but sadly ur wife doesn't like her stelvio and i thought u were trying to get rid of it. not anymore?
The whole situation was driven by me needing to cut costs and the car market giving me the opportunity to do so. I traded a pink-wrapped with chalk interior loaded 21 Macan Turbo for a loaded '22 Ocra GT Stelvio Veloce that the transporter delivered four days ago. I get her perspective and that she is not a fan of this change, but after months of working with her to find something the best idea I had was a Stelvio. I told her I'd take the new Stelvio and trade my Giulia for something for her if she found an SUV in the $40k-$50k price range she actually wanted. The other super-limiting factor is she still has it in her head she can go to a lot, test drive a car, and take it home...especially difficult given her super-specific wants when it comes to interior color. Like maybe ordering an X3 would be okay but she has to see it in person first. Really her biggest hang-ups are not liking change, the Stelvio is not wrapped pink, and the interior color. She took the Stelvio on a short out of town trip and is having a super hard time figuring out how anything works...like hitting the hill-decent button to turn on the cruise. I do feel bad, but even stuff like that is so much better than the Macan, which was kind of a button/interior disaster. And for my part having a daily-driver SUV that doesn't have every surface covered in white leather (even lower door cards) is a relief.
Closest we came was Tucson. She loved it but too slow (fair) and could never test drive a torquier hybrid version. She told me to pull the trigger on an EV6, but it was a couple weeks after the initial wave hit dealers from Korea and at that point I couldn't realistically get one with the interior she wants.
When she gets back from her little trip I have a Squadra tune ready to go and GTA badges that will both make her a little happier, along with paint correction and coatings. And I need to figure out if it's actually broken or just the lane-keep stuff turned way up because I got a stream of texts about how it's broken and all over the highway, beeping, and is uncontrollable (I haven't driven it).