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Jul 2023
1:01pm, 27 Jul 2023
2,094 posts
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JEB
Enjoy the new car Larkim!
Following yesterdays conversation re. the difference elevation makes, I paid attention on my commute. 5 miles uphill in a morning, followed by (obviously) 5 miles downhill home. 3.5m/kw in, touching 8m/kw on the way home, quite a difference.
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Jul 2023
8:47am, 28 Jul 2023
21,683 posts
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larkim
24 hours of new car, all good. A few more gadgets on this one which I may use for a few days and then forget about (adaptive cruise control and traffic jam assist, which effectively makes it self driving through stop-start traffic on the commute - fun to play with, but doesn't change the level of attention you pay so not really work risking whether it will or won't stop the car in time!)
Efficiency seems pretty much the same as the Peugeot based on one commute so far but it does seem to pack quite a bit more of a punch than the e208 from a standing start, despite it only have 0.2s advantage over 0-60 apparently. Not sure if that is just the rwd nature with more grip at low speed / high torque compared to fwd though.
No scheduled pre-heating of the cabin though, needs manually setting, so will miss that on cold winter days. Stereo not quite as good in terms of sound quality, but perfectly fine. Bigger screen for Android Auto is nice.
Other than that, it has 4 wheels, accelerates and brakes and keeps me warm and dry. It's a car.
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Jul 2023
9:36am, 28 Jul 2023
47,374 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
It's a car! Gets one from A to B! Good to hear going well though. As I say, it's my go to for next year. Trophy and orange or black though! V important!
I actually do use cruise, braking and lane control on motorway. Very relaxing, saves my right ankle and I see it as *extra* protection, in addition to my eyes.  G
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Jul 2023
9:44am, 28 Jul 2023
2,769 posts
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Surelynot
I just discovered my car has park assist after having it for 9 months.
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Jul 2023
9:58am, 28 Jul 2023
15,200 posts
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jda
We switch off the lane assist as soon as we set off for local roads, but the smart cruise control (lane steering and also speed control) was great on the motorway. The “smart” bit means it automatically slows down and maintains your preferred distance behind vehicles. Handy for drafting lorries when I was eking out the battery in our recent long trip but also just v easy and relaxing for cruising along. You do get warned if you let go of the steering wheel (or even just touch it lightly).
Perhaps many/most modern ICE are similar? Our recent rental (USA) just had standard cruise control though. And ICE means that also comes with random gear changes too.
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Jul 2023
10:17am, 28 Jul 2023
6,908 posts
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ThorntonRunner
I was suspicious to begin with of the adaptive cruise control on my MG5, but I'm used to it now and as jda says - makes for a more relaxing drive.
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Jul 2023
10:57am, 28 Jul 2023
21,684 posts
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larkim
Yes, maybe I just need to get used to it (and trusting it). On my test of it on the motorway home last night the anxieties I had were how it would respond when someone dived into the nice clear space between me and the car / truck in front, and felt like my foot on the accelerator felt more "primed" to respond quickly.
In terms of efficiency, the advice I'd generally followed on use of ACC or CC was that they aren't great for maxxing out the efficiency as they insist on keeping you at the set speed on inclines and descents. Now part of me doesn't feel that that's right, as surely what you lose on the ascent you gain on the descent, but I think the over-riding logic was that to optimise the downhill gains you needed to exceed the speed that you climbed at. Probably worth about as much as a fart in the wind in terms of actual efficiency, but I did (anecdotally) seem to get better efficiency over a long period when I trusted my right foot rather than the car (previously the Pug had basic CC).
I probably just need to learn the symbiosis of my inputs and the cars inputs so that we work together effectively.
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Jul 2023
12:09pm, 28 Jul 2023
15,205 posts
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jda
When someone cuts in it decelerates, I did think it was a bit sharp but my wife as passenger thought it was ok so probably part of that is just not being in control.
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Jul 2023
12:20pm, 28 Jul 2023
21,686 posts
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larkim
I think maybe I can tweak things by fiddling with the ERS braking efficiency too which might impact how quickly it decelerates. I think my human reaction to a cut in like that would mostly be to ease off gently whilst being uber-alert to the new vehicle suddenly changing speed; the car's reaction is to react to try to create it's expected gap a bit quicker than I would.
But probably just something to get used to, or to try a few times and then ignore! For the few minutes where I've effectively let it drive itself, it was quite unnerving - being in a full autonomous vehicle would shred my nerves completely!!
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Jul 2023
12:34pm, 28 Jul 2023
15,206 posts
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jda
I’m a bit like that when my wife drives but I’m trying to get over it
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