There is a smooth wraparound digital panel atop the dashboard, which appears suitably elegant and speaks volumes to KGM’s designs on establishing itself on the higher finish of the ‘worth’ automotive market, as do the copper-effect trim panels.
However the premium sheen is well wiped away. The steering wheel – conspicuously nonetheless carrying the outdated Ssangyong insignia – is quite too slim of rim and coated in a shiny fake leather-based that is neither slick nor supple; the seat bases are flat and firmly unforgiving; the plastics are universally scratchy and skinny; and the bodily switchgear, glad although we’re to see some, simply lacks the reassuring tactility that you’d anticipate for near-£40,000.
The infotainment appears the half graphically and its menus are organized extra intuitively than in lots of an infuriatingly configured rival, but it surely’s pretty sluggish to reply at occasions and we needed to make use of the outdated IT Crowd repair just a few occasions when the audio wouldn’t play. There’s no wi-fi smartphone mirroring right here, both, which looks like a dropped ball.
After which there’s the bonging. Left the engine working when you nip out to place your coat within the boot? Bong. Pace restrict altering up forward? Bong. Automobile in a neighbouring county brakes immediately? BONG BONG BONG.
This is not a phenomenon distinctive to KGM, after all: the EU’s new GSR2 security rules have imposed upon motorists a lifetime of deafening and unhelpful digital warnings. However different vehicles make it a lot simpler to deactivate these programs, and several other occasions have been we berated by the Torres’s irascible driver help system with out actually being instructed why.
