For all the people thinking of buying a stepway and worrying about wind noise or body roll or refinement let me put your mind at ease for the last five years i owned a vauxhall vectra design that had quite a high spec of equipment, but new car time and decided to test drive the stepway on a whim and was very pleasently surprised i do a lot of rural driving with lots of tight twisty bends and the stepway handles aswell as vectra did can corner at 60mph with no more body roll than you would expect from any other car in that class,roof rail wind noise is not noticable at 60 dont know about higher speed i have also driven the nissan qashqai and found they drive very similar and the diesel engines were as noisey as each other this is because renault nissan share technology and renault have used the 1.5 engine for years so it will be bullet proof but stepway is half the price tag of either nissan or renault cartur for a reason though there are many other bells and whistles on higher priced cars ie reversing cameras and such like its all about what you want to pay for so my advise to anyone reading reviews of the stepway is dont bother and go drive the car for a pleasent surprise. I opted for the petrol model as i always do,
got delivery of mine this week
and although i have only driven 200 miles so far im very impessed.. hope this helps
