Two bits of sad news

[andyBeaker]

First - the Audi R8 is going out of production. Absolutely fantastic car.



Second - Dacia are bring their small EV - the Spring - to the UK. For your £14995 you will get 0-60mph of around fourteen seconds and a range of c90 miles.

 

[derek kelly]

First - the Audi R8 is going out of production. Absolutely fantastic car.

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Second - Dacia are bring their small EV - the Spring - to the UK. For your £14995 you will get 0-60mph of around fourteen seconds and a range of c90 miles.
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Good.
Don’t want an electric car, can’t wait till there are thousands of the buggers abandoned on the road sides as they need new batteries but replacements are way out of people’s price range.
As an aside, we moved house three years ago, just before we moved a guy about five doors away bought two Teslas, he used to brag about them & claim he was getting over 200 miles per charge (still not enough) speaking to Harry my old next door neighbour & he tells me the guy is complaining as he’s now averaging around 70 miles per charge.

 

[Pow-Lo]

Good.
Don’t want an electric car, can’t wait till there are thousands of the buggers abandoned on the road sides as they need new batteries but replacements are way out of people’s price range.
As an aside, we moved house three years ago, just before we moved a guy about five doors away bought two Teslas, he used to brag about them & claim he was getting over 200 miles per charge (still not enough) speaking to Harry my old next door neighbour & he tells me the guy is complaining as he’s now averaging around 70 miles per charge.

Don't care about the R8, or any Audi for that matter. Only thing worse than a BM driver is an Audi driver.

Mrs P was on about Teslas the other day. Dozens of pilots at work bought Teslas under the airline's 'salary sacrifice' scheme (quite possibly the stupidest way on earth to buy a new car; even a retard like me can see it's a bad idea) a number of years ago. Now that the cars are all three to four years old, they're like rotten fish in that no one wants them. They're being offered peanuts for them against new cars and the range has decreased dramatically from new.

The slightly smarter pilots that bought a Tesla on a PCP are taking them back to trade for a new model only to find there's no equity in them.

 

[Lee337]

My Aunt is trying to sell her Tesla, can't trade it in as no one will touch it and can't sell it privately as there's no interest. 5 years old & only used for shopping as she uses the Range Rover for longer journeys. She offered it to both her daughters (free) & neither of them would touch it either.

I know of only one person who has a Tesla & is happy to keep it. It's a company car, he commutes with it 40 miles a day & charges it up at work. All it costs to run is benefits in kind, which he's happy to do. He has it for 3 years after which they swap it for a new one.