(23-01-2012 08:53pm)blacktrees1 Wrote:  Picked up last wednesday (1 month delay) and drove 300 miles on thursday. I've been out of the country since so unfortunatly not had much time to drive or investigate the features / functions.

Prestige SD4, manual, LUX, Orkney, Vibe, Ivory, Style 7s, Privacy

Firstly on the personal choices which are of course subjective....

1. Colour - It is a very nice colour but IMO does not have the wow factor to it. Too much of a blue tint to the grey for my own personal taste. I would have preferred Stornoway. Although I do agree Orkney may suit the car lines better than Stornoway
2. Interior colour - Very Very happy. It was my biggest dilemma and I am pleased I got this spot on. I really wanted a light colour but couldn't get the options with the 'brown' dash and the grey to work together in my own mind.
3. Headlining - Got this one so so wrong. In the showroom and test drives I was worried about the lack of light even though it has a pano roof. I so wish I had gone for the dark headlining to keep the flow of the colours in the car. It's not dark at all. It looks so odd with this combination.
4. Style 7's - looks wise...work awesome with the Orkney in both clean and dirty phases. Comfort - might live to regret it but need some more time to really give an opinion.
5. Privacy - Dark and does what it says on the tin. Works well with the Orkney.

and secondly the most important aspects

1. Drive - lost for words really... It does drive like a car even though I never actually really believed the marketing hype on that front... The driving position is perfect.. handling is superb.
2. Engine - Very smooth..surprisingly so...coming from V6 or straight 6 cars/4x4's then this really is excellent
3. Gearbox - A real drivers gearbox - short sharp shifting.
4. Comfort - Great seats... not yet suffered the issue on the right side I keep reading about.
5. Luxury - Cabin is very well designed. Everything in reach.. great steering controls. The finishing touch's are fantastic.

And for the downside...

1. MPG - Average 31 on a 150 mile motorway journey -WTF !!!! - here's hoping it will improve vastly.
2. Footrest - bearing in mind it is a manual, it is very difficult to find a comfortable position to rest the left foot. My solution to date has been on long motorway journeys move the seat further back and that gives a more comfortable rest. When 'town' driving the seat needs to come forward in order to fully depress clutch. So my solution so far is men seat position 1 for motorway. Memory seat position 2 for 'town' driving adjusted accordingly...Not ideal but it is what it is.

I do need some more time to play with all the cameras, parking, Meridian etc.... before I comment on that side of things. So finally a quick message for those still waiting from someone who was rather sceptical.... it is worth the wait.

(23-01-2012 09:58pm)THEMACS Wrote:  I have a Black Headlining in the BMW Coupe and it is great in that, but thats a Sporty Car, when I have looked at all the pics of Evoques with Black Interior and Black Headlining they just don't look right, its not a Sports Car and made it look dark and smaller not what you want in an Evoque, I thought the black headlining looked good with the Element, liked the contrast.

Anyway, am looking forward to ours coming, soon I hope.

Hope you enjoy more of the car

(24-01-2012 11:58am)Straydox Wrote:  +1 I also prefer the lighter headliner, my current A5 S-Line Cabrio has a black headliner, again a sporty motor and it's right in that - but very dark. The pictures I've seen this far of a Prestige with Vibe suggest that the A pillars are Cirrus, and the B pillar has its lower half in black and the upper half is Cirrus to match the headliner and it looks right.

For the Dynamic and it's sportier interior colour themes then maybe the black headliner would be more appropriate - according to personal taste of course.