The cup holder is a problem, I would have preferred a spare, and entering the vehicle is "tough", but one feature that I really don't understand is the power door lock. The button only works if the key is in the ignition. If I could only get in the habit of pushing it prior to removing the key (of course the door would have to be open) for it to work.

 

I agree!!!!

 

I love the way it looks.....it is beautiful..... But it is a piece of crap....... The clearcoat is bad...... the plastic inside is cheap.... the worst.... I makes all kind of noises........ The stereo.....God..... I installed a $78 dollar stereo and it sounds much better then the original stereo..... Navigation sucks........... Cup holder...I don't care about that...... Layout of the switches is stupid............ No spare tire.............. etc...etc....much more things to mention here.....

But I still love it.............. Why...? same reason you love yours.............. be realistic..... the car sucks.........

Something else....price is going down like crazy....I does not retain the value.............going down .....down...down..... I have seen in my are.... 2006 roadsters ...few miles.....for $16,000..... amazing..... amazing....

 

.........NO.........NO.......IT..........HAS...... ...A.............QUALITY...........
..........PLASTIC..........IN..........TER........ ...IOR................................

 

The button that disables the power window buttons is 6" from the power window buttons. Not exactly child-proof! I bet they could have put that button to better use...

I can't disagree with a lot of what's been said in this thread, but this car really is a special blend of pretty, quality, performance, uniqueness, and value.

DennisW

 

Driver's side power seat does work with ignition off, when driver side door is opened. Find it very useful in getting in and out gracefully. Especially when wearing a skirt!

 

Did someone mention that the door has to be open to get in or get out of the car? No, don't laugh, I mean open, really open ..... ALL the way open and if some jerk parks to close to you, and you can't get the door open ALL the way, you have to do an imitation of a fat lady getting into a girddle.

 

The only bad thing about the Crossfire I have found is that there are so damn few around here that There is no local club chapter. No meetings, no tech sessions no spare part sales. I have all that with MG, Sunbeam, Mini and bikes. perhaps some day. Till then the Dragon. Gary

 

Funny... I don't have this problem.

 

I think it will unlock your door when you shut it. It's a safety feature to help prevent you from locking your keys in your car. Why don't you just use the remote?

 

The bad:

-No AUX jack for a luxury car of 2005, seriously! Ford Focus had them standard in their models.

-Its not the concept. So no 1-wiper(prob a good thing), didn't retain the stacked headlights angled like a Morgan, and no allusion of a split rear window.

-Since mine was bought used I see some wear like the gray color coming off of the plastic area near the buckle clip/ side console. I mean why couldn't it have been molded grey plastic to begin with? Isn't it cheaper than black plastic painted a cheap looking grey?

-No psudo-rear seats like in the Lexus SC, Audi TT, and other small sports cars allowing for "in a pinch" passenger seating. I mean in the coupes, that huge rear hatch area could fit a 3rd seat. Albiet it would be at the cost of cargo room but who cares, you could still put groceries on that 3rd seat.

 

Radio? If so AGREED !

Its really pretty close for a concept car but I see your point and the painted plastic parts.. Agreed, they could have done better.

Yeah, who wants a plain old two seat sports car! Oh yeah, ME....
Sorry but on this point I couldn't disagree more.

 

But I already got 3 coupes.(Poor me, right LOL) 2 are 2-seaters. My friends hate how I'm never offering to drive a group somewhere in the Summer. Can't fit'em.

The Summer cars are the Crossfire and Miata. So in size comparison to the Miata the X-fire is large enough to house a seat. Hell, sometimes I wish the Mia had one of those psudo-seats.

 

I get frustrated that my sun visor does not unclip so that i can turn it towards the door window to block out the sun when traveling north and south

 

13Dog, it says you're 26 ... TWENTY-SIX, OMG just wait for another 40 or so years.. you'll understand then.

 

I thought yall might like to remember what the concept looked like! For all of yall that don't know it the designer of the crossfire is Eric Stoddard and he is here on the forum (sometimes) under the name Creator and his pictures are here:
https://www.crossfireforum.org/gallery/showgallery.php/ppuser/4243/cat/500

Xfire33.jpg

 

You all complain too much I just traded mine on a car with - no heater-ac, no top, no power seats, very few buttons, no navigation, it's even harder than the Crossfire to get in an out of not to mention its very easy to get your leg burned on the exhaust pipe, dont even have windshield wipers, like the Crossfire no spare, no power windows (it only has a front window), lots of room for a cup holder but it doesn't have one I could go on but the bottom line is none of this matters if you have one of the coolest cars on the street and that my friends is what each of you has. Mine's just a little louder than yours!

 

lol aside from the cupholder issue, most of the complaints on here are just typical Mercedes Benz traits? I don't see why they'd be complaints, you knew what you were buying.

 

i just bought an amg for what???

 

I can't say that I have any complaints, sure the sound system could be better, but I can change that. Maybe the fog light lenses break easily, but they're cheap and easy to replace. Most of the complaints are either nonpoints or things that can be easily worked around or fixed. Sure maybe that isn't the way most people like to do things, but I'm all for making a car your own, hell if the gauges are so hated, get some different gauges. I personally like mind and have had a blast driving the car, eventually after I pay it off I'll do some performance upgrades or maybe a supercharged v8 conversion but for now the car is great and I love it. No real complaints just enjoying the stares and compliments and the fun of driving and being able to beat most of the other drivers around here in a race. Well I guess one complaint is that I have to think about dumping the gf for some of the ladies that want to go for a spin with me. And who knows maybe a few things will begin to irk me after I've had it longer, but I have my doubts that any of it can't be easily fixed.