After now owning my new 508 GT for a few months I thought I’d share some first impressions.
Firstly, I’m amazed at how many comments I’ve received from strangers. The styling is sure proving a hit, with most people commenting on what a beautiful looking car it is!
Comfort and ride are both excellent. I drive 99% of the time in “normal” mode. There is Comfort, Normal, Economy and Sport modes.
Pleasing to note that the Sport mode is far more serious than this mode on other Pugs I’ve owned. The steering weights up and the suspension stiffens giving a real sporty feel.
Gear changes with the 8-speed auto are wonderfully smooth, often you need to check the dash readout to see that it is in fact changing gears.Only grumble is if you really stab the accelerator then lift your foot off it annoyingly holds the gear for too long.
I have played with most of the features including letting the car automatically stop and start to crawl along with bumper to bumper traffic. The car will even keep within the lane autonomously without you touching the steering.
The cruise control is typically French in that it is way too complicated to use, but once mastered it’s brilliant. Set the speed and if you approach another vehicle going slower the cruise will adjust and maintain a safe distance automatically.
Because the pug also reads speed signs (which are displayed on the dashboard) when you reach a new speed zone whilst in cruise control it will “ask” if you want to now cruise at the new limit. Very handy.
However, I do think cars have too much driver interaction, and I find the auto lane departure annoying mostly and turn it off.
The stop/start function is also turned off as I’m not a fan of this either.
Interestingly the auto boot opening with a wave of your foot under the bumper - feature I thought of as complete toss has in fact been really useful when you have your hands full!-
The 1.6 litre engine does a good job, propelling the car to 100kmh slightly quicker than my old 2.2 diesel GT, but I would prefer something bigger. There’s no avoiding the fact the engine is really spinning over if you want to drive it enthusiastically.
Anyway, enough for now.
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Firstly, I’m amazed at how many comments I’ve received from strangers. The styling is sure proving a hit, with most people commenting on what a beautiful looking car it is!
Comfort and ride are both excellent. I drive 99% of the time in “normal” mode. There is Comfort, Normal, Economy and Sport modes.
Pleasing to note that the Sport mode is far more serious than this mode on other Pugs I’ve owned. The steering weights up and the suspension stiffens giving a real sporty feel.
Gear changes with the 8-speed auto are wonderfully smooth, often you need to check the dash readout to see that it is in fact changing gears.Only grumble is if you really stab the accelerator then lift your foot off it annoyingly holds the gear for too long.
I have played with most of the features including letting the car automatically stop and start to crawl along with bumper to bumper traffic. The car will even keep within the lane autonomously without you touching the steering.
The cruise control is typically French in that it is way too complicated to use, but once mastered it’s brilliant. Set the speed and if you approach another vehicle going slower the cruise will adjust and maintain a safe distance automatically.
Because the pug also reads speed signs (which are displayed on the dashboard) when you reach a new speed zone whilst in cruise control it will “ask” if you want to now cruise at the new limit. Very handy.
However, I do think cars have too much driver interaction, and I find the auto lane departure annoying mostly and turn it off.
The stop/start function is also turned off as I’m not a fan of this either.
Interestingly the auto boot opening with a wave of your foot under the bumper - feature I thought of as complete toss has in fact been really useful when you have your hands full!-
The 1.6 litre engine does a good job, propelling the car to 100kmh slightly quicker than my old 2.2 diesel GT, but I would prefer something bigger. There’s no avoiding the fact the engine is really spinning over if you want to drive it enthusiastically.
Anyway, enough for now.
Sent from my iPad using aussiefrogs