Has anyone driven the new S yet? I’m contemplating getting a new one but fancy an auto.
Has anyone driven the new S yet? I’m contemplating getting a new one but fancy an auto.
No, but I was looking at a 2019 500X in the showroom while waiting for the aircon to be done. Where has the Mode Selector gone? Just a naff black plastic disc filling the hole where it should be.
I asked the same question at our local dealership and they said that only the 4x4 models have the mode selector, all the others come with that dummy placeholder. I found that really weird.
Simple. You don't. It'll be like ye olde world cars where you decided how fast you go by using the peddles. Chances are, they've redesigned the throttle response, the map, etc to strike a balance between performance and economy. Probably also incorporated a balanced steering weight too, along with the other bits sports mode changed.
So what if I don't want the balance? What if I want maximum economy most of the time and maximum performance occasionally? Why dumb down a modern Sport Utility Vehicle into a goddamn mommymobile?
Anyway, they could have come up with a better idea for the mode selector, used it for something else in the non-AWD versions. This dummy flat plastic cover looks stupid and it's a waste of valuable space, in my opinion.
I can't wrap my mind around it. OK, let's say the car has no AWD, but it still has to have the turbo, right? So how do you switch between the normal and the sports mode if there is no goddamn knob??
There are other penny pinching car brands available if you don't like the deletion of a knob.
I think their attitude is that if you want 4wd, buy a Jeep Renegade!
Yes but why is such an attitude only for the UK market? I don't really get it.
Its exactly what they did with the Sedici although that car was originally a full 4x4 from the start across the range. They then tried to cheapen the car by offering as - what they called it a '4x2' ?! As per earlier posts my wife changed her Sedici for her 500X - the Sedici was superb in the slippy stuff.............
Probably our is one of the very few right hand drive markets and by not making a 4wd version they can cut a few parts out of production and save on the costs of testing registering the rhd version