Hi there, thanks for the Crosstar review...brilliant! Watched it a couple of times.
I would largely agree with your review. We have owned our 2021 Crosstar for 3 years and done 30,000 miles. There are few things in your dislikes that have not bothered me at all. Those would be passenger seat non height adjustable, has never been mentioned to me in 3 years. It's mostly my wife or me in the passenger seat, she's 5ft 6 and I'm 6ft 2 and it doesn't bother us. We've had no rattles in 3 years, apart from, when the passenger sun visor is down there is a rattle from the mirror cover. Nothing that a blob of blutak won't solve.
We've had the same issues with blinding oncoming vehicles, and use -1.0 most of the time.
Honda service from my local dealer is excellent, but their customer service is patchy to say the least. So room for improvement versus Toyota dealers for sure.
MyHonda+ gave up on it really early on. Just a week ago, tried it again and now seems to be fine.
From your positives list, some highlights are obviously reliability and economy. No faults yet on ours, (fingers crossed)
Legroom in rear, and versatility, just fantastic. Smoothness of drive and visibility too first class. I too love the tech, my view on the adaptive cruise etc is that in my car it feels a bit crude, but works very reliably and predictably. I'm sure later model years will feel a bit smoother, as software gets improved.
My main issue, and this was a dealer / Honda issue rather than about the car itself, was to do with Warranties, and offers made to customers at various times. Highly confusing in hindsight. I now have remedied my warranty shortfall by purchasing another 2 years of warranty, but until a month ago, I thought I had a 5 year warranty from new. Again, not a bad mark against the car.
So mostly - yep - agree with your findings, and thanks for putting that video out there. Great job on the separate video on brake simulator issue too!
Cheers!
