It's a touch sensitive button beneath the actual window switch? OK I concede.
When are you going fully electric?
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Above I think, so you brush it as you move your fingers down to the switch :/
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It’s funny the things that make you dismiss a car as an option. I dismissed the ID4 as an option because of this silly feature. I won’t entertain a Tesla because of the utterly laughably cheap interior design… it’s a steering wheel stuck to a plank. Well that and I detest Elon Musk. I also dismissed the Polestar 2 because it has only 1 accessible cup holder.
Efficiency and charging speeds mean nothing to me when choosing an EV. Same for how sporty and fast it is. But delete the indicator stalk and I’m not interested in what you have for sale.
Polestar 2 owner here - a quick session with a 3D printer added 5 cup holders to my car. All available to buy or you can just download the designs if you have access to a printer…
Or do what we did and get a C40 instead. A lot more practicality in a smaller footprint car.
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Literally kept doing the same in a Porsche Taycan.
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P*2 being delivered today here
Wondered if you had anymore detail or pictures on the cup holders? Didn't like that the cup holder on them is pretty much where your arm wants to be from memory
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P*2 being delivered today here
There are these for the door bins:
and you can get a single one that fits over the glove box:
I’d also recommend the organiser shelves for the centre console space
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Oh the new MY25 ones doEasy fix there from VW. It has no rear windows
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Isn’t that the LWB?
It's standard for Style and above on both as far as I can tell (but not for the base trim plebs as opening rear windows are part of a trim level lol)
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Going back to the original 2018 question of "When are you going fully electric?" post budget my answer is now early 2028 
Assuming I still have a company car at that point.
Bit of a blow for the sales of all those new and pending high EV range PHEVs. There will be an absolute fire sale on double cab pickups on the horizon as well!
Assuming I still have a company car at that point. Bit of a blow for the sales of all those new and pending high EV range PHEVs. There will be an absolute fire sale on double cab pickups on the horizon as well!
A bit of an ouch for you there with the BIK changes, still a lot lower than a full ICE mind.
Come 2030 it will be the same for EVs, we will probably max out the BIKs gravy train while we can before going back to buying a used (electric) car like I normally would have done in the past.
I 100% agree with the double cab changes, it’s a car first and foremost and always has been.
Come 2030 it will be the same for EVs, we will probably max out the BIKs gravy train while we can before going back to buying a used (electric) car like I normally would have done in the past.
I 100% agree with the double cab changes, it’s a car first and foremost and always has been.
Nothing from the UK government yet on whether they will impose same chinese ev tarifs as EU now confirmed , you'd expect good UK deals on the EU ones that attract highest rates there.
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I don't mind too much, just means I need to play the system a little. We keep our company cars for ages running them to around 6 years old and well into 6 figure mileage normally.
Last time I picked up a 6 month old pre reg, this time I'm now going to recommend that they keep a third of the budget that they've suggested and I'll get something older with more miles and look to replace it sooner (ie. Early 2028...).
Who it really sucks for will be company car users without the ability to charge at home.
I agree with regards to the double cab pickups but again, bit of a blow for Ford though. Ranger sales will stop dead in just 4 months time. Likewise the high range PHEVs, they may as well pull them middle of next year because no one is going to put themselves in an expensive car at 5% BIK knowing that is going to end up at 18%.
BIK gravy train was always going to end but I thought it would pull up at the station not come clean off the tracks.
I get what you are saying here but if you can’t charge at home, a PHEV is an unsuitable vehicle as it will not get charged.
The whole point is that you did most of your miles on battery. You might as well just got a standard hybrid or a diesel if you are doing the miles.
This is the reality of company car owners who can’t/don’t charge at home, they benefit from the reduced tax but there are zero CO2 savings, if anything there is additional CO2 produced. It was/is terrible value for money.
Some of the cars I still see people choose on company car schemes at work, i'm not even sure some of them think that far through, they just see 'company car' and pick one they like the sound of
