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BYD BY ATTO2 review of car 2026-10

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By Julian H. Stacey

I drove a Plug in hybrid, I didn't like it:

• Stealing/ fighting me for the steering wheel, particulalrly nasty driving round sharpish junction curve on autoroute round Brussels, in direction Calais to Aachen
• fonts minute on screen, needed glasses to see if in mode EV or HEV etc,
• it kept coming up with crap warnings,
• A large full page of small font excrement on the 2nd giant [GPS/android] screen. Impossible to read all screen excrement while car in motion, but only only times it came up to read was while car in motion
• Final insult was after it kept distracting me, & giving tiny errors I could not read without reaching for glasses, & stealing/fighting me for the steering, it kept telling me to concentrate on road! If it had been a human repeatedly distracting me from driving, I'd have dumped the human as a safety hazard.
• As it was a hire vehicle & I was on an urgent mission, I had neither time nor incentive to turn the excrement off, beyond learning how to turn whole centre screen off.
• Waste of blank space those tiny fonts on driver's screen, pointless inaccurate simulation of other objects adjacent, particularly inaccurate in motion, Doubtless the fools who commissioned it thought it was cute, & a free spin off from software headed toward driver-less vehicles..
• Also another massive waste of space on car body, Fat pig of an SUV, Big car outside, smallish inside,
• awfuly bad rear view, part compensated by good camera & screen.
• I ignored the big centre screen inc. & all apps except finding off button, no time to learn transient stuff on a hire car.
• I didn't find & learn GPS/Navi, I used a screen stick on TomTom & my Android with mapfactor.com navigator
• No USB-A sockets. Just 2 USB-C & an inductor for smart phones that can use it. (discovered when I was driving & my screen stick on TomTom GPS kept flattening its battery. I realised I'd taken one of my cheap car cigarette socket to USB-A converters that only deliver 0.5Amp, & I'd left at home the TomTom adapter that delivers more current.

• Chinese manufacturer. Substantual import tax in EU, maybe into UK soon too.
• Plugging in the hybrid each night at own garage to charge was only nice thing I recall, saved on petrol.
• Dashboard displayed 910 km = on full tank,
• 30% battery is what it goes down to in EV mode, that auto switches to HEV mode to burn petrol.
• 5.7 km / 100 litre,
• wheel pressures in uk: 225, 237, 237, 245 : pumped to 245 = 36 psi = 2.45 bar