Time for the almost year review (10.5 months I believe). A few months ago, this happened:
My dad liked mine so much he ended up buying one himself (his has the 3.6 and luxury package, but otherwise same color combo and everything). Anyway, I have put a touch over 8000 miles on my car since I got it, and a few more comments if anyone is wondering:
1. The seatbelt quality is so poor that there is metal frayed ends sticking out that ruined a few of my nice shirts. I'll have to wrap it in cloth come summer when I'm not wearing a jacket to work everyday.
2. The backseat is very small for a car this size. I read that has to do with it being based on the ATS platform.
3. The transmission has learned my driving style better and doesn't suck as much as I thought it did when I bought it. I also learned this is par for the course with modern turbo motors and autos with way too many gears.
4. Despite being AWD, the car is RWD biased and likes to oversteer in the slippery stuff.
5. The runflats this car came with are awful. Worse than awful actually. I tried to convince my wife to let me take them off and save them for the end of the lease and just throw some better tires on there for now, but she laughed at me.
Other than that, the car has been great. It's very comfortable, surprisingly quick and shockingly good in the turns. The car really does have a split personality. Only one unscheduled trip to the dealer for a CEL light that ended up being a service bulletin for a battery sensor, but I had to drive to South Jersey the next day, so it was nice to put those miles on a loaner anyway
tl;dr - love the car one year later, dad bought the same one, only one issue since getting it