Grandma Car Forsure

Just drove a 2013 Captiva across USA, NY to Seattle. Here's a few impressions: Seating is good, with good visibility. Quite a few things started to show up as time went on that made me crazy. The first is that the 4 cylinder equipped ECO 2.4L is just fine for around town, but do not try to use this for hilly freeway driving. This vehicle needs more than just a 4 cylinder 2.4L motor. It's work to keep this vehicle up to speed in hilly terrain. It's fine if you live in a valley without hills, but try to drive 70mph in hilly terrain turns driving this Captiva into a real chore. Maybe if this vehicle had a 6 cylinder with at least mid 200's horsepower, it would be a better driver. If you use a iPhone or similar, console layout is maddening. Sure there's a cubby to set the iPhone in, but it slopes away from you so you cannot see the screen. Vehicle designers this is a big mistake. The outlet for plugging in a recharging adapter is down at the bottom of a sliding lid center compartment. So if you are driving with sunglasses on, you cannot see it. GPS map screen content is unusable. XM/Radio controls are confusing and hard to use. After five days of driving, I think it finally got figured out. Shouldn't be this hard to use & interpret.