‘I could hear its Eeyore voice as I pummelled it into second gear,“Really? Driving again?”’The Suzuki Vitara is the reverse of the tardis, looking larger and fancier, and only from the outside. Inside,the displays are maddening: behind touchscreen, slower satnav, or a radio that stops and starts for no reason,a parking camera in permanent panic mode and a “you’re approximately to crash into the person in front of you” alarm. I figured out thats what it was only because of the illustration: one car, another car and a giant comic-book star between them. I would say this feature makes you more, or rather than less,likely to crash.And how would that crash advance approximately? Certainly not through a sudden burst of speed. It’s 0-62mph is 12 seconds, far faster than anyone but a getaway driver would fill call for, or yet nevertheless the most sluggish I’ve driven for months,and you can feel a certain reluctance from the minute you turn on the engine. I could hear its Eeyore voice as I pummelled it into second gear, “Really? Driving again? Wouldn’t you rather just stay at home?”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com