Leap of faith
now I sold my S2000 I will go for outright buy. Lose the £3.5k interest.

Salesman assures me the car is status 40 meaning it has left the factory in Japan. He holds to 2 September. Head up his arse ...

The sea time alone from Japan to the UK is 4 weeks on a dedicated boat or 6 weeks on a shared boat with other pickups in Japan and also refuelling stops via Suez and Gibraltar.

I just told him October

 

i was promised 12th Sept but later would be fine with me, i'm in no rush and would prefer to sort out the work to pay for it first in the current situation

i dont think you can be any worse off than the PCP.. you are £18.5k down over 3 years and there is no incentive on Honda's part to offer you any more than the GMV of c£15k which means you would have to splurge for the car and sell on to retrieve any excess to that, meanwhile you paid an extra £3k for the priv. i dunno what kind of china you'd have rocking up to your door for a car like this

As it is if it's worth more than £12k you are quids in.. assuming you don't successfully gamble on an economic recovery from this shitshow

 

i've shuffled my order out to Nov and swapped to Blue

having said that if the 9.6m furloughed turn into 9.6m doleys like i expect i probably wont be proceeding

 

I looked around the blue model my local dealer has in, looks better in some colours than others, surprised to see it shod with Michelin PS4’s, will it ever get near the limit of grip? Salesman thought they might be able to deliver end of September but it seems to be when the the boat is away from Japan and it’s route, and even the weather.

 

My order was said to be 'status 40' (left the factory) two weeks ago when the salesman was saying 2nd September. After I gently educated him on boat times Japan-UK (4 weeks dedicated load, 6 weeks mixed load ship) he is now saying 18th September. That would require a dedicated ship load and departure immediately after his 'status 40'. Neither being likely I am sticking to my early to mid October spread bet.

I am still waiting for a registration number so I can arrange insurance ...

 

they had told me 12th Sept was on but couldnt do any earlier. they reaffirmed this date a few days ago before i delayed.
I will buy one assuming i get a contract in my dirty little mitt to cover it but if not i will sit back and practice calisthenics and get some shitty bike carrier for the shitsan

 

It's the new S2000!

Apparently, people acclimatised to FWD keep finding e-specific Diesel on wet roads.

 

The short wheel base won't be helping in that regard, but then i'd have thought that the "stability" features would prevent any silliness.

I wonder if they could fit the motors from these into my car, given they seem unable to find an F20C.

 

It would detract somewhat from the experience but resolve the torque issue I never had

I assume the TC isn't working, it was wet when I drove yet I didn't crash it once

 

Programme on ITV earlier tonight the delectable Ms Etchingham on electric cars for an hour. No not like that

The telling part was a Yorkshire couple they loaned a car to two years ago and who had a mare of a trip to London back then. 6 hours.

This time they repeated the trip - only slightly better. Miss the M18 south planning to recharge on the M1 Leicester Forest. Instead had to chance the A1. 5 hour journey

We are re-thinking our 129 mile journey to the grands in Sevenoaks with a meal stop and re-charge at Barton Mills. Then on old concrete slab dual carriageway road out of Norfolk.

After that I am convinced battery EVs are a short lived species and the real future is in liquid Hydrogen fueled vehicles. Buses and lorries are already f-forwarding to that technology.

L-ion battery EVs, a short few years in the sun until we get pissed off at 45 minute recharge time - if you can find a vacant charge point quickly. Journey times intolerably longer.