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Just what I wanted to hear, hooning in the scalextrix car. I was only jesting and wanted to create debate.. So thankyou
I guess I'm just not ready for one of these little micro machines yet. Got 36mpg out the R today on a 40mile run, then 15mpg after dropping the sprog at footy. Nowhere near the leccy range. Dual purpose works for me with grin factor.
Gad part of my incentive was to try before I die. EVs are the future and I wanted to have a go in a well engineered one. I haven't got forever.
Mission accomplished. I love the bloody thing a few £thousands off what I leave to ingrates is neither here nor there.
My ex-wife swore she would never enter a Macdonalds. Promise apparently broken but she kept it for a long time. I have similarly strong views about electric cars and certain forms of sex but I suppose never say never. I will be persuaded when I believe that an electric car is better than the petrol I can buy for similar money but I feel we're some way off that. Better by my standards. I already know that for some a Tesla's acceleration alone makes it better than a similarly priced petrol car. These are the same people bewitched by turbo diesels on motorways. BUT if I wanted to save money, cared about saving the planet (or was deluded enough to think an electric car contributes net to that), didn't care about range and liked the tech, I don't doubt the E would be high on my list. As things stand, I'd prefer to end my driving in front of or behind the ultimate developments of the ice. It's like electric racing cars - they will never be for me - it's for other generations.
I completely understand that perspective and largely agree in principle.
An e fits a purpose (perhaps similar to what your old MINI did) extremely well but it's no panacea. It's just very pleasant and very Honda. The most Honda Honda in years.
My problem is that ultimate ICE thing - I think most new ones have been comprehensively ruined by legislation and silly gew gaws. One cannot buy a six-cylinder Jaguar any more, for example. Oddly, the most Jag-like Jaguar seems to be the i-Pace!
If a piano falls on my Leg End, I'm completely bolloxed. Replacement parts are becoming scarce and hugely expensive. That's a PIA for an old smoker. One that I'm really impressed with.
For me, the fact Honda have clearly put some real Honda into it was a factor. Seeing fat mums sat outside school gates in Audi Q3 diesels ticking over and kicking out stink was another.
Ride played in as did running costs as I have realised, post the all compromise no promise BM, I don't hanker after a family car, I just need one. Like a big fridge.
The separation works for me.
Having said that it does make you smile in its simplicity and design. No claims of over post here, it doesn't say turbo on the back and has no faux exhausts
But I want a newish, no hassle car we will all like that'll do 90%
A strangled, horrid, 3 cyl turbo ain't for me, this beats that. For me.
I've left it in normal mode for now - just in case it catches me out.
Because it's so tall, it suffers a bit from rear-end roll and in off-camber roundabouts it's pronounced and the TC intervenes. I can imagine someone turning tightly and too much power resulting in e-specific Diesel. Drive it smoothly and it rewards.
Sound familiar?
It doesn't bing & bong like a bloody Jizz - it just quietly switched off the road departure thingy itself because it got annoyed with me. These nannies seem a lot less intrusive because of that.
Need to sort the one-pedal regen - it's a bit fierce on 3 and a bit soft on 2. But one can paddle between them easily enough.
I think Klaus Schwab has infiltrated my mind...
Nick, we decided that the Sport mode merely sharpened the throttle pedal response made it twitchy-ish.
Agree on the regen settings I feel the need for a 2.4 or perhaps they could provide dial up and down.
Both that and the bloody lane departure shit ought to be saved settings not click click every trip.
p.s I recall the main DC through Hertford has loads off roundies for too-tall jones-e's!
Funny story. My neice is soon to start learning to drive and my brother had suggested they might get her one of these.
Her response was along the lines of "Yuck! that looks like one of those old disabled person's cars". I must admit she does sort of have a point, the ungrateful wretch:
Does anyone remember a comedy character from the 1970s - might have been Benny Hill or Dick Emery or someone?
When the guy heard an innuendo, he'd start prancing about making short-arm gestures and blowing raspberries. That's what these modern German R-soul type cars remind me of, and it's bugging me I cannot recall.
Hertford roundabouts are too busy & traffic-light controlled now, Rog. It's one of the reasons I seem to be migrating toward luxo-barges - even B-segment BEV ones, apparently! Driving is as much frustration as enjoyment now, perhaps more.
I completely understand that perspective and largely agree in principle.
An e fits a purpose (perhaps similar to what your old MINI did) extremely well but it's no panacea. It's just very pleasant and very Honda. The most Honda Honda in years.
My problem is that ultimate ICE thing - I think most new ones have been comprehensively ruined by legislation and silly gew gaws. One cannot buy a six-cylinder Jaguar any more, for example. Oddly, the most Jag-like Jaguar seems to be the i-Pace!
If a piano falls on my Leg End, I'm completely bolloxed. Replacement parts are becoming scarce and hugely expensive. That's a PIA for an old smoker. One that I'm really impressed with.
I'll be interested to see what you end up with!
I have a Yaris arriving in the next few months but am more interested in something with a bigger engine and with negative green credentials. Not old though. So called modern classics are stupid money and there's nothing I want from that group anyway. Been and done.
Gad part of my incentive was to try before I die. EVs are the future and I wanted to have a go in a well engineered one. I haven't got forever.
Mission accomplished. I love the bloody thing a few £thousands off what I leave to ingrates is neither here nor there.
Admirable sentiment. I am starting two new businesses this year so no reason to stop doing new things when we are old (as well as wise). I will pass on the electrics though unless and until I can get the equivalent of a reliable little £3K hatchback I can leave on trickle in a holiday home.
