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So this is my first post to this forum, but the fourtitude forums for the Q3 have crickets chirping. This seems to be a much more involved community! I'm Sébastien, and I live in Burlington, Vermont. When I saw the refreshed exterior and the Hainan Blue color in person at the NYIAS I knew that it was time to get one. I ordered my 2016 Q3 back in April the day that ordering became available, and it arrived last week on the 6th. It was the first 2016 in the state and the only one that the dealership here has received so far. The color is so bright and polarizing in person, and I love it. It's very difficult to capture the brightness in a photograph, however. I got the Prestige trim level with the sport package and black headliner. I love the small updates to the interior with more silver bits that help brighten it up a bit. The LED headlights at night are awesome and the new all-weather lights that replaced the fog lights also function as cornering lights at night, which is cool. I'm so excited to finally have the car, and I look forward to many adventures with it!
. I love where I live but appears that being a northwesterner is working against me on this one. I had my order submitted early as well but it took a while for it to be entered into the system so it was official in early May and I'm still sitting here without any confirmation of an arrival date and setting my sights out a month or more. Very pretty color and great to see more pics from actual owners. Please be sure to let us know how you like the Q3 as you get more time behind the wheel and discover more than those little test drives allow. Going through this experience makes me wonder about the value of the dealer in today's world. We get so much of our information on-line and rely less and less on the dealer to provide intel. One of their key roles is to allow us to experience a vehicle in person. Yet often they don't have many of a given model in stock - so you can't see the specific combination you are after and the test drive consists of a pretty short and incomplete experience (I guess you could press for more testing..and I give props to a local Jeep dealer that gave us the keys and told us to take the car out and drive around as we would like). Typically you end up spending a lot of money on something that you cross your fingers and hope you will love when it arrives. Wish there was a better way.... OK enough mental wandering...enjoy that new blue Q3
