No model selected yet but it will be a station wagon with fold flat seats and a comfy ride. With our cats dying off, we’re getting ready for some long distance touring and looking for a good turnpike cruiser.
I test drove the Buick Regal Tourx and the Nissan Murano, both in the pimp deluxe trim level. Both are pretty nice cars.
I was expecting to like the Murano better than the Tourx because I had previously rented a circa 2010 Murano and liked it but it was not to be. The 2019 Murano has massive blindspots (this coming from an FJ Cruiser owner). The center infotainment console is a mess on the Murano with way too much clutter to be useful while driving. GM did a much better job with the design of their console, nice and clean. The 360 camera/sensor feature on the Murano is interesting but again the display of the information is too cluttered to be practical in real world driving. The display included a little diagram down in the corner which flashed lights around a diagram of the car indicating where obstacles were located. Getting rid of the rest of the crap on the screen and making that diagram bigger would have been a much better approach.
The Murano has a speed limit sensor that the salesman claimed used the forward camera to read speed limit signs (as opposed to getting the info from the navigation system database). Again, an interesting technology but no way in hell do I want it documented that my car told me what the speed limit was.
The Murano definitely has the edge on acceleration and overall handling. The Buick had a smoother ride and less road noise.
So now I'm looking to see what else is out there that meets our criteria (fold flat seats and comfy, but not OMG expensive).