For context: I'm a driver with thirty-plus years of driving experience and a spotless driving record. I have driven cars, pickup trucks and SUVs. I also have truck/bumper-pull trailer towing experience including above average skills moving a trailer in reverse. With years of experience navigating mid-Atlantic/east coast highways with living cargo, I have both extensive mileage and an excessive mind and eye for safety.

The window post blind spots in this car are simply horrible and managed best and only by supreme driver vigilance. After you scare the living daylights out of yourself a few times after losing an entire vehicle the size of a garbage truck or that entire family in a crosswalk does one really start to understand that it was not "just me" trying to acclimate to a new car. I'm at 58k-plus miles. five years, zero incidents, many scares and gray hairs later, and I haven't dropped my guard yet. You need to look like a bobbing weaving idiot in your cockpit before feeling safe enough to change lanes at highway speed - god forbid it's three lanes or more, or an urban haven with tons of turns in pedestrian meccas. Not a good first car for anyone who has not been driving long enough to develop sound defensive driving awareness and habits!