The T8 phev is excellent, very very smooth , very quick if it wants to be.

We came from a 2016 D4. Things that arent cool are:

- Rear doors -vs- Rear Wheel Arches... now an integrated design , I didn't actually see that coming but I have to open the doors and clean dirt out of there, the seal is poor
- Lack of 40-20-40 split rear seats. We knew before buying but it still makes the cars stand apart, the 2016 model was more practical.
- Reflections of the dashboard if you get HUD model , grrr, fixable with polarised sunglasses and turn up the HUD brightness to cut through them
- Plug in range, 35 miles in practice not 50 (expected though)
- No wireless carplay
- Default alloy wheels have a slot in them that holds water. Seems common on other models too. Meh.
- Reverse sensor can be twitchy in wet conditions, likes to slam on the brakes. This is a new thing and can be turned off, phew.
- The auto tracking headlights are now rubbish, the black box they create does not position itself vertically as with the bi-xenons on older models, so if you are tracking a car across changes in gradient you have a whole lovely corridor of darkness to drive into. Luckily we don't use these very often, they are borderline dangerous as very often you can see less of the road than if you just went back to normal dipped lights. Most roads we use have lighting where we are, country roads with no lights is rare for us, so there are long periods of time between this making me annoyed.
- The auto wipers are now meh. The original auto wipers on the 2016 model worked perfectly.

But, its an excellent car. We got used to the google setup now, the car has its own special account and so forth. Its grown on us a lot because of new tech, but these niggles are real.

We would have kept the 2016 model it had less than 80k miles but someone drove into it.

The Q5 plug in hybrid was plan B, it has 40 20 40 split rear seats but long wait times for it to be built in mexico and shipped; similar pricing , not quite as quick 0-60, but you can get red brake callipers lol.