USED Ford S-Max MPV (06 - )

My car

I've developed a love-hate relationship with my S-Max. It handles beautifully, is adequately fast, comfortable, and looks great, is spacious and practical.... yet in many instances it's really horrible and dangerous to drive. Why? Because of the appalling obstruction to vision caused by the steeply raked windscreen pillars, that no amount of seat adjustment can solve.

I didn't notice it too much at first, but in town or entering most roundabouts, vision is dangerously obscured in the 1 o'clock to 2 o'clock area, requiring a considerable neck and head movement to overcome. I'm 6'1", of average build, so this problem must affect most users, and whilst the onus is on me as a driver to look where I'm going, the difficulty in doing so has really started to annoy me.

Other irritations are the gimmicky and ergonomically inferior handbrake lever, the central Convers+ LCD display which is huge and displays very little of any importance without spending ages scrolling through menus, and the ludicrous hazard light function that sees them flash automatically during times of heavy braking. For a car sold on the basis of its "sportiness", surely Ford must have expected some drivers to drive the car hard, and when I'm blasting around empty twisty roads, having the hazard lights flash every time I brake heavily for a tight corner really is incredibly irritating.

So overall; a great handling car spoilt by dreadful vision and silly gimmicks.