I've had my car for about a week now. There is a lot that I really like about it. It attracts attention pretty much where ever I go - that is cool. It sounds sweet from the exhaust pipe. It seems pretty fast but it is too early in the burn in for me to push it very hard and also the weather here is not yet favorable for hard driving. So awesome styling and performance. It was exactly the form factor that I wanted - a fast fun looking car that could seat 4 people at a price point that I could live with.
On the negative side, the "fit/finish" and "maturity" of the production process is not there yet compared against rivals from Germany. Little things like the way the doors sound when they close (sort of lacking that tight seal clunk that most new cars have - it sounds like my bucks from the 80s. Bigger things like the miserable quality of the audio system: no bass to speak off, when you crank it up you can actually hear the speakers vibrating in the mounts, lack of song information on the large touch screen display in most modes.
Hopefully most of these issues will be fixed in short order. And hopefully this is not just the beginning of a long list of quality quirks. Who knows maybe I will fall so in love with the Italian-ness of the car that I will be able overlook what seems like table stakes for a lot of other cars that it competes with.
On the negative side, the "fit/finish" and "maturity" of the production process is not there yet compared against rivals from Germany. Little things like the way the doors sound when they close (sort of lacking that tight seal clunk that most new cars have - it sounds like my bucks from the 80s. Bigger things like the miserable quality of the audio system: no bass to speak off, when you crank it up you can actually hear the speakers vibrating in the mounts, lack of song information on the large touch screen display in most modes.
Hopefully most of these issues will be fixed in short order. And hopefully this is not just the beginning of a long list of quality quirks. Who knows maybe I will fall so in love with the Italian-ness of the car that I will be able overlook what seems like table stakes for a lot of other cars that it competes with.