Not kit car
If you had £ 45000 to spend on a new car / suv what would you buy also hybrid or full electric
Can I buy a knackered Ford Fiesta for a bag of sand then use the rest of the money to pay off my crippling mortgage and utility bills?
Nissan gtr for 35k, ten grand to maintain it, it'll still be worth 35k when you're done.
Id buy a 10k decent Japanese car and bank the rest
New cars are a depreciating nonsense vanity project.
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Originally posted by coyoteboy
Id buy a 10k decent Japanese car and bank the rest
New cars are a depreciating nonsense vanity project.
Might as well flush the money down the toilet. New cars are a mugs game.
As for a new car if I wasn't paying for it -
1) Tesla model 3 dual motor, probably outside the budget but you asked.
2) MG 3G4 EV
3) VW ID.4
[Edited on 15/1/24 by Mr Whippy]
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Originally posted by Mr Whippy
Might as well flush the money down the toilet. New cars are a mugs game.
As for a new car if I wasn't paying for it -
1) Tesla model 3 dual motor, probably outside the budget but you asked.
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@davidjenkins
Sounds familiar - first company car I had came with the feature that locks all doors as you pull away. Appreciate what the feature's for, but
when you need to collect SWMBO from the station in the rain it was a proper pain. No way of disabling it.
On a main dealer service I mentioned my frustration and they "switched it off" (probably a laptop button press). Made the car significantly
better to live with for 3 years.
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Originally posted by nick205
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@davidjenkins
Sounds familiar - first company car I had came with the feature that locks all doors as you pull away. Appreciate what the feature's for, but when you need to collect SWMBO from the station in the rain it was a proper pain. No way of disabling it.
On a main dealer service I mentioned my frustration and they "switched it off" (probably a laptop button press). Made the car significantly better to live with for 3 years.
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Originally posted by David Jenkins
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Originally posted by Mr Whippy
Might as well flush the money down the toilet. New cars are a mugs game.
As for a new car if I wasn't paying for it -
1) Tesla model 3 dual motor, probably outside the budget but you asked.
I had a Model Y (model 3 on steroids!) dual-motor on loan last year - quick, nimble, but I found it very frustrating to drive. Everything is fine... as long as you drive the way it thinks you should drive. Making minor changes to the car's setup involved 30 minutes faffing with the screen. For example, every time I got in, it decided that I needed the heated seats on - as this was in June or July I wasn't too keen! It was reasonably easy to find out how to turn them off, but I never managed to find the setting that cancelled the default. There were a few other trivial things like this that added up to a significant frustration.
Oh - and they've now got rid of the indicator stalk so you can't indicate easily if you're in a significant turn.
[Edited on 15/1/24 by David Jenkins]
I'm sure if you own the car for a while you'd work out how to configure these more subtle features. My Volvo use to auto lock all the time
which was really annoying, until I looked up YouTube and found how to switch it off, dead easy when you know how.
There's no such thing as a perfect car and what car fits you, completely depends on your requirements not what someone else would like. I listed
the EV's I'd like but I'd still need an ICE one, well for now at least.
My disco 3 has so many things like that, like needing 2 clicks of the key to open back doors, where the lever inside doesn't unlock doors etc. I hate that you can't change it. Might Google to see if you actually can!
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Originally posted by JoelP
My disco 3 has so many things like that, like needing 2 clicks of the key to open back doors, where the lever inside doesn't unlock doors etc. I hate that you can't change it. Might Google to see if you actually can!
I enjoy the fact that Nissan put a self-test sequence into my 370Z which actuates a few of the electrical items like fans, wipers etc from the control system so you can test them while under the bonnet alone. Very useful. But I can't enable/disable a bunch of features the dealer can, like auto-roll-up of the windows from the remote.