BMW and M Power Owners
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Fair enough, decent! In a lot of European countries, 50g/km CO2 is the cut-off for low/no tax. Again, this is achieved by fitting a bigger battery. Audi really ****** up with that.
Totally agree. I went with the Q7 because of the sliding, three individual rear seats. Makes a huge difference. Also I reckon the interior is nicerHonestly the new 45e range of BMWs seem like the best of both worlds. 6 cylinder engines mated to a decently sized battery for proper hybrid driving support in a bigger car
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Totally agree. I went with the Q7 because of the sliding, three individual rear seats. Makes a huge difference. Also I reckon the interior is nicer
I can see the sliding rear seats being handy but I don’t personally share the same view on the interior.
With the new direction of touch everything, there’s less to differentiate between entry level cars and premium cars
How have you found the touch screen interaction vs buttons?
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The tax windows coming in needs some
A) time to react and engineer to
B) in this case UK centric and often not enough to skew a global car.
A) time to react and engineer to
B) in this case UK centric and often not enough to skew a global car.
Honestly touchscreen interaction is a PITA, especially when driving, but you get used to it. The Virtual Cockpit beats BMW’s digital dash hands down though, which makes up for it. It’s swings and roundabouts; you can’t go wrong with either at this end of the spectrum.I can see the sliding rear seats being handy but I don’t personally share the same view on the interior.
With the new direction of touch everything, there’s less to differentiate between entry level cars and premium cars
How have you found the touch screen interaction vs buttons?
3 individual seats v a bench is a big difference when carrying an adult in the middle between 2 isofix car seats, and sliding them forward meant I could fit 4 boxed 19” alloys in the back without having to fold the seats down.
Would I have preferred an X5 if I could have got 16% off list? Probably, but the rear seats was what the wife wanted. And anyway, both are lovely places to be.
BMWs is much better. It’s like Siri; how can almost have a conversation with it. Audi’s is much more old fashioned.
However, writing things like navigation destinations on the lower screen is super useful and quicker than writing on the iDrive wheel.
they're mid stream of updating to the european 60km phev tax threshold - I expect others like bmw ? to follow through otherwise 330e/g20 is dead - this is why the merc C has the bigger battery,
but maybe with the reducing price of batteries it now means that a full bev with adult battery is cheaper to produce, so a phev has become an anachronism;
there are some nissan quotes a few years back in this thread where they were already saying bev's were artificially being priced higher than phev's.
It remains to be seen how the chancellor may tinker with car/fuel taxes on the 23rd.
Do you have a proper charge port installed. I've not done that yet.. Just plugged it into an outside socket. Ours only charges up to about 34 miles. Its gone above when we've used a proper charger whilst away on hols but at home Via 3 pin mains 34 is the most.
We've just clocked 8000 miles in ours since August... 6000 POE and 2000 Electric.... Thats because we did a 5k euro trip and only managed to charge it twice..
On the flip slide I've been using the M5C for work and putting in £150 a day. £190 today but still got some left... Boy that thing can drink
Eeek
Fun but Eeek
No proper charger yet but just using a 3 pin outside socket. Every day on charge the stated range has gone up by a few miles. First day read 32 miles. Yesterday was 47 miles, today says 49 miles.
Christ, £150/day!
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Hmm. Ours isnt charging as high as yours. Were at 34 miles full charge via 3 pin plug
Isnt it more a case of we are both charging to 24Kw but based on our previous days car driving, mine is telling me I am going to get 49 miles range and yours you are going to get 34 miles range (you have a heavier foot than me!)
Ah
Could be I suppose. Like the fuel gauge after the wife has it....lol
Don't know why I didn't think both would work the same.....
I am quite confused (which doesn't take a lot I admit), but my car appears to have gained some damage to one of the wheels (and a tiny bit on the tyre), I haven't knowingly hitting anything and some of the damage looks hard to achieve as it's further back from the edge. It was with BMW Wednesday/Thursday and I didn't think to check the wheels when I left as they were fixing the Drivers heated seat so not sure if it was done there. It's annoying as it just wasn't there when it was cleaned a week ago and I haven't driven into anything!
Yep frosts most mornings
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I am quite confused (which doesn't take a lot I admit), but my car appears to have gained some damage to one of the wheels (and a tiny bit on the tyre), I haven't knowingly hitting anything and some of the damage looks hard to achieve as it's further back from the edge. It was with BMW Wednesday/Thursday and I didn't think to check the wheels when I left as they were fixing the Drivers heated seat so not sure if it was done there. It's annoying as it just wasn't there when it was cleaned a week ago and I haven't driven into anything!
Pothole? Managed to do one of my wheels in the same manner. Big bloody thing it was