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Me too, and by the time my lease is up there should be a raft of new EV's available with even better range. The 2024 EV Mini has doubled it's range.
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Me too, and by the time my lease is up there should be a raft of new EV's available with even better range. The 2024 EV Mini has doubled it's range.
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Just keep it and keep running it as your daily. No point sinking money into some other commuter box.
This is why I ended up with another 850 instead of a Golf, never mind an EV - suddenly looked cost effective and still fun.
You have the Cayman for fun, yellow is faster
This is why I ended up with another 850 instead of a Golf, never mind an EV - suddenly looked cost effective and still fun.
You have the Cayman for fun, yellow is faster
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Its almost certainly going to decrease as more and more viable alternatives come on to the market. The next 12 months will see literally dozens of new models available to order.
Used values were always going to take a substantial nose-dive from 2021/2022 levels, Tesla cutting prices just sped the process up a bit.
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So Telsa have brought a few LHD cars over to let people experience them and invited me to drive a plaid since I had one ordered.
Had a good hour in it and feck me. Words cannot describe the acceleration it’s insane, made my vision blurry lol my 3 is no slouch and this feels in a totally different planet.
The newer interior is lovely but I didn’t like the yoke. Found it very clumsy for low speed manoeuvres but you can get it with a regular round wheel.
Overall I didn’t find the LHD as annoying as I thought it would, drive through and car parks would be the main issue.
I love the way it looks too, very sleek!
It’s put it back on the table to consider. Having another go in it next week to see how I feel once the initial wow factor has died down.
Had a good hour in it and feck me. Words cannot describe the acceleration it’s insane, made my vision blurry lol my 3 is no slouch and this feels in a totally different planet.
The newer interior is lovely but I didn’t like the yoke. Found it very clumsy for low speed manoeuvres but you can get it with a regular round wheel.
Overall I didn’t find the LHD as annoying as I thought it would, drive through and car parks would be the main issue.
I love the way it looks too, very sleek!
It’s put it back on the table to consider. Having another go in it next week to see how I feel once the initial wow factor has died down.
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To be honest, if you do a lot of car parks, toll booths, drive-through, etc., then LHD gets very boring very quickly. Even more so in winter.
On the road you get used to it. Just watch out exiting junctions, and changing lanes. You learn to work around it but visibility can be an issue.
Overtaking is awkward. Again you learn to work around it, but it's never the same as RHD.
But if you want one you want one
On the road you get used to it. Just watch out exiting junctions, and changing lanes. You learn to work around it but visibility can be an issue.
Overtaking is awkward. Again you learn to work around it, but it's never the same as RHD.
But if you want one you want one
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I got a M3P loaner for a weekend when my SR+ was in for work. It was stupid fast - can't imagine what the Plaid is like!
From an OEM point of view it’s pretty simple - if the market isn’t big enough there is no point engineering, certifying and then building a RHD version
Given the low volumes of Model S and X worldwide never mind in RHD markets it makes total sense for Tesla
I’ve driven loads of LHD cars in the U.K. and would be fine with it but can understand why it would rule it out for 90% of potential buyers
I get it, but surely a Model S is far more common than a lot of other cars that are made in both LHD and RHD? Maybe I’m overestimating how common S’s are.
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You guys are really failing to understand what the speed of this thing felt like 
I understand now what the first hit of heroin must feel like and the life choices that ensue with chasing the dragon.
The overtaking thing isn’t a problem in it, hang back a bit more than usual to increase your vision and then in half a second you have torpedo’d to a new county, never mind past a car
…. but sadly yes, I would imagine a total ball ache
I actually asked that question. It’s bound too. Still it’s a 120k car so I’d imagine insurance isn’t cheap to begin with.
I understand now what the first hit of heroin must feel like and the life choices that ensue with chasing the dragon.
The overtaking thing isn’t a problem in it, hang back a bit more than usual to increase your vision and then in half a second you have torpedo’d to a new county, never mind past a car
…. but sadly yes, I would imagine a total ball ache
I actually asked that question. It’s bound too. Still it’s a 120k car so I’d imagine insurance isn’t cheap to begin with.
They produced 70000 Model S/X combined last year worldwide compared to 1.3 million Model 3/Y
Then remember the only big markets that are RHD are U.K., Japan, Aus and NZ
I cannot seem to find how many Model S sold in U.K. last year but they did sell 54500 Model 3/Y
So if the U.K. ratio is the same as their worldwide production that means they sold circa 3000 Model S/X combined
To be honest, if you do a lot of car parks, toll booths, drive-through, etc., then LHD gets very boring very quickly. Even more so in winter.
On the road you get used to it. Just watch out exiting junctions, and changing lanes. You learn to work around it but visibility can be an issue.
Overtaking is awkward. Again you learn to work around it, but it's never the same as RHD.
But if you want one you want one
