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I have had a couple from JLR. A couple too many. Freelander my father had was a fucking disaster straight from the factory and the discovery sport might be the worst build quality since Trabant.
Why an EV? I do roughly 15/17k miles a year. I’d just rather not spout that much emissions out any more. I’d rather not do the miles but this seems a reasonable halfway house for the next 2/3 years I do this.
If another plug in hybrid diesel was available other than the Mercedes tank I’d settle there. Petrol ones don’t get enough mpg for the miles I do on top of the 50 odd miles they get electric
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Why?
I'm not massively up on all the EVs in the market, but nothing about what you've said sounds like an EV is a good idea. Imo it sounds like you'd be much better off with a 2nd hand ICE and wait 2-3yrs.
I'd also second the "not wanting to sound cunty but comment". Would a lift and off-road tyres do the job? It sounds not. Tbh it sounds like you should be getting a disco. Or a Freelander maybe? They're cheap and meant to be very capable offroad by Internet geeks. At a guess I'd expect them to have less tech to go wrong than a disco.