Has the Stinger spoiled you?

[falanger]

Since my incident I've been driving a rental Nissan Rogue which if nothing else has taught me to appreciate the Stinger. It gets good gas mileage but other than that it's pretty basic transportation in comparison. It's also made me realize just how much the Stinger has spoiled me.....

Stuff that we should do in day to day driving has become a chore now; holding the brake at lights and drive-thrus, looking down to see how fast I'm going, having to adjust the cruise manually when I'm closing in on cars ahead. All are truly first world problems but it shows how technology has ruined me.

Has the Stinger spoiled you in any way?

 

[nhcowboy28]

I’m spoiled by the light tap melody above my head as the sunroof serenades me.

 

[CKeeler]

I used to think my wife’s car was pretty solid. But after getting used to driving the Stinger and it’s tight suspension and solid road feel. My wife’s car feels like a boat in comparison

 

[Nuthadey]

I’m spoiled by the light tap melody above my head as the sunroof serenades me.

"Your music isn't loud enough!" -Merlinthemad

 

[MerlintheMad]

"Your music isn't loud enough!" -Merlinthemad

Hey, I didn't say that. Get your attribution right. (I only talk about incidence, not solutions.)

The Stinger has spoiled me in every way. Performance, utility/practicality, comfort, style, soundroom quality. Magnitudes more of all that than any vehicle I've owned before.

 

[Nasscar]

What Merlin said!!

 

[OliverNuther]

I hopped in the wife’s Cerato yesterday just to move it a couple of metres.

Having to look at her fob to find the unlock button annoyed me.
Having to rummage around under the seat looking for a lever to move her seat back annoyed me.
Having to find the ignition key on her key ring annoyed me.
Having to manually disengage the parking brake annoyed me.
Doing it all again in reverse order after I’d moved the car annoyed me.

Thank God I was only moving it off the street and into our driveway. I think I would have stroked out if I had actually driven it in traffic.

 

[Flameangel]

Drove my Hubby's Cerato, Adjust seat manually, his ignition start button is on the opposite side to the Stinger for some reason so that I tend to aim for the wrong area. Then he has a manual hand brake that if I forget to take off sounds an alarm and initially I would be looking around thinking what the hell is that.
It's his work car and daily runaround, because his work yard is dusty the car looks dirty and after getting into it from my basically spotless Stinger, I told him it's kinda embarrassing.
Good thing about it, you can park in small car spots and it is a zippy little thing but nothing on the Stinger.

 

[NS_Stinger]

It has spoiled me in a few departments (mostly performance amd steering feel) but elements of my last couple of Acura's were better.

 

[Moses]

I let the wife drive it to work the other day. She normally rolls around in her company car that I'm not allowed to drive, so that left me driving my off road toy to work. 93 Isuzu Rodeo lifted, lockers, etc, etc. Talk about a shock to the system after rolling around in the Stinger for the past month. Manual EVERYTHING. Not to mention since its jacked up to the sky and has big ass tires on it, it doesn't really play nice on the road, yeah, I would say the Stinger has spoiled me a bit.

 

[P22Tyler]

I've definitely been spoiled by the power.

But mark me down as someone who would actually prefer a manual parking brake.

 

[Bigbikes]

Love mine it's soooo nice to drive and everyone stares..thinking WTF's that

 

[antne]

I'm spoiled by the torque that's "there" under the right foot on demand.

 

[Blingen]

So I have progressed my career to the point I now get a company car--and no it is not a stinger. While I am waiting for it to be made/sourced I have been doing weekly rentals. I had a 2020 kia soul for a week. lane keeping and blind spot monitoring. They performed close to the kia. 2020 toyota corolla. Adaptive cruise control was ok. The active lane keeping was horrible. It had trouble reading markings on concrete roads and if left alone it favored the middle lines making you come dangerously close to other cars. It was definitely a ping pong ball effect. 2020 nissan rogue. It was nice. Lane departure warning that notified you way too late. Active front collision that worked too slow. The blind spot monitoring worked but I think it was designed by an english butler. The chimes are so low and the lights so soft, I half expected it to say "excuse me sir, could I trouble you..."
I did approach a truck and start to slide right up to it and I had to be within 3 feet before the warning bell came on. With all of them they were not even close to the stinger. Kudos to the kia soul with the active lane keeping. It was on par with the stinger. I have been sneaking my stinger into the road trips and getting reimbursed. I have put about 10k miles on it this way. And worth every mile driven. Especially all the cars that come flying up beside me to look at the car and see what it is. Then see their expression when i put it in sport flooring the pedal and go right past them

 

[westcoastGT]

I’m spoiled by the light tap melody above my head as the sunroof serenades me.

..................but , how do really feel ............?? I hear you brother !!

 

[westcoastGT]

Hey, I didn't say that. Get your attribution right. (I only talk about incidence, not solutions.)

The Stinger has spoiled me in every way. Performance, utility/practicality, comfort, style, soundroom quality. Magnitudes more of all that than any vehicle I've owned before.

..............cant shag in it like a van though Brother Merlin ?? , and judging by the prodigeny of your loins , the van had some shaggin time ??? Bawaaaaaa

 

[Revvdmedia]

I like to compare my Stinger to my Mustang. In slightly different planets, you can consider them competitors at least RWD to RWD, albeit the Mustang tries a bit harder for sporty while the Stinger tries a bit harder for GT.

Price wise, MSRP would have been the same between the two if I had automatic on the Mustang. With that said, the quantifiable gains in the Stinger when compared directly:

Navigation
HUD
Better quality interior materials
AWD
Adaptive suspension
Sunroof
Much better stereo with more speakers
360 degree cameras
Blind spot monitoring
Adaptive cruise
Speedometer in the gauge cluster screen
Better steering feel
Memory seats with power driver bolsters (I like this a lot)

Features I gained that don't work:
Rain sensing wipers (that ice up in winter)

Features I gained that I didn't want
2 extra doors (I like coupes)
Rattles and noises like the Mustang, except these started from nearly day 1, the Mustang started off drum tight.

Things I lost:
Limited slip differential (because AWD model)
Clutch pedal and gear rower
The V8 SOUND
Line lock
A little power, easily gained back and then some with a 400 dollar mild tune

So basically, a Stinger with all the additions, subtract what I didn't want (ESPECIALLY NOISES), add a LSD, manual and v8 with more power, well then I'd be spoiled! Maybe a Genesis coupe, if a very appealing one comes out in the future?

 

[MerlintheMad]

..............cant shag in it like a van though Brother Merlin ?? , and judging my the prodigeny of your loins , the van had some shaggin time ??? Bawaaaaaa

That is ancient history and there are no written records. Memory and imagination blend this long after events.

 

[GenesisG70]

Mustangs have this old school shitty interiors that I cannot stand.

 

[Revvdmedia]

Mustangs have this old school shitty interiors that I cannot stand.

The overall material quality of materials in the Mustang is lower than the Stinger. The Stinger has more soft touch surface area than the Mustang, for sure. The leather in the Stinger is prone to show creases, in my opinion rather easily, but the "premium" leather in the Mustang was prone to tears, unlike the Stinger from my experience.

As for build, my Stinger has a few key areas I wish didn't make noise (sunroof, occasional hatch, door seals, a random muted buzz on the driver side somewhere and the occasional ticks from plastics), but after 3 years, it seems like EVERYTHING in the Mustang was making noises - door panels, glovebox, above the gauge cluster, C pillars, cracking noises in the rear in winter, the shifter would buzz, it developed a popping noise in the rear end somewhere...and then there were the weird issues like the front edge of the underside of the trunk would end up completely stripped of its paint because of dirt between the seal and the trunk, it stripped the paint down to bare metal, or other areas of the trunk with scuffs because it would hit the rear bumper, and no amount of adjustment seemed to fix it.

My perception is that the build quality on the Stinger is much above the Mustang, but I can't see it being to the level of German, but it's also cheaper than German cars, so something has to give.

For me, the Stinger has spoiled me for features for the price, performance is good, quality needs improvement.