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just go my 9-3 SS vector diesel
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Posted by patrice03 (more from patrice03) on Wed, 26 Mar 2003 03:04:49 Share Post by Email
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After 850 km, first impressions:

Pros:

- Excellent handling, fund to drive, the car sticks to the road,
- Manual Gear is quick and nice to use
- Steering wheel impressions are excellent, first, car reacts immediately, don’t have the feeling to drive a sedan, I like that ! although on motorway a high speed should be concentrated not to cross lanes. also, easy to park the car and drive in traffic.
- Brakes efficient
- Engine is rather powerful, linear, (I mean the diesel). I really appreciate not to feel vibrations in s.wheel or gear when starting on.
- Presentation cockpit-style ! well we all like that
- The interior lights, everywhere, below dashboard, doors etc.. really nice. Also like the atmosphere at night with all buttons and different screens.
- The quality of some plastics (top dashboard), leather and carpet , the overall impression is positive although not reaching levels of a bmw.
- The audio quality of the 300W system for CD. Rather good and does not lack bass.

After this exhaustive list.. the cons..

- Comfort on the vector is just fine, the 17" sport wheels - Pirelli p zero - probably also responsible. Compromise handling/comfort could have been slightly better I believe. The ride is somewhat bumpy.
- The diesel engine is too noisy when driving in town ! that really sucks !
- The quality of the radio is so- so for a premium model, of course it outperforms the stock model and 150W one, but lags behind other systems such as the incredible Volvo s60 one.
- Seats are ok, but would have preferred bigger ones, once again here the Volvo S60 provides greater comfort. I took the full leather option, beige, and surprised to see that there is a black lane on the seats..did not like it so much.
- About build-in quality, on bad roads can hear some rattles, not loud ones, but hope that with time the car will not suffer from quality glitches.
- Also, some plastics are cheap (where arm rest, the system where you put your cans seems very fragile, carpet in trunk is really cheap).

Just to sum-up, really nice to car to drive with outstanding atmosphere, but comfort could have been slightly better (noise/seats/tough susp.)



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