That review was a bit dodgy. No, I'm saying that because of sour grapes, but I found that the criticism of the Calais was duplicated on others, but blown off as less important.
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The Calais:
The five-speed automatic gearbox was always reasonably responsive, but too often seemed unsure about which gear it should be in, something that was drawn into sharp comparison by the Ford’s superbly managed ZF gearbox.
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The Camry:
The Aurion’s six-speed automatic gearbox, with sequential shifting available, is smooth and responsive, although it does tend to hunt around a bit when trying to maintain a certain speed under load.
It’s a characteristic common to quite a few multi ratio gearboxes these days, and again, usually due to not enough torque available at some throttle points.
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Its okay really because everyone does it
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The Calais:
All very commendable and the safety offerings are no less than you should expect these days, but they still mean that the VE range has only a four-Star ANCAP rating.
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The Accord:
Continuing the safety theme Accord also offers standard ESP, front, side and curtain airbags, ISOFIX preparation for the kid’s seats and a four star EuroNCAP rating. Not a bad deal for the $46,990 asking price though I’d not settle for any thing less by today’s standards.
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Well you can get it (aside from ISOfix which is no better than normal anchor points) for less if you buy the Calais. In fact the same standard of safety, number of airbags and ESP are standard on even the base Commodore models. Curtain airbags on the Accord are not. Wanker.
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Originally Posted by CA
The Calais:
What’s hard to take, when you look at the competition, is the relative ‘poverty’ feel of the Calais interior.
There’s a mono-colour LCD screen with no Sat/Nav available, part leather upholstery – the rest offer full leather, and way too much dull, grey/black plastic for a car that is supposed to be almost at the top of the Commodore range.
Remember, to get rid of some of these criticisms you have to pay $8000
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Wrong CA. Full leather is $3000 as part of a package which also adds 8 way electric heated seats and heated electric mirrors with memory.
Full colour Satellite Navigation is a 2K option, whilst turn by turn is 1300.
Some people just love to bitch. ....no not me.