Indeed and for those that think this might be excessive. Nio in China is doing a 100kWh and 150kWh battery in their ET5 which is a Model 3 sized car. The 150kWh is very expensive at the moment as production of them hasn’t ramped but the 100kWh isn’t.
The cruise control button on the steering wheel, (Assuming it's the same as the MS Plaid i've driven)
I’m sold for the most part on air suspension but it is possible to have a very good ride with springs also, good enough for sure. Of course a lot of makes all went for sporty driving which it seems despite our crap roads, is what most Brits want. You can tell this because if you look at the Germans, they stopped offering cars like the regular M5 in the UK and only offer the former competition offerings.You seem a bit sat-on-the-fence about it ...
Hahaha ... I'm off to rename my White MY from "BattBaby" to "Appliance"
Happy with that, now that I've experience the difference in arrival wear-and-tear on occupants on long journeys. Saves half to a full day of recovery, at each end of a 500+ mile journey - and that's comparing my old self, now, with my younger self when I was driving smaller cars without air suspension.
Yeah tis a bit of a worry just how fast cars are getting with the cost of that speed rapidly dropping. As an IT guy in my mid forties I've drastically cut down on the amount of rubber I leave behind on a roundabout.Can you imagine a bunch of IT mid-twenty somethings getting M3 Plaids as Company Cars...
You'd never get onto a roundabout safely, again.
It was bad enough when we/they were armed with 6 cylinder BMW's back in the day
Mid 20's me probably wouldn't have made it to 30 with something as fast as a Plaid.
I don’t think anyone in the UK probably knows those hand signals anymore. They only know the more modern “hand signals” you give to other drivers
I remember going to a company a while ago and having the nicest car in the car park by quite a bit. One of the company Directors asked who's car it was, then went to find out what they were paying for me before coming up to me and telling me they are paying more for me than they would a Director. Obviously I told him I'm reassuringly expensive but worth itHahaha ... but the Left Turn Signal is accomplished by sticking your hand out of the right window ... not sure anyone who doesn't remember also having someone walk in front of the car with a red flag will know the Right/Left hand signal difference
yes, agreed, I just need "very comfortable", don't care how the engineering boffins achieve it. But I have been completely swayed, since I had firstMS, by the ability to have supercar acceleration from 0-to-bonkers, oodles of cargo space, comfortable ride when touring and 5 adults in comfort (M3 might fail on that one, but I don't need it often, and Bjorn reckoned the room in the back was better)
I remember a software company having a Rolls Royce for "Salesman of the year" and a pair of Lotus Esprits for "Salesman of the month".
not many got their hands on the Lotus for their month ... they were always in the shop (mostly 'coz they were bent, but "Lots of trouble, usually serious" also applied).
And of course the Rolls wouldn't fit in any salesman's garage ...
Yeah that's been there since they announced it but it then just takes you to their normal marketting signup page. At the risk of being spammed with pointless emails, I did sign up but I'm trusting all of you to let me know probably before Tesla does
Indeed. Obviously if they push a bit harder then I normally tell them at least you know where I’m spending my money. It’s the ones you are paying a similar rate for and turn up in a Fiesta you need to worry about. They probably have a gambling, drugs or lady of leisure problem so cannot afford a decent car.
