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So it’s $43,900 dollars now! A veritable bargain ?

I can only echo the above. If it’s a rejection you want, getting in before the 30 days are up is paramount. I rejected an AMG Merc 5 years ago for unfixable software issues around 3-4 weeks into my ownership. Was no fuss whatsoever and they were very helpful in finding another vehicle for me...

Had a vibrant yellow one parked next to me whilst charging a couple of weeks ago and my overriding impression was one of enormity. It’s big in every dimension, to me it’s almost ungainly. Very un-Lotus I thought.

That’s genuinely surprised me. I had a chance to take a really good look around a Lucid with the owner when I was at a very convivial vineyard visit in Napa a year or so back and to me it appeared it was so much larger than the Taycan. I’m guessing the optical illusion I suffered from was just...

Driving home after 13 hr flight yesterday I had the great pleasure of the unbidden company of an Olympic-class tool in a M3P try to bait me into racing him at every roundabout, traffic light and junction. His evident great joy in his 0-60 one-trick pony was a joy to ignore as I sailed on...

Pretty much the same here. 48k miles in a 2021 CT4S. Raft of warranty jobs, some inconsequential and some downright aggravating and only mitigated by the great team at my local OPC. Cabin is spotless aside from the bolster on my seat which is a little careworn due to my hefting my self in and...

We have the Fiat and it’s a delight. It’s not the most dynamic handling vehicle (steering is super light and lacking in feedback) but it has a puppyish charm when driving it. It’s naturally at home best in the city, its turn of speed off the line is great (well, up to about 35-40 mph anyhow but...

Hello from a fellow Norfolk Mamba driver! Lovely report and a cracking trip. I still look back fondly on my run up and down France last year and the sheer ease of it all thanks to numerous IONITY stations with lots of charger pedestals and availability. A different world!

Having just done a couple of the rebalancing exercises (down to below 10%, leave overnight, charge to 100%, leave overnight) I had a few odd results such as driving away with 100% which became 96% immediately coupled with a low range estimate at 100% for the time of year (200 miles) but the 2nd...

My range estimation is capricious at best and seems to vary with the infinite number of environmental/usage variables it’s subject to. Actual achieved range varies from 160 (French Autoroute run, Marseilles to Calais in a day, super hot weather, A/C on, 3 up with luggage at speed) to 250 (20-25c...

I hear you!

Oh it’s absolutely rubbish but I love the way it drives with them on and, as it’s the lease company’s problem to bear, I’m happy to keep chewing through them!

That’s pretty much how far I‘ve managed on every set of 21” Pirellis so far. My lease company mandates the tyres must have 2mm or less (which gives the OPC conniptions every time I go in) so got to a shade over 11k a set to comply with that. Nearly all driving done on motorway at 70mph with the...

My profuse apologies for not getting back to you on this one sooner. My car went in for this and they replaced the fans under warranty within a couple of hours with no fuss. Another tick in the box for my OPC (Norwich).

Fair play to Norwich OPC, they didn’t have space in the workshop but were happy for me to drop it off and leave it with them, which I did on Monday first thing. I collected the car early yesterday morning with a new 22kw charger fitted, cleaned and fully charged. Cannot fault the service or the...

Yup, were I to go for a gen 2 Taycan, I wouldn’t specify the option again. It’s been of little use relatively speaking and similarly little reliability.

According to the OPC, it’s blown the onboard 22kw charger again (this one being the allegedly upgraded version). Ho hum.

That’s the one!

Feed my inner geek please, I’d love to know more if you can spare the time.

Gave that a whirl, sadly no luck. Off to the OPC she goes!