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Well! we picked up our Juke yesterday, our sales guy hid whilst we were there, very amusing. Hand over went smoothly, no real problems with the car except rear parcel shelf was on the boot floor and that I thought it had done 192 miles, but that was just the estimated range, it came with a mesily 6 miles on the clock!
Only a couple of pics because it started CHUCKING it down shortly after we picked the car up.
Our thoughts? LOVE the car, it looks awesome, love it in black, love the gadgets, it's so smooth to drive, steering is a night weight, not to light, not to heavy, it goes as fast as we'd want. After 200 miles we've settled into the suspension, it's not as smooth as our smaller car, but it's not jarringly hard. it's firm, ours also doesn't crash over bumps which is weird (not that I'm complaining!).
MPG is at 35.5avg (I assume average but I can't tell if it is or not). The I-CON eco history graph shows 40-35-35-35mpg). This was for 202 miles, 20 miles around town and then 180 on the motorway. I'm hoping once it's run in we return a more rounded 40+, but 35mpg round town will do us nicely!
Reversing in the rain at night, hope you guys with the Acenta + premium pack and Tekna's are good at guessing where you're going, the camera gets very wet to the point where it became pretty much useless, thankfully thee Juke has BIG mirrors (4x the size of the picaso mirrors that we drove to collect the Juke)
Oh and night + tinted windows == hard to reverse too! but you'll get used to it.
Steering wheel controls, would prefer the up/down toggle switch to do volume rather than change track/station.
Sat nav voice (Jane, the hand-over lady called her) interrupting our favourite song about 5 times as we were at a complicated junction... can't really fault this but we just wanted to hear the song, lol
So we'll be getting lots more pics just as soon as the rain stops!
Some sad news for other people expecting to pick up their Juke from Beadles
Maidstone, ours was on of the lucky 3 delivered last week. The rest I'm told have been delayed due to a transportation issue at Sundereland.
Update: 07/10</font>
Quick updated hands on after 4 days with the Juke. Overall still love it!
The height is great! driving around town on Sunday it was nice getting a higher-up perspective on things, better visiblity out the front & down on to people it's not too high that you can't get in car parks etc, just high enough!
Slidey leather, love being able to swing my butt around to get in/out without having my trousers catch on the cloth upholstery. this does have it's downsides tho, my daughter's booster seat slides across over the seatbelt plug when she gets in so it takes her an extra few seconds to move it back and plug-in her seatbelt in!
Wing mirrors, automatically fold in when locking, which is a nice touch (there's a switch underneath to turn that off tho, but I like it. it's cute!)
A pillar + wing mirror = have to move head to pull out of junction. No biggie but on certain t-junctions round here you have to move your head to see if there's anything coming from the left.
No heated mirrors, so all the other toys on the car and they forget one of the fundamental things? sa-la-ve,
No way to get number pad on phone during call for voicemail etc.
Keyless entry, very cool although totally confused me at first, I thought it unlocked the car as you close to it, but you have to press the black button to unlock it. also thought it locked the car for you when you left it, but also you have to make sure you lock it too. And nearly let the wife drive off without the key (had it in my pocket when I got out the car) thankfully the car beeped to let me know.
Engine, we've been driving round in eco mode pretty much since Saturday MPG is pegged at 35.6 now, the 'daily graph shows it moving around between 30mpg & 38mpg). These have all been around town so the figure is slightly above the quoted figures. We have 3 bars left (range of 77miles) and have done 250 miles.
So only a few niggles, but by far its the car that's put the biggest smile on or face, we owned: Mazda 2 TS2, MINI Cooper-S, Seat Altea, Peugeot 206 GTI and a few others I cant' remember.
Edited by: iamdabe
Well! we picked up our Juke yesterday, our sales guy hid whilst we were there, very amusing. Hand over went smoothly, no real problems with the car except rear parcel shelf was on the boot floor and that I thought it had done 192 miles, but that was just the estimated range, it came with a mesily 6 miles on the clock!
Only a couple of pics because it started CHUCKING it down shortly after we picked the car up.
Our thoughts? LOVE the car, it looks awesome, love it in black, love the gadgets, it's so smooth to drive, steering is a night weight, not to light, not to heavy, it goes as fast as we'd want. After 200 miles we've settled into the suspension, it's not as smooth as our smaller car, but it's not jarringly hard. it's firm, ours also doesn't crash over bumps which is weird (not that I'm complaining!).
MPG is at 35.5avg (I assume average but I can't tell if it is or not). The I-CON eco history graph shows 40-35-35-35mpg). This was for 202 miles, 20 miles around town and then 180 on the motorway. I'm hoping once it's run in we return a more rounded 40+, but 35mpg round town will do us nicely!
Reversing in the rain at night, hope you guys with the Acenta + premium pack and Tekna's are good at guessing where you're going, the camera gets very wet to the point where it became pretty much useless, thankfully thee Juke has BIG mirrors (4x the size of the picaso mirrors that we drove to collect the Juke)
Oh and night + tinted windows == hard to reverse too! but you'll get used to it. Steering wheel controls, would prefer the up/down toggle switch to do volume rather than change track/station.
Sat nav voice (Jane, the hand-over lady called her) interrupting our favourite song about 5 times as we were at a complicated junction... can't really fault this but we just wanted to hear the song, lol
So we'll be getting lots more pics just as soon as the rain stops!
Some sad news for other people expecting to pick up their Juke from Beadles
Maidstone, ours was on of the lucky 3 delivered last week. The rest I'm told have been delayed due to a transportation issue at Sundereland.
Update: 07/10</font>
Quick updated hands on after 4 days with the Juke. Overall still love it!
The height is great! driving around town on Sunday it was nice getting a higher-up perspective on things, better visiblity out the front & down on to people it's not too high that you can't get in car parks etc, just high enough!
Slidey leather, love being able to swing my butt around to get in/out without having my trousers catch on the cloth upholstery. this does have it's downsides tho, my daughter's booster seat slides across over the seatbelt plug when she gets in so it takes her an extra few seconds to move it back and plug-in her seatbelt in!
Wing mirrors, automatically fold in when locking, which is a nice touch
(there's a switch underneath to turn that off tho, but I like it. it's cute!)A pillar + wing mirror = have to move head to pull out of junction. No biggie but on certain t-junctions round here you have to move your head to see if there's anything coming from the left.
No heated mirrors, so all the other toys on the car and they forget one of the fundamental things? sa-la-ve,
No way to get number pad on phone during call for voicemail etc.
Keyless entry, very cool although totally confused me at first, I thought it unlocked the car as you close to it, but you have to press the black button to unlock it. also thought it locked the car for you when you left it, but also you have to make sure you lock it too. And nearly let the wife drive off without the key (had it in my pocket when I got out the car) thankfully the car beeped to let me know.
Engine, we've been driving round in eco mode pretty much since Saturday MPG is pegged at 35.6 now, the 'daily graph shows it moving around between 30mpg & 38mpg). These have all been around town so the figure is slightly above the quoted figures. We have 3 bars left (range of 77miles) and have done 250 miles.
So only a few niggles, but by far its the car that's put the biggest smile on or face, we owned: Mazda 2 TS2, MINI Cooper-S, Seat Altea, Peugeot 206 GTI and a few others I cant' remember.
Edited by: iamdabe
