I currently live in Orlando with the nearest show room being in West Palm Beach FL. I've been to the showroom once and had the opportunity to view/tour a stationary vehicle. Today, I finally was able to test drive a Black GT with 19" wheels. There were some nuances/surprises I got out of this experience I didn't expect.
There were 2 things that annoyed me beyond belief in which weren't on my radar.
The sun visors in particularly surprised me. The seats lowest settings were not accommodating for what I'm used to as someone who is fairly average height at 5'10". The sun visors were directly in my upper vision and almost seemed like something that flat out didn't belong. If anything, they were highly distracting. I know I've seen some grumbling in these forums about this, but when I do receive my unit, I am going to pry them off almost instantly. I understand there's some insurance stuff + regulatory requirements that could be tied around this.. but man.. they are distracting and almost ruin the entire ambiance of the glass roof. Woof...
Regarding the pedal, it was almost sheer embarrassment when a grinding noise came from the pedal when accelerating after a complete stop. The Showroom person tried to blow it off as "oh, that's just the brake releasing" and I continued to explain how having other people in a new $150k car.. and having a grinding noise occur each time you accelerate from a stop doesn't sound like luxury, it sounds like something is broken.
Overall, these items caught me off guard and both are absolutely not tied to software... so no updates on that other than physical hardware iterations.
Besides that, the software didn't fail to show lag (it wasn't on the latest update) and the Music situation was simply unacceptable. I paired my phone via bluetooth and waited about 5 minutes for anything to play. This was after a song and dance that confused the Showroom individual, my wife, and myself (a software engineer). That... hit expectations, but seeing the reality of those expectations was concerning (more than I thought).
I didn't experience any lag regarding the lock/unlock functionality or even car boot. I was surprised at how cheap/light weight/flimsy the actual key fob felt. I did notice the lane changing cameras were terrible, low frame rates and poor quality. The lighting experience outside and in was better than expected, and the steering wheel felt amazing. The right turn signal was irritating in the sense it never reset itself (hopefully a software thing).
The car was extremely cool being in Florida and almost embellishes you in AC from all directions (I loved this).
The choice to not have any red color indicators for the rear seat heater is questionable. It’s easy to mistaken the buttons for seat cooling rather heating and the only color indication of what they are is buried in the screen menu rather the convenience buttons.
But for the most part, those were the items that stuck out the most. I think I'm still keeping my order as the worst case scenario is selling my car and making profit from the price increases. If I were to cancel now (with my VIN and my vehicle produced) any regrets about the cancelation would be amplified by the extended wait of ordering again.
These items seem so obvious to me though, as obvious as the un-usefull-ness of the phone charger. I'm honestly curious what engineer sat in the car and signed off on these items.
There were 2 things that annoyed me beyond belief in which weren't on my radar.
- The location of the visors relative to the minimum seat height
- The acceleration pedal causing a grinding noise when releasing the brakes after a full stop
The sun visors in particularly surprised me. The seats lowest settings were not accommodating for what I'm used to as someone who is fairly average height at 5'10". The sun visors were directly in my upper vision and almost seemed like something that flat out didn't belong. If anything, they were highly distracting. I know I've seen some grumbling in these forums about this, but when I do receive my unit, I am going to pry them off almost instantly. I understand there's some insurance stuff + regulatory requirements that could be tied around this.. but man.. they are distracting and almost ruin the entire ambiance of the glass roof. Woof...
Regarding the pedal, it was almost sheer embarrassment when a grinding noise came from the pedal when accelerating after a complete stop. The Showroom person tried to blow it off as "oh, that's just the brake releasing" and I continued to explain how having other people in a new $150k car.. and having a grinding noise occur each time you accelerate from a stop doesn't sound like luxury, it sounds like something is broken.
Overall, these items caught me off guard and both are absolutely not tied to software... so no updates on that other than physical hardware iterations.
Besides that, the software didn't fail to show lag (it wasn't on the latest update) and the Music situation was simply unacceptable. I paired my phone via bluetooth and waited about 5 minutes for anything to play. This was after a song and dance that confused the Showroom individual, my wife, and myself (a software engineer). That... hit expectations, but seeing the reality of those expectations was concerning (more than I thought).
I didn't experience any lag regarding the lock/unlock functionality or even car boot. I was surprised at how cheap/light weight/flimsy the actual key fob felt. I did notice the lane changing cameras were terrible, low frame rates and poor quality. The lighting experience outside and in was better than expected, and the steering wheel felt amazing. The right turn signal was irritating in the sense it never reset itself (hopefully a software thing).
The car was extremely cool being in Florida and almost embellishes you in AC from all directions (I loved this).
The choice to not have any red color indicators for the rear seat heater is questionable. It’s easy to mistaken the buttons for seat cooling rather heating and the only color indication of what they are is buried in the screen menu rather the convenience buttons.
But for the most part, those were the items that stuck out the most. I think I'm still keeping my order as the worst case scenario is selling my car and making profit from the price increases. If I were to cancel now (with my VIN and my vehicle produced) any regrets about the cancelation would be amplified by the extended wait of ordering again.
These items seem so obvious to me though, as obvious as the un-usefull-ness of the phone charger. I'm honestly curious what engineer sat in the car and signed off on these items.
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