The wait is finally over. Got our Shiny Metallic Blue X yesterday (06/30)
Just wanted to share some initial impressions from first 60 odd miles of driving.
The GOOD:
1. The car is totally worthy of falling in love. I fell in love when I first test drove it - fell in love again. My wife, on the the other hand did not test drive the car before and she was not impressed with my exuberance during the wait time. Before we left home she said she loves her Acura a lot and she will keep driving that and I should not ask / force her to drive the X. I smiled and said yes. During the delivery experience she sat in the second row while I was in the driver's seat getting the delivery experience she got all excited and wanted to get to be the one to be in the drivers seat. So we traded places. The delivery specialist we got was super awesome. She told him that she had never driven the car before and he immediately offered to go on a test drive to get her familiarized with the car. This gave me a chance to sit in the back seats ( more on that experience later). She was like a kid in candy store once she got over her initial trepidation. Even after multiple proclamations from her that she would never use Autopilot prior to yesterday, she went ahead and tried it and came away super impressed. She is in love with the car so much so that she left the Acura to me while she has taken the X to work today. I can foresee some deep negotiations happening on who gets to take the X in future
. My 3 yr old's first response was "This is magic"
Her second sentence was "Daddy, why did you get the magic car, did you get it for me?" Precious!!! Now she is gotten it into her head that since the car has wings it needs to fly and she keeps asking me to make it fly.
2. The fit and finish - Even though I had print outs of the checklist from this forum I did not really go through it. It was impossible to be clinical about the delivery process when you are so excited. However, I had memorized the key areas to look for and made sure I inspected them. Alignment all around was spot on. Minor seal protrusion on top for FWD which the DS said is normal. It didn't bother me much.
3. Seats - I am glad we went with 6 seats instead of 7. I am 5' 11 and I found the last row to be the most comfortable to sit in when I stretch my legs out in the middle opening. If I made the second row seatbacks straight I could fit my legs within the seat walls without crushing my knees (barely). If I moved the second row seat a little forward to accomodate my legs then I got the seat not latched warning. But if we are going on long trips and if DW is driving then I would sit in the last seat with legs stretched. With an airplane neck pillow I can even have a nice nap there. Nothing to write home about the second row seats expect that they were decent and cleaning mess made by my kids in the first minute they were in the car a breeze with the mono-post design.
4. Doors - Have been deliberately and sometimes not closing and opening all the doors in various ways. So far so good. Even when I manually did not close properly (due to fear of closing too hard) the mechanics pulled the door in properly and latched. Auto-present seems to be able to sense obstacles (walls and door in garage) and open accordingly. I was pleasantly surprised to see that the front doors stopped when I accidentaly pressed the brake while the FWD was closing. It seems like a SW update was done to prevent the collision that other have reported. The screen did some weird graphic thing with red proximity warning on the front door path, stopped the door for a brief moment and when the FWD closed resumed to close. It all happened so fast before I had a "Oh Sh##" response to stepping on the brake while FWD was closing.
5. Driving - Autopilot = awesome. Also 90D is plenty power to pass or show-off. Stepping on the pedal pushes you in the seat. Glad didn't get seduced to spend an extra $30K.
The NOT SO GOOD:
1. Wind noise - The moment we got on the freeway and were over 50mph the wind noise became loud. It seems to be coming from all over as if surround sound. Our MDX is quieter. Will keep monitoring to see if this warrants a SC visit.
2. FWD - not fully opening in the garage even though there are no obstacles on the side or top. Have raised the garage railings to 98" and have Jackshaft opener. Have to figure / fix this one. It opens fully outside but does umbrella mode inside the garage. Bumped my head in the morning while cleaning the car.
Also, I think the firmware version is older as it still shows umbrella mode as an option for FWD on the screen.
Will add more observations once I get to spend more time. Have a couple of day trips planned for the long weekend so will have some updates.
