@Menorca Mike
The dreaded CVT soundtrack, it’s going to be there on all with that awful excuse for a gearbox, no avoiding that really.
Here’s an idea, go test drive something with the Aisin EAT8 gearbox, doesn’t matter what just as long as it has that box, you will then see what an automatic gearbox should be like and at least you will have a baseline to judge others from, BMW, Peugeot, Citroen etc all use it and coming from a DSG I can honestly say it’s worlds apart.