have your cup holders right here and your USB-C
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charging ports right beside it that are angled down.
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So any coffee spills it's going to get in and collect right
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in your charging ports, that'll be fun when those stop working in two years or whatever.
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One more, very small gripe about this area here.
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The 12 volts thing slowly, rotates itself while you drive.
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So it can never be perfectly straight, probably not a deal breaker,
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but if you're Andy, it might be. Although I wouldn't say this interior is striking.
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It is very striking at night. Everything that's here and here and there lights up,
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it looks fantastic. During the daytime that's fine. But every single material around here just feels great.
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This is actually ash, volcano ash. Apparently I liked the look of it now to get in gear,
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you use this little thing here. It actually works quite well. So you pull it all the way back. That's drive,
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push it forward. You hit reverse. And if you are in drive, you can also do a little half forward.
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And that puts you into boost mode. So you normally get 350 horsepower boost mode brings you up
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Driving the E-tron is, well, if you like driving,
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don't get this car. It's not an accelerating drive, but if you don't like driving,
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this is an exceptional machine, the adaptive cruise
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in this is like no other car that I have driven.
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I have had stop and go adaptive cruise before, but I've never trusted it for that last,
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like 15 kilometers to stop. It's just never been quite smooth enough.
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I'm going to do no steering inputs. We're going around this corner.
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It's breaking quite nicely for the people in front of us.
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Come up here. I do need to tell him like where to go.
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And then it just slows us down. That was really good.
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That was the gentlest that a car has ever stopped me before.
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Now, the lane assist also is very good. It's lane centering and it's very easy to turn on and off.
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It's just right on the stock, press the one thing. So you don't have to worry about, you know,
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getting in your way when you're on kind of a tight and
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twisty road. And then you can just turn it on and sort of zone out when
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you're on your commute home. The lane centering in this is also excellent.
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So I'm going to my hands on the wheel, but I'm not turning it. Don't just put an orange on here.
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That's a terrible idea. This thing can't self-drive you need to have
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your inputs on occasion. Now in a lot of cars,
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I screw around with like the different drive modes,
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a whole bunch, and this I've just set it to auto. And I have not worried about it, one bit.
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This is not a sporty car. It's it's a heavy car.
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It's a real chunker. Even though you have the better part of 500 horsepower,
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it's slow. This thing is really slow. Now out of the box,
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this has automatic brake region. It works terrible. I hate it.
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I'm surprised how much I use and like these little floppy panels. So you have two levels.
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One of them's not quite single pedal driving,
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but pretty close. The other one's what I'd say is kind of like manual
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transmission car levels of engine braking. And that's where I left it
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most of the time I asked for the actual driving experience,
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it's
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pretty quick, but it doesn't shove you into the back of your seat.
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It kind of like nudges you back and I'm pretty sure that's
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due to like Audi's tuning of the throttle as opposed to what
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it's actually capable of. As for corners. It's fine. It has an electromechanical steering rack.
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Let's put it in here. I have no clue what's on the go. There's not much engagement. Like the steering
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weight's always very low, even in the sports setting. Like I do wish that they'd given me a bit more of a raw
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steering feel as opposed to the more, I guess,
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jelloy feel that there is here. We do have Android auto. So play Crabrave.
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- Crabrave by Noisestorm. Sure. Playing on Spotify.
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- I love having a useful voice assistant. Thank you, Google. We are going be in an O sound system and it is really good.
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There's not a lot of bass, but the base is there. If you're middle-aged, this is the perfect sound system.
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If my mom was to drive the Taycan, she would be terrified of hitting the gas,
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whereas in this thing right here, go into this corner flant it, that'll be exciting, but not terrifying.
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You know, for the person that I think is going to buy this
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it's really well done. For myself, I'm a bit of an SUV hater.
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I think wagons are just as practical and almost every
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situation handled way better.
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So I guess if you have the money to spend on one of these, should you get one?
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Maybe I guess it starts at 77 US realistically are in it for about a hundred
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once you put the options on here that you want. One that makes me really mad is that they don't give you
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rear side curtain airbags, $350 option.
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Increase the MSRP of the car by 350 bucks. I don't want someone's kid's head going through the side
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window cause you didn't spend that. For me, I'm not going to buy it.
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It's very expensive and not very fun to drive, but I could see a lot of people really liking it.
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You are looking at a very similar price to a model X,
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but the interior of this is a lot more comfortable.
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It's really great how it does just smooth out the ride.
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It makes it super quiet. It is compelling if you don't like driving and just want to
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get driven around, wouldn't buy it. But I do like it.
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It's a huge thanks to open road for getting us this. This is part of their premiere package where you can kind of
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like swap, swap luxury cars. If you want, you could just be driving this thing for not all that much.
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And yeah, hit like, get subscribed. Let us know how we can change these videos,
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cause we still haven't made very many car ones, and just have a great day.
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Ooh.