If you are looking to cross band it irritates me that it's not a bit smarter, but its not built to be a repeater:
1. I want to key up right after the contact quits talking but the repeater I'm getting into has to drop before I can key it up to transmit.
2. Locked to a 3 min transmit timeout when crossbanding. Can't remember if it kills the radio or just drops.
3. The memories only have groups, not banks. I wish one could go into group one and if I'm turning the knob it goes back to the beginning of that bank, not on to the next memory channel. The groups are 0-99, 100-199, etc. One can scan groups, but not tune around without reversing which way you are turning the know to go back to the beginning of the group.
Mine sits on the floor in the extended cab of my truck, no overheating, I've got a D710 that's a floater rig and another v71 as a base. Kenwood makes the only dual banders I'll buy right now unless I start horsing around with D-Star.
I can't think of anything else I don't like, Yaesu and Icom have nothing to draw me with. The Yaesu 8800's menus are messed up and the general operation of the radio doesn't make sense, and the only true dual bander Icom makes now is the 2820 and it's ungodly expensive.