Soldato
Nah. Everyone played Mario kart.
The confusing between grip and handling is the common one. People pressing on and driving fast on the road are only really around 0.35g lateral. Ie half what most cars are comfortable doing.
When are you going fully electric?
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The confusing between grip and handling is the common one. People pressing on and driving fast on the road are only really around 0.35g lateral. Ie half what most cars are comfortable doing.
Soldato
It'll float over the pot holes.Yeah it’s only 835kg you see. And weight is ALL that matters
people have other purchase priorities and, today, lack experience in an older car with hydraulic steering/rwd/manual gearbox(as well as low weight) - they don't miss what they never had in an everyday'ish saloon.
But, driving can be fun - the number of (positive) ev reviews that extoll straight line acceleration party-piece, immediately concede the handling point.
- the driver of the i-pace thought power would make up for other characteristics M2 had
agree if you mean it is predominately the driver who feels the handling/turn-in/braking... of a car, and as such difficult for someone in (aforementioned ipace) passenger seat to evaluate,
sensation when you are driven in your own car is interesting.
Exactly this. Even a half decent EV will handle this with relative ease. It’s the mythical concept that an EV being 250kg heavier than an equivalent ICE suddenly renders it undriveable at anything approaching the speed limit on a bend.
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Love the way amateur drivers all think they are driving gods. It’s worrying if someone is reaching anywhere close to the limits of a modern car’s handling on the public road.
Drive a better one then. Model 3s have zero feedback
Top gear had the model 3 performance beating a BMW M3 on the track. Ofc this is a single lap. The recent models have similar weight.
Er no:
Plus an EV will always be stock power and degrade over time. An ice car can be tuned.
Uk fastest g87 m2 by R44 performance has 1500hp
Er yes?
Not saying the model 3 is a better track car, just it's handling isn't that bad, also neither is it's weight.
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Your video is 5 years old. Mine is 1 month old
Have you driven a model 3 or just firing some YouTube over the fence ?
Soldato
Such as?
track driving. We are talking about grip on a known circuit, not handling.
You missed the polestar memo then?
How embarrassing popping into an electric car discussion angling to “handling” to a link to a US based drag car. Talk about living rent free….
track driving. We are talking about grip on a known circuit, not handling.
You missed the polestar memo then?
How embarrassing popping into an electric car discussion angling to “handling” to a link to a US based drag car. Talk about living rent free….
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Mine is from Top gear, hence posting 'Top gear had the model 3 performance beating a BMW M3 on the track.'.
If I'd have suggested Hagerty did, you could rightly claim that to be false.
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Soldato
100% support this, context to a comment is great. For some wide boy to pop up saying his video is newer is an utter farce. Tech boy : have you tried reading posts before you go YouTube hunting? Santa might have some clues spare in the sack if you ask him fast too, after all you do have the toy M car.
Ok I accept that the model 3 performance beat an f80 m3. It is a biased video, as the f80 m3 was released back in 2014.
I’m talking about the current model 3 performance v current m g8x BMW’s.
Soldato
Yeah but no one cares. Most ballers have both?
Rest are just noisy wannabes.
Rest are just noisy wannabes.
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Looks like delivery of the new car is still on for the 6th, charger being installed on the 7th. Currently very excited, definitely a late Christmas present
First electric car so need to reset my thought process regarding filling it up. I've been without a car now for a couple of months and although nice to be chauffeured by Uber everywhere I really miss the driving. I appreciate it's likely already been covered a million times in various threads but what words of wisdom would you give if you were experiencing an EV for the first time?
First electric car so need to reset my thought process regarding filling it up. I've been without a car now for a couple of months and although nice to be chauffeured by Uber everywhere I really miss the driving. I appreciate it's likely already been covered a million times in various threads but what words of wisdom would you give if you were experiencing an EV for the first time?
Soldato
Learn to use regen breaking properly. Get the traffic light grand prix out of your system, unless you see Masher in his Lotus (shizbox). Learn the true range of the car if you are going to do lots of long trips in it.
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Get a proper charger, I recommend Zappi and go on Octopus Intelligent Go.
With iGo you'll be able to plug in, it will give you a charging schedule and also tell you when you can use cheap electricity in the house so for example my Mrs will put the washer and tumble dryer on at 9.30pm.
Depending on the car go and watch a load of videos on You Tube, I came across a bloke who had made 14 videos for the MG4 and it really helped me.
The garage I bought it from now give future MG4 owners information with that You Tube page on.
We always put ours in ECO Mode, don't need it any higher, it's still like poo off a shovel.