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Pals have the MG and love it. Boot space isn't great imo and feels cheap inside.

@soul Cheers, the range thing is a bit murky right? There's a stated figure and then anecdotal real world figure that people moan about on forums... So the i5 is 295 miles on the books which sounds reasonable so what's that, 230 IRL?
I was looking at second hand Audi E-tron but the range is way worse than that!

I haven't tried the EV but was given one of their SUVs for a couple of weeks after my car got T-boned by my myopic neighbour. I agree, does feel a bit cheap and cheerful.

I believe it was @JonoMarshall ?

Reported range is bullshit from all manufacturers. I would usually assume anywhere from 70-85% of range is more realistic.

There’s no way an £80k estate car (more when you add a few of the bells and whistles) should only be available with a 75kWh pack. It should really be in the 90s.

Apparently the rumors are that they’re discontinuing the 40e in favor of a 50e in early Jan which would have a larger pack size and more likely to get closer to 300mile range.

Having said all that, the amount of times you really need that range is minimal so it’s probably fine.

Calling @jdmitch

I have an i4 (silly M50 version) with a stated range of 315 miles, did a 260mile round trip in the summer with 10% of the battery remaining so it was probably giving about 285-290 miles range total. That was sat on cruise at 70 most of the time and on Eco Pro mode. I wouldn’t touch the first gen E-Tron 50 given what’s available nowadays, I had one as a company car previously and in ideal conditions it might just about manage 160 miles, but indicated more like 110 in the winter.

I think I’m being paged because of my MG5 which is a great car, very happy with it and we’ve managed it with 3 kids, which requires a bit of creativity to fit the right car seats, but possible (all in isofix).
We had space for all 5 of us plus camping kit for 2 weeks, and it was tight, but possible. The newer models have roof bars and bigger battery than ours but we’ve only rarely had issues with range… hope that’s an informative recommendation @inchpincher?

Thanks for that.

Skoda are bringing out a new ev in the new year. Looks a good option.
Otherwise I’m looking at a Megane, mg4 or a Hyundai

I really like my MG4 apart from one (pretty big) thing: the dealer support is absolutely woeful. Just terrible.

I had a small issue with the navigation / control screen (power cable connector failed). This led to the car being off the road with the dealer for nearly six months with basically "go fuck yourself" as the attitude and comms strategy from them.

A shame really as the car itself is pretty good.

How do you cope with the apparently never ending issue of lane keep assist and unexpected emergency braking? Or is it not really a thing?

You can turn the lane assist off, but it resets whenever the car is locked, which is really fucking annoying. I hate it, I think it's dangerous as suddenly it'll change direction without warning bar the steering wheel moving. I was driving on a motorway when a car cut across me really closely as he moved into the lane ahead of me and it took me sharply to the left and we very nearly hit a car on the inside that I was over taking.

I don't do much motorway driving (I don't do much driving at all really) but I always ensure we've turned it off before we drive on one.

The emergency braking thing is a mild irritant in contrast.

Really useful, cheers. Even with the bigger battery package, they’re very reasonably priced.

Both the lane keep and the braking thing are annoying but not something that bothers me. They happen pretty rarely in my experience.

What is annoying is that they are facets of a poor implementation of computer driving tech that just worked so much better in the Kia I had previously.

In the Kia, on the motorway, I would trust it to basically drive for me for hours on end, lightly holding the steering wheel and occasionally overtaking a slow lorry.

The MG is not up to that standard.

I'm probably going back to a Kia when this lease expires.

Well, I picked up a ‘23 plate Kona 64kw (facelift version) yesterday. First impressions are positive. It’s charged overnight on the granny charger whilst I wait for my Ohme charger installation. Not a full charge of course but topping up will work on Octopus Go at 8.7p per kilowatt.
Once the sun went lower in the sky it became apparent there are a number of large scratches on the inside of the windscreen. These weren’t visible from the outside and I’m hoping they’ll replace the windscreen.
With Hyundai any dealer sold car less than 3 years and 36000 miles automatically gets the warranty reset to 5 years so that was a clincher really.

Citroen e-Berlingo is quite nice.

V happy with my third EV, we have now ditched petrol. New car is a Kia Soul and it is even smoother and easier to drive than the Leaf, and the range is a huge step up - it can do over 250 miles on one charge despite being 4 years old. Now using the E.on Next Drive tariff to refuel at 6.7p per kWh, second charging point installed last week so we can both charge at the same time.

large scratches on the inside of the windscreen

Don't you just love engagement rings?

New car day! Bye bye Elon, hello Chinese / Volvo owned joint venture.

@JonoMarshall - thanks so much for your help sorting this.

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Watch that monobloc crumble with the weight of the behemoth.
Do these things actually weigh more than a G wagen? About 2.5 tons?

Gross vehicle weight is 6730 lbs - over 3 tonnes!

You’ll be getting good value for money on your estate management fees from the replaced broken pavers.

I have a Polestar 2 at the moment as a hire car- I like all the drive train side of things, but it’s a bit small and I would want an estate rather than a saloon. Range appears to be around 200 miles with a charge to 90%.

Although the seats have close to no under thigh support which would get very annoying on longer journeys.