Jan 5 2021, 11:16 AM
QUOTE(adkiller @ Jan 4 2021, 05:46 PM)
The XV won't be getting the 1.6 turbo engine here in Malaysia. MotorImage (TCM) has not been a good distributor for our market. Unfortunately, they are slow to update the car and bring in new features, even if the same facelift has already received the updates in other markets. Also the EyeSight for XV was promised to arrive by late 2019, yet until now no updates on it.
The XV may be well planted, but it is sluggish, even performing slower than the HRV in the century sprint. Maybe you are special in that you have plans to take your car off-road regularly, but I can assure you that most drivers won't. Taking it off-road regularly would require special tires for that and won't be as comfortable on roads.
Not sure why everyone here hate XV so much while it is clearly more superior option to HRV and always mocking its AWD as an disadvantages rather than some extra features you can get with just a small price different. All the other fancy electronics in X50 like ADAS also have tendency to fail but nobody talks about it.The XV may be well planted, but it is sluggish, even performing slower than the HRV in the century sprint. Maybe you are special in that you have plans to take your car off-road regularly, but I can assure you that most drivers won't. Taking it off-road regularly would require special tires for that and won't be as comfortable on roads.
XV and HRV acceleration wise not much different, XV is about 150kg heavier but it has a bigger 2.0 direct injection engine, the power to weight ratio is just 1.5% less for XV. If you wanna argue the Push-to-back feel it don't meant much, this also indicate how well a car mask the inertia.
Don't forget XV also build on a C-Segment platform while its seat also have much better thigh support compared to HRV front and rear.
AWD will benefit you everywhere, you won't know when you trying to be a little bit more adventurous sometimes and got one of its wheels stucked in the ditch/hole where you lose traction and you can also lose tracking while raining, there were once I saw an SUV got one of its wheel stucked in the ditch and I thought its game, then it just conveniently got its way out of it, and I take a look at the logo and it was a Subaru, otherwise this guy gonna be calling tow truck already.
Yes the HRV came with ESC and stuff which might be sufficient but it will never beat the Superiority of the AWD no matter how you look at it.
The AWD built in it is an advantage, not a disadvantages, and it won't broke down easily like some suggested, rear differential oil change don't cost you a bomb
like some has suggested considering you are paying for a 100k-ish priced car.
The only part I don't like about XV is how outdated it is in Malaysia like you said, EyeSight is a thing for more than 2 years yet we get nothing from it.
They willing to give you altermarket look HU but without android auto/car play
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