When are you going fully electric?

I’d be all over a decent electric roadster (e.g. an electric spiritual successor to the MX5), shame no one is going to make anything like that for years, if ever.
 
DarrenM343 said:
I hadn't driven one either before buying an EV. Will be fine.
Polestar 2 gets good reviews. Watched one from Kris Rifa (Bjorn's mate I think ) the other day and he seems to put it above the Tesla M3 overall, even if not quite there when it comes to efficiency.

Also was more excited to get an EV used than I was to get a brand new MX-5 the other year for some reason. Must be a nerd thing :D
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Same here. I've ordered a Polestar without ever seeing one let alone driving one.
 
It amazes that so many of you are doing that off the basis of a YouTube review. Previously people wouldn't dream of ordering a car costing them thousands of pounds over the term without having a go first and that was before you think about how radically different these EV's are and how many of them are more or less entirely new manufacturers from countries you'd not normally buy a car from.

Is this what happens to the car market when the company car tax benefits are just so huge that it matters little whether the product is any good and its worth the gamble?

How can you buy a car you've never seen? I wouldn't buy a dishwasher without having a look at it first let alone a car based on some Youtube influencers views.
 
[TW]Fox said:
How can you buy a car you've never seen? I wouldn't buy a dishwasher without having a look at it first let alone a car based on some Youtube influencers views.
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It all depends how choosy and fastidious you are. Some people buy a car purely based on the colour - they don't even care what it is.

I did the same with the Golf R several years ago, watched a couple of YouTube reviews and ordered it. Likewise with the BMW 520 Touring. Sometimes you just get that feeling it's the car to go for :)
 
SDK^ said:
I did the same with the Golf R several years ago, watched a couple of YouTube reviews and ordered it. Likewise with the BMW 520 Touring. Sometimes you just get that feeling it's the car to go for :)
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Neither of these were particularly difficult cars to have a drive of. I suggest you got lucky with these but I really can't understand why you didn't feel it was worth your time to look at them in person before making the decision. The Polestar may be more difficult to test and view - especially at present - but you could have been sat in a 520i within 30 minutes of adding it to your shortlist in 2017 :D

Some people buy a car purely based on the colour - they don't even care what it is.
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I doubt there are many people who buy very expensive cars purely based on the colour. I can see this happening - perhaps - at the very bottom of the car market but once you've elected for anything more than a hatchback with wheels and seats you are by definition making a choice based on more than just the colour :D
 
[TW]Fox said:
It amazes that so many of you are doing that off the basis of a YouTube review. Previously people wouldn't dream of ordering a car costing them thousands of pounds over the term without having a go first and that was before you think about how radically different these EV's are and how many of them are more or less entirely new manufacturers from countries you'd not normally buy a car from.

Is this what happens to the car market when the company car tax benefits are just so huge that it matters little whether the product is any good and its worth the gamble?

How can you buy a car you've never seen? I wouldn't buy a dishwasher without having a look at it first let alone a car based on some Youtube influencers views.
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They can't all be on the take, right?


"I have now driven 100's of different cars including pretty much every electric car that is currently available and some that will be available very shortly, so I've had a very wide experience of that....and of all those cars I've driven, I actually think this is very close to the best one I've ever driven"



 
Yep, ordered the C-Class Coupe back in 2016 when it was brand new and never seen one in the flesh, let alone had a test drive. There were literally none around when I was offered the deal, unless I wanted to travel over 170 miles to look at it. Wasn't until 2 weeks prior to delivery that I saw one in the dealers and no test drives being offered at the time.

Wouldn't hesitate to do it again, based on gathering data from various sources and first hand experiences of other users if/when available.
 
Journey said:
Yep, ordered the C-Class Coupe back in 2016 when it was brand new and never seen one in the flesh, let alone had a test drive. There were literally none around when I was offered the deal
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It was the same car as the saloon with 2 less doors. Any differences would be minor and you could have just had a look at a saloon :p

The problem with reviews is they are merely one persons opinion. Try and find a bad review of the current BMW X5. Yet I had one for two weeks and am not interested in ever driving one again let alone buying one... personal taste is difficult to account for.

I'm just amazed at how many people are ordering entire cars basically blind :eek:

How many of you are actually paying your own money for these cars - as in the actual price of the car - rather than getting them through work? I can see how if its a company car the 'Order and see' approach is rather more common, but for your own car?
 
[TW]Fox said:
Is this what happens to the car market when the company car tax benefits are just so huge that it matters little whether the product is any good and its worth the gamble?

How can you buy a car you've never seen? I wouldn't buy a dishwasher without having a look at it first let alone a car based on some Youtube influencers views.
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A) Yes, happens all the time on company car schemes with muggles.

B) I have bought a dishwasher without seeing it first, I will sleep easier knowing that's not what Fox does, but thats just fine. :D

Your probably similar to me, get sentimental to cars. Most people don't, I don't so much now either with a work scheme.
 
[TW]Fox said:
Neither of these were particularly difficult cars to have a drive of. I suggest you got lucky with these but I really can't understand why you didn't feel it was worth your time to look at them in person before making the decision. The Polestar may be more difficult to test and view - especially at present - but you could have been sat in a 520i within 30 minutes of adding it to your shortlist in 2017 :D



I doubt there are many people who buy very expensive cars purely based on the colour. I can see this happening - perhaps - at the very bottom of the car market but once you've elected for anything more than a hatchback with wheels and seats you are by definition making a choice based on more than just the colour :D
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For my last 4 cars, I didn't drive (or even see them) before I bought them. I also can't remember the last time I looked at something before I bought them - washing machine, dishwasher - would never dream of looking at them, first.

Maybe I'm just weird.
 
When I spend a meaningful amount of money on anything - even something boring like a dishwasher - I want to know I'm getting a quality product, make sure it feels well made, etc etc. Perhaps I'm strange. Wait, no, I *know* I'm strange, but didn't expect to be an outlier on this one :D

I won't tell you how much pre purchase research I did into my dishwasher though as that'll just make this whole thing worse mind :D
 
I made sure the washing machine I bought was, quiet, the capacity I needed, fitted in the space required, had a good guarantee on the drive, other parts and labour were well covered, and was the cheapest I could buy it from any shop/online store. How much more do you need, and why is a picture on a website not good enough, it's just a cuboid with a door. :p
 
I just changed my car without seeing/driving it first.

That being said, I had trawled reviews and forums when looking at what to get next. From that, a number of reviews and comments made reference to comparisons against cars I did have experience of, and whose views I felt the same way about. As such , when they made a comment about the new car, I could understand what they meant by it and form a bit better of an opinion about what to get.

having had the car a short while now , I’m finding I’m agreeing with a lot of the opinions I watched and am happy with the decisions.
 
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