Rene – Look under ‘Motability Car Reviews’ (sticky thread towards top), page 3, 7th post down.
Cheers, just had a read, and agree to some extend – we basically have the exact same issues with our Ateca, which is using the same (re-skinned) software and hardware. Sat Nav is.. temperamental, but we learned to work around that. Bit of a faff, but not a deal breaker. Voice Control is.. A first generation system. We use it to stop Sat Nav guidance (“stop route guidance”) and getting home (“navigation route home”) – which work just fine. Any system that uses a button to activate voice control is ultimately useless – more advanced “natural” systems are considerably better (“Hey Mercedes” etc). LED Headlights, same issue – and yes, IQ lights fix that. Forward collision assist, ours does the same thing. Never done it on the motorway though. Adaptive Cruise control, exact same thing. For us, accelerating after braking doesn’t even fix it – i would expect that if the car slows down and the guy in front is out of the way, if i tap the accelerator, it just goes back to the adjusted speed. It doesn’t. It brakes, i tap the accelerator, we go up a little, i let off and the car brakes again, this can be repeated up to three times before it picks up again. Worst feature on our car.
Economy, we have the 1.5 DSG and returned up to 48mpg, so we genuinely can’t complain in that regard.
Cheers for writing the review, here’s hoping that the Sat Nav (we’d go with the Discover Pro for extra monies) has been improved. The main issue we got with ours is that while we can work around the sometimes awful routing, it’s hampered by the “low performance” of the computer behind it. Everything’s laggy, inputs take too long etc – the Disco Pro should fix that. Hoping, at least.
Prior: SEAT Ateca Xcellence Lux 1.5 TSI DSG MY19, VW Golf GTE PHEV DSG MY23
Current: Hyundai Ioniq 6 Ultimate
Next: we'll see what's available in 2028.