On the road For the first few days with the GV70 we drove to town for a bit of shopping, drove to school for my other job and basically tootled around doing nothing particularly exciting. That said, it was practical, comfortable and considering it’s size it was simple to park and manoeuvre, and overall very easy to live with. The latter part of the week, however, I managed to escape and enjoyed a few adventures. On the motorway I selected cruise and we simply glided along with the tech doing a grand job of slowing me down, warning about other vehicles in my blind spots, and so on. I do like adaptive cruise control. For the twisty B5105 from Ruthin to Cerrigydrudion in North Wales I selected Sport mode that tightened things up, including the side bolsters in the drivers seat. It isn’t as nimble as the Cupra Formentor, but it isn’t meant to be, the GV70 is more of a luxury SUV, but it’s more than capable of handling fast corners. With 207bhp on tap it isn’t sluggish, far from it, it’ll get you from 0-60mph in just 7.6 seconds and 31-62mph in 6.3 seconds, which it does quietly and smoothly. Despite riding on 21” wheels road noise is well subdued, even with the radio off it’s well muted, very calming. Reversing isn’t something I usually mention in my reviews, however the GV70 has, of course, parking sensors all-round and a reversing camera are standard, but it also has a neat trick where the reversing lights illuminate lines on the ground behind the car, so it's easier to see kerbs in the side mirrors at night. On the subject of lights, LED headlights are fitted to all GV70s, and if you tick the Innovation pack it adds upgraded matrix lights that adjust the shape of their beams so they provide as much light as possible without dazzling oncoming drivers. Fuel wise, over the week of mixed driving the computer told me that I had achieved 38mpg, which to be fair is pretty good going considering that for most of the time I was using the majority of its 207bhp. If I’d chosen to take it easy, official WLTP figures suggest I could have reached the dizzy heights of 54mpg, but that was never going to happen! THEMUDLIFE.CO.UK
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