Faults:

Cracked heated mirror, which was replaced under warranty.

General Comments:

Great compact car!

The SX4 is an amazing car to drive with lots of standard features like brake assist, electronic brake force distribution, 4 wheel disc brakes, roof rack, standard 6 air bags, steering mounted controls.

The car handles very well, suspension is well tuned and driving is very smooth. The AWD is very good, and it handles well in snow and icy conditions.

Overall, it is a very well built car, at highway speeds of 120km/hr there is no vibration / wobbling unlike some other compact cars that I have driven. There is a solid feel to the car. Braking is fantastic, thanks to the disc brakes and EBD!

CVT can be a bit annoying at times, but you get used to it. Gas tank is small, only 45 litres, which means more stops at gas stations.

I am really surprised at why this car does not sell as well as some other makes.

Faults:

The CVT transmission on Auto-transmission mode goes to 6th gear on 50 KM/H, which is one of the points of CVT gears, however it causes you drive an under-powered car unless you lower the gear manually (which causes higher fuel consumption).

I'm an extremely fuel efficient driver, my cars always consume lower than company's claims on fuel consumption, however with this car, that was not the case; fuel consumption announced by the company is strongly false! I used the car in any mode you can think of, on manual transmission (standard), Automatic mode, 2WD, 4WD, and I could never drive this car with less than 12.5 L/100KM in city, which is close to my SUV's fuel consumption, while its engine size and weight wise are way smaller than my SUV.

General Comments:

The only reason that I bought this car was to lower my fuel consumption while being able to use the car in 4wd manual whenever I want. I like its paddle shifters and size of the car, but it turned out that this car consumes way more than what company has claimed, which turned me down about the car.

If you know how to change the gear manually, you can get a good power out of its engine when you need, but in Auto-transmission mode, because of its CVT transmission, you think that you are driving a 750CC-engine car, which is good actually in cities, in that you can't drive more than 50Km/hour anyhow.

The engine is quite noisy, personally I love the sound of engine, but if you like a car with no sound, it's a good idea for you to listen to the engine sound on test drive, to see if you can stand it or not.

Overall, it's not a SUV in terms of height, does everything that a light SUV should do, but consumes like a mid size SUV in the city.