"CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever" (carsoffortlangley)
09/06/2019 at 10:22 • Filed to: None
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"CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever" (carsoffortlangley)
09/06/2019 at 10:22 • Filed to: None | 4
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Yes, I’ve had a Spark for a month and have barely mentioned it. This is my bad review. Talk about kicking you when your down, I had my CX-3 stolen and was given a Spark as a rental in the same morning.
Good
In urban or suburban environments, this car, like others in its class really shines. Parking, driving and navigating around tight city lots and streets is a snap. The car has a surprisingly upright seating position, not unlike a small CUV. Visibility is really nice and you feel like you’re sitting higher than you should be in a car this size.
CVT provides adequate low speed acceleration/urban driving feel, but can drone fairly badly at higher speeds. Overall, I’d rather have had a standard torque converter.
Inside, you get seating for 5 adults. We had 3 people and Targa in there at once and that felt not too cramped for the 4 hour drive we were on.
bad pic, but cute quizzical look
Android Auto/Carplay are on tap. As is 4G LTE powered wifi in the car. I have no idea why GM is pushing the in-car wifi so hard, I don’t think it is useful, but whatever. Onstar is also present, I did not require it.
The Bad
This car is CHEAP. You can tell corners have been cut everywhere. Everything is hard and hollow feeling. Material quality is very poor.
The drivetrain is woefully inadequate on the interstate or even trying to accelerate hard. Brakes are awful.
The rear cupholder is reminiscent of a bedpan and is recessed into the middle rear seat. My wife and I even referred to it as “the bedpan” and my sister-in-law who is a nurse agreed.
Also, for some reason, the fuel gauge goes from 1 to 0. FUEL CAN’T BE BINARY CHEVY, it’s a scale.
Overall, you’d be better getting a Micra or something not made by GM.
Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
> CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
09/06/2019 at 10:33 |
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You're saying that fuel level identities as non-binary?
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CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
> Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
09/06/2019 at 10:35 |
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mazda616
> CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
09/06/2019 at 10:38 |
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I see a lot of these around here, which is odd because I live in relatively rural western Kentucky.
They’re all driven by old people, too.
BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo
> CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
09/06/2019 at 10:42 |
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Fun fact: you can get it in a color called Toasted Marshmallow
Manny05x
> CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
09/06/2019 at 10:59 |
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Give the doggo to me.
vicali
> CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
09/06/2019 at 11:28 |
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I had one catch up and pass me on the yellowhead around Mt Robson,there was a ton of traffic and I watched it bob and weave all the way up to me. It then made the sketchiest pass into oncoming traffic and then disappeared
up the line.
It was a bud
get rental with an N - driven like a rental indeed.
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vicali
> CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
09/06/2019 at 11:40 |
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Letters cost more, they only come on the gas gauges from the higher trims..
ZHP Sparky, the 5th
> CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
09/06/2019 at 12:10 |
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You know what would’ve made this car great? Continuing the Spark EV in to the current gen. I love that thing - yes its cheap and plastic on the inside, but it drives great and the electric drive train makes it pleasant to drive.
I get why they didn’t, I bet they lost a TON of money on the Spark EVs (I’m paying $130 a month for mine, gave them $0 down, and these things are worth $8k used now) but it makes me sad the Spark EV is no more.
Future Heap Owner
> CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
09/06/2019 at 12:41 |
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The fuel gauge on my rental Nissan Kicks has the same scale! I thought it was weird, too. I suppose it’s in “full tanks of gas” units, which strikes me as tautological. Maybe it’s an effort to better accommodate non-English speakers?
gin-san - shitpost specialist
> Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
09/06/2019 at 16:20 |
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You could argue (or maybe it’s just fact, I’m not a mathemagician) that there is an infinite range of numbers between 0 and 1.
Nick Has an Exocet
> CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
09/06/2019 at 16:48 |
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Also, for some reason, the fuel gauge goes from 1 to 0. FUEL CAN’T BE BINARY CHEVY, it’s a scale.
AHAH! I think we’ve spotted an annoying trend. I was just noticing/complaining about this in the rental MK VII Golf.
There it is - a 1 for “full”. At first, I really didn’t understand how this benefits anyone but then I realized it: numbers are more universal than English. By going from 1 to 0, they don’t need to regionalize the gas gauge. No more “completo, peny, , puno, vol”.
Longtime Lurker
> CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
09/07/2019 at 03:52 |
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Seating for 5... and there’s a cup holder in the middle of the seat base?
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CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
> Longtime Lurker
09/07/2019 at 10:30 |
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Yup. It's the weirdest thing