charleswrivers
Senior Member
- First Name
- Charles
- Joined
- Nov 3, 2017
- Threads
- 4
- Messages
- 2,078
- Reaction score
- 170
- Location
- Kingsland, GA
- Vehicle(s)
- '14 Odyssey EX-L '18 Civic SI Sedan '94 300zx twin turbo 2001 Ford F-150 Sport
Yeah. I really liked the Mazda 3 I test drove in ‘15 in a lot of ways… but hated the “glued-on-tablet” look they had. It was the first car I test drove like that and more and more cars are going that way. Aesthetically the 9th gen Si I ended up going with that had a integrated infotainment was a layout I liked much better which was carried over to gen 10. I didn’t mind they dumped they 2 tier setup from gen 8 and 9 to gen 10. Gen 9s dash layout was kind of gimmicky too, IMO. The “power meter” and VTEC thing was a bit dumb. That engine has so little character compared to the earlier K20s you just about needed a light to know when VTEC had engaged anyways. Had it kept an earlier K20-variant, I probably would have been less quick it dump it for a gen 10.One other thing and I'll go back to my home at CivicX. Everyone is praising the 11th interior as amazing and I certainly think it's nice looking and well put together. Yet that stuck on tablet looks awful IMO and that flat "retro dash" is "meh" to me. The 10th gen interior isn't as bad as many people make it out to be. I'm out.
Enjoy your 11th gens.
I hated they went with the high tablet look for gen 11. I haven’t been a fan of it in anything I’ve test drove this far. It’s kind of the fad… or maybe trend at this point… to break up the dash line to have this screen stick up and be more in the line of sight. I think it’s a double edged sword. You don’t have to advert your eyes as much from looking out your windshield to see it… but it’s more of a distractor to me as it’s less in my peripheral and more right there as I’m driving.
The retro vents for gen 11… eh. Not a fan of that aesthetic. The round vent thing keeps coming and going and coming back again. It’s just “on” now. Reminds me of a Mercury cougar or something like that. I think the new Mustangs have it too. When folks was to shake a retro tree… in the round vents go. It’d be in no way a deal breaker or anything… just an aesthetic that doesn’t appeal to my eye.
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