Man of Honour
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Make a spreadsheet like we did with must haves
When are you going fully electric?
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Make a spreadsheet like we did with must haves
Soldato
V2 is nice been for a test drive in one, V1 loses to many features that make it the vehicle it needs to be for the price bracket.V1 is 510 net
V1 Winter is 522 net
V2 is 573 net
V2 Winter is 587 net
So in my example it was the V1 although it is showing £842/mo now
Was looking at them on PCH, V2's only just landed from China so price is dropping on them now. For reference they are ,~£6k pa on private without maintenance.
Bonkers right. And I've already filtered out all the Chinese stuff (MG, Volvo, Omodo, BYD etc). Market is flooded.
Tesla is cheapest with highest range so unless I get a profound reason it'll be that or the Scenic.
Tavascan is nice but cloth seats is something I want to avoid.
This is gross salary so before 40/45% tax during a period I need to scrub income to get childcare topups. I would be filtering by cheapest typically, lol. No deposit, and includes insurance for my wife who is a new driver (quotes of 1500+).
Even v2 only has cloth seats? You lose pano and wheels but that doesn't bother me. Maybe winter pack for heated seats is worth it.
Is it comparable to a model y tho? In terms of luggage etc
Soldato
Cloth is pretty nice to be fair, have you had a poke around one?
No need to plot out a route....only Renault, Tesla, VW nearby. V1 has cloth, v2 has micro fibre which I guess will be like my half leathers in the Merc.
Not sure why I'm overindexing on leather. I think I'm just a bit board of the utilitarianism of the pug.
The seats in a V2/VZ1 Tavascan would definitely fill the "bit more special than utilitarian" brief IMO and the microfibre/suede/alcantara style seats from VAG i much prefer to leather personally, they don't feel like the cheap velour on an old 90s hatchback.
They're not screaming 'utilitarian' at me just because they're not leather
They're not screaming 'utilitarian' at me just because they're not leather
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Soldato
Dont forget a lot of leather in EV's, is pleather anyway. I have microfibre in mine and its really nice, i thought id miss leather but the future is fabric
Man of Honour
I meant things like :
Are they easy to sit down and get out of
360 degree camera
Heated seats and steering wheel
Pretty heat
Is the boot a good size
This is why the MG4 won and it was only £18000 for a 9 month old car.
MG I'd have in a heart beat - impressed by the MG4. I just need it bigger - and the "ZS" crossover thing hasn't had the same treatment yet (generic Chinese EV at the moment).
It is quite tidy - definitely not ruled it out yet! I'll see if the V1 is on par with cloth vs. microfibre.The seats in a V2/VZ1 Tavascan would definitely fill the "bit more special than utilitarian" brief IMO and the microfibre/suede/alcantara style seats from VAG i much prefer to leather personally, they don't feel like the cheap velour on an old 90s hatchback.
They're not screaming 'utilitarian' at me just because they're not leather
Really? Smaller wheels (better for wife with chunkier tyres), no pano, no microfibre, lesser ambient lighting?From what I've seen having been looking at Cupra's recent releases, the V1 seems to exist purely so they can say "starts from" with a low number, there's so much removed, you'd not want to actually buy the V1 trims
I would be saving £2.3k net so ~£5k overall.
Soldato
100% V1 is the small popcorn, no one buys that!
Soldato
But the company car junkies rent them
Usual tactic to get people in the showroom on the entry price and that’s half the battle of a sale done, then upsell. Mini nailed it in naughties.
Usual tactic to get people in the showroom on the entry price and that’s half the battle of a sale done, then upsell. Mini nailed it in naughties.
We have a Born v1 and it's great
Wife hates heated seats and thinks leather gets too cold in winter and too hot in summer. She does have a point tbf about the leather although she's dead wrong about heated seats
Oh god am I the 316i man
Maybe, but remember you can always have the delete badge option.
Looking at the spec list, things you miss out on with a V1 Tavascan that a V2 has...
Signature Matrix LED Lights
Pano Roof
DCC 'Sport'
Variable Boot Floor
AR Head Up Display
Sennheiser Audio
Electrically adjustable memory seats (which in the VAG world means more directions of adjustment too usually)
Top view camera
'Immersive' Ambient lighting
Illuminated Door Mouldings
Obviously it depends on the individual what sort of things matter to you but that's all the sort of stuff i'd much prefer to have and to me feels like how Cupra meant the car to be.