New Karoq, first impressions

Hi everyone, picked up our new Karoq yesterday. 1.5 tsi, SE Drive DSG. Have to say it’s a lovely car. These are my fist impressions and a few comparisons to our previous car, a Mercedes B200 DCT. First of the engine in the Skoda sounds like a sewing machine compared to the merc whose engine sounded like a bag of spanner’s and sounded very raucous when revved. The DSG gearbox seems to change gear much more precisely than Mercedes DCT box, always seemed to slur into gear although you couldn’t feel the change. I am a little dubious about the mapping on the sat nav, put in our address tot come home and it said our address was off road, interesting as Apple, Google, Waze, TomTom, Garmin and Mercedes sat nav had no trouble, although it did bring us to our road, also coming round the M25 it told us to keep right to exit onto the M11, had we done so it would have kept us on the M25, what it should have said was keep left onto to junction and then keep right to go onto the M11 northbound. I’ll have to see if there is an update. A little disappointed they have done away with the removable boot light/torch, I thought was a neat touch. The boot floor is a little cheap and there is no way to keep it up, on the merc there was a strap you could hook up and on our VW Polo there are clips to keep the floor up, with the Karoq you either take it out completely or struggle underneath it. I know they are not the only manufacturer to do it but why are the interior reading light buttons not illuminated, it seems odd that they expect you to put a light onto be able to find the switch for the lights. I would say the ride quality is better than the Merc, handling I haven’t tried yet. It drives very nicely and seems to have plenty of power, although as it’s not run in I’m being very gentle with it. Not convinced having the cruise control on the indicator stalk is better that the standard VW controls on the steering wheel, but definitely better than the Merc system of having another stalk just below the indicator stalk, the amount of times we have flashed the headlights instead of putting the cruise control on! Looking forward to seeing how it goes once its ,all settled in.