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Message: From what I can recall of the ergonomic incongruities, and how responsive the car should be:
Changed By: Laz
Change Date: July 09, 2013 07:54PM
From what I can recall of the ergonomic incongruities, and how responsive the car should be:
Change Date: July 09, 2013 07:54PM
From what I can recall of the ergonomic incongruities, and how responsive the car should be:
Red fluorescent digital center display; two big simple round instruments to each side with classic typography, markings, and lighting. The stylistic differential makes the mental processing difficult when observing one type of display versus the other. Aesthetically, that center display just doesn't belong there, and looks like some [i]ad hoc[/i] 1980's HiFi display.
Other than two mult-function round knobs, and one incongruously small power/volume knob, nothing tactile for operating the climate control and/or audio controls. Having to take one's eyes off the road so as to poke at exactly the relevant button arrayed by quadrant around the round knob.
Do I recall correctly that the two systems' modules have overlapping functions?
The dash air vents' iconography isn't intuitive. Does that triangle/arrowhead mean this way is less air, more air, on, off?
Having to [i]push in[/i] the lock/ignition key in order to be able to [i]pull[/i] it [i]out.[/i]
Maybe it's the turbo combined with the automatic (CVT?) but the throttle response is nonlinear: nothing and then boom!
The steering is vague, has [i]no[/i] road feel, and at interstate speeds requires constant corrections to keep the car from wandering. (Not sure if this had e-steering.)
The shift lever with plus and minus markings... is it a sequential shifter? What's "S?"
The relationship between yaw and roll is nonlinear. Even as a sporting sedan I expect more sporting behavior, and it doesn't say much to me if the first comparison that came to mind was a Celica, a car with a different purpose and probably demographic.
BMW never came to mind.
If I had concentrated on being more analytical when operating it, I probably could've come up with more here, and've been more articulate.
Other than two mult-function round knobs, and one incongruously small power/volume knob, nothing tactile for operating the climate control and/or audio controls. Having to take one's eyes off the road so as to poke at exactly the relevant button arrayed by quadrant around the round knob.
Do I recall correctly that the two systems' modules have overlapping functions?
The dash air vents' iconography isn't intuitive. Does that triangle/arrowhead mean this way is less air, more air, on, off?
Having to [i]push in[/i] the lock/ignition key in order to be able to [i]pull[/i] it [i]out.[/i]
Maybe it's the turbo combined with the automatic (CVT?) but the throttle response is nonlinear: nothing and then boom!
The steering is vague, has [i]no[/i] road feel, and at interstate speeds requires constant corrections to keep the car from wandering. (Not sure if this had e-steering.)
The shift lever with plus and minus markings... is it a sequential shifter? What's "S?"
The relationship between yaw and roll is nonlinear. Even as a sporting sedan I expect more sporting behavior, and it doesn't say much to me if the first comparison that came to mind was a Celica, a car with a different purpose and probably demographic.
BMW never came to mind.
If I had concentrated on being more analytical when operating it, I probably could've come up with more here, and've been more articulate.
Original Message
Author: LazDate: July 09, 2013 07:52PM
From what I can recall of the ergonomic incongruities, and how responsive the car should be:
Red fluorescent digital center display; two big simple round instruments to each side with classic typography, markings, and lighting. The stylistic differential makes the mental processing difficult when observing one type of display versus the other. Aesthetically, that center display just doesn't belong there, and looks like some [i]ad hoc[/i] 1980's HiFi display.
Other than two mult-function round knobs, and one incongruously small power/volume knob, nothing tactile for operating the climate control and/or audio controls. Having to take one's eyes off the road so as to poke at exactly the relevant button arrayed by quadrant around the round knob.
Do I recall correctly that the two systems' modules have overlapping functions?
The dash air vents' iconography isn't intuitive. Does that triangle/arrowhead mean this way is less air, more air, on, off?
Having to [i]push in[/i] the lock/ignition key in order to be able to [i]pull[/i] it [i]out.[/i]
Maybe it's the turbo combined with the automatic (CVT?) but the throttle response is nonlinear: nothing and then boom!
The steering is vague, has [i]no[/i] road feel, and at interstate speeds requires constant corrections to keep the car from wandering. (Not sure if this had e-steering.)
The shift lever with plus and minus markings... is it a sequential shifter? What's "S?"
The relationship between yaw and roll is nonlinear. Even as a sporting sedan I expect more sporting behavior, and it doesn't say much to me if the first comparison that came to mind was a Celica, a car with a different purpose and probably demographic.
If I had concentrated on being more analytical when operating it, I probably could've come up with more here, and've been more articulate.
Other than two mult-function round knobs, and one incongruously small power/volume knob, nothing tactile for operating the climate control and/or audio controls. Having to take one's eyes off the road so as to poke at exactly the relevant button arrayed by quadrant around the round knob.
Do I recall correctly that the two systems' modules have overlapping functions?
The dash air vents' iconography isn't intuitive. Does that triangle/arrowhead mean this way is less air, more air, on, off?
Having to [i]push in[/i] the lock/ignition key in order to be able to [i]pull[/i] it [i]out.[/i]
Maybe it's the turbo combined with the automatic (CVT?) but the throttle response is nonlinear: nothing and then boom!
The steering is vague, has [i]no[/i] road feel, and at interstate speeds requires constant corrections to keep the car from wandering. (Not sure if this had e-steering.)
The shift lever with plus and minus markings... is it a sequential shifter? What's "S?"
The relationship between yaw and roll is nonlinear. Even as a sporting sedan I expect more sporting behavior, and it doesn't say much to me if the first comparison that came to mind was a Celica, a car with a different purpose and probably demographic.
If I had concentrated on being more analytical when operating it, I probably could've come up with more here, and've been more articulate.