On Tuesday evening I finally could pick up my C-HR. After some explanation from the salesperson of the key features of the car, I put my brandnew 1.2 CVT into D and there i went. I have driven it for more than 250 km at the moment. Today a drive to the beach gave me the first real sense of the type of car I bought and it hasn't disappointed me yet. In fact I really like driving it so much I'm thinking of reasons to go places.
My previous car was a Hyundai i30 (2010) automatic 1.6 with almost the same horsepower I have now in my C-HR. But my C-HR is more responsive, quicker to accelerate and the turbo gives me all the power I need. I can overtake much faster and with more confidance then my Hyundai. That being said, it's no sportscar, but I wasn't looking to buy one. So for me it performs better then expected.
About the CVT. I read a lot of reviews about the car before buying and a lot of the review mention the rev noise of the car when accelerating. Driving in the city I couldn't tell what they were talking about. But when accelerating to get on the highway the first time I thought "ow that's what they mean" but it really didn't bother me that much. Going to the beach today and driving 150km (mainly highway) I didn't even notice it anymore.
The car is otherwise very silent, especially in the city you hardly hear the motor and there are almost no other road noises. On the highway I did notice some windnoise but I come from a very loud and noisey Hyundai car so for me even with the CVT and the windnoise I still find the C-HR extermely quiet.
Driving this car is for me a big upgrade from my previous car. I find it comfortable, robust, steering is light (for some people even a bit too light but i have no problems with it), and I love all the safety features that it has.
I do have to say that the space in the back seat does disappoint me a little bit. I had more space in my previous car but I don't get many backseat passengers a lot so I don't think this will be a big issue for me but I think people who do, this car is probably not for them. My rearwindows are not tinted and I'm pleased with that. The claustrophobic effect that every reviewer talks about is less. I do have to agree that the C pillars in the back create a big blindspot (and the passengerseat in the front also is a bit in the way when you want to look if there is a car in the blindspot) but the blindspot monitor tries to compensate for that.
I don't regret buying this car at all at the moment and don't even think about the mazda cx-3 anymore that was my other next-car-possibility.
I'm still getting to know the car and have some questions:
-Now and then i get two bleeps without anything showing on the dashboard screen. I don't know what it means. Just two bleeps very fast and then its gone for some time but it always comes back. I would like to know what it means.
-Yesterday suddenly my rearwindow heating turned on automatically, is this normal?
-Yesterday automatically the roadsign detection was turned off. (Could be me, maybe i did that by mistake).
-I'm trying to figure out how the blindspot monitor works. When i passby a car the small light in the mirror doesn't show that somebody is in my blindspot. When a car overtakes me en is in my blindspot then the light does turn on. Probably normal?
-I can't seem to make an internet connection thru bluetooth with my phone. It gives me an error that it doesn't find the internet. Otherwise the bluetooth connection with my phone works perfectly and very stable.
My previous car was a Hyundai i30 (2010) automatic 1.6 with almost the same horsepower I have now in my C-HR. But my C-HR is more responsive, quicker to accelerate and the turbo gives me all the power I need. I can overtake much faster and with more confidance then my Hyundai. That being said, it's no sportscar, but I wasn't looking to buy one. So for me it performs better then expected.
About the CVT. I read a lot of reviews about the car before buying and a lot of the review mention the rev noise of the car when accelerating. Driving in the city I couldn't tell what they were talking about. But when accelerating to get on the highway the first time I thought "ow that's what they mean" but it really didn't bother me that much. Going to the beach today and driving 150km (mainly highway) I didn't even notice it anymore.
The car is otherwise very silent, especially in the city you hardly hear the motor and there are almost no other road noises. On the highway I did notice some windnoise but I come from a very loud and noisey Hyundai car so for me even with the CVT and the windnoise I still find the C-HR extermely quiet.
Driving this car is for me a big upgrade from my previous car. I find it comfortable, robust, steering is light (for some people even a bit too light but i have no problems with it), and I love all the safety features that it has.
I do have to say that the space in the back seat does disappoint me a little bit. I had more space in my previous car but I don't get many backseat passengers a lot so I don't think this will be a big issue for me but I think people who do, this car is probably not for them. My rearwindows are not tinted and I'm pleased with that. The claustrophobic effect that every reviewer talks about is less. I do have to agree that the C pillars in the back create a big blindspot (and the passengerseat in the front also is a bit in the way when you want to look if there is a car in the blindspot) but the blindspot monitor tries to compensate for that.
I don't regret buying this car at all at the moment and don't even think about the mazda cx-3 anymore that was my other next-car-possibility.
I'm still getting to know the car and have some questions:
-Now and then i get two bleeps without anything showing on the dashboard screen. I don't know what it means. Just two bleeps very fast and then its gone for some time but it always comes back. I would like to know what it means.
-Yesterday suddenly my rearwindow heating turned on automatically, is this normal?
-Yesterday automatically the roadsign detection was turned off. (Could be me, maybe i did that by mistake).
-I'm trying to figure out how the blindspot monitor works. When i passby a car the small light in the mirror doesn't show that somebody is in my blindspot. When a car overtakes me en is in my blindspot then the light does turn on. Probably normal?
-I can't seem to make an internet connection thru bluetooth with my phone. It gives me an error that it doesn't find the internet. Otherwise the bluetooth connection with my phone works perfectly and very stable.
I have navigation, but it never beeped on cameras. Should the screen be turned on to navigation in order to beep for cameras?
