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Originally Posted by bcedhk
[...] My in-law's has a 2022 Model 3 and wish to switch to a XC40 [...]
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I'm currently driving a 2023 Volvo C40 EV as a service loaner (Rivian ran out of loaner vehicles so I got my pick at Enterprise), and I remembered this post so I thought I'd follow up. For context in the comparison: I don't own a Model 3, but a couple of friends have them so I've been in/around them and driven them on road trips etc.
It looks pretty good!
And the tail lights do this cool on/off where they light up in sequence.
https://youtube.com/shorts/9bop50Cxi...HZ5iCRtTBakII6
But, I hope your in-laws test-drive one ASAP so they know what they are getting themselves into, and/or be at peace with what they have:
1) The interior feels really cramped. There's even a hump on the floor in the rear. A lot of it seems to be in the design choices: e.g. the dash is mounted kinda high which looks cool but feels claustrophobic to me, personally.
2) The interior panels are making plasticky rattling sounds driving over bumps.
3) With the keyless entry, there's a delay between sticking your hand in the door handles and the door actually unlocking, so you wind up having to pull a couple times to open it (my wife's i3 doesn't doesn't have this issue, for example).
4) The powered liftgate has been glitching out and randomly shutting on us all by itself. This has already bonked me on the head lol. And sometimes it mysteriously thinks something is in its way and opens back up, even though there's nothing there.
5) The throttle to motor movement mapping at low speeds is kinda weird. There's a bit of an odd disconnect: there's a delay, and at times it seems like it's moving faster than you think it should given the pedal travel. But sometimes it's the other way around. Faster than a crawl, no issues.
6) The infotainment screen is easily the worst part. For whatever reason, they chose to do the Tesla Model S approach of using a vertical screen.
But the difference is their screen is tiny, so now I can't see shit when I've got a map running. Why would they think a small screen in vertical orientation would be a good idea? Human vision don't work like that!
7) The infotainment software is garbage. Sure it's Google Android, but they seem to still have taken their own direction with the UI. The layout is super inconsistent and random and it's not intuitive to find stuff. A lot of random swiping to get to things like keeping HVAC running when the car's shut off. It's also really unresponsive, and kinda glitchy. Feels like using an Android phone from a decade ago.
8) The rear-view camera quality is potatoes.
9) The top-down view is nice, but it's also potatoes.
But! The body panels all line up perfectly, which is nice
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And I like the level of CarPlay / Android Auto integration (though unfortunately is not wireless): e.g. when you're using Apple Maps, that actually projects into the middle of your gauge cluster! Even Audi doesn't do this with their Virtual Cockpit and you're stuck using their nav. When you're not plugged in, you get the car's built-in Google Maps navigation in your gauge cluster, which is plenty great.