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Looks like by the time the doors had opened wide enough to get in the seats would be soaking wet in any kind of rainy weather

Was doing the usual trawl through YouTube and found this MG4 battery video which gave some real World data

Will your credit card company be able to give you the start and stop timestamps?

To get a certain NCAP safety rating every car has to start up with certain settings turned ON. Each manufacturer has chosen to implement the way you turn these off in different ways. So it is not so much the car forgetting things but resetting them to the NCAP standard. If a manufacturer...

Best and worst range I have seen from the GOM (guess o meter) at 100% charge is 238 and 181 Best and worst efficiency I have seen is 3.6 miles/kWh and 2.2 Miles/kWh which is real World 222 to 135 miles from a 100% charge. That is from a mix of Winter and Summer driving and Motorway and around...

Just drove home in the Mini Electric and even that felt more engaging than the BMW, so for me I think it was the suspension set up as much as anything that was the reason. But I guess the iX1 is set up as a family SUV so understandable.

Had to take the wife's Mini electric in for a software update recall and have been given a BMW iX1 3.0 as a loan car, compared to the XPower the iX feels wallowy and slow. On paper it is 5.6s to 60 which now feels monumentally slow agains the XPower's 3.8s also can't see how BMW justify £20k -...

Understand all that but the OP history with MX-5's would suggest this as a reference point. The change from ICE to EV will also mean a completely different engagement experience. If you are into finding the power band in the rev range, juggling 3 pedals and exhaust sounds, that will not be...

This hasn't stopped the EV experiments... VAG - reverting to drum brakes for the rear wheels (as regen provides brake force) Tesla - removing all steering column stalks Steering wheels - becoming yokes or playstation controllers Cyberster - up and down doors Seating positions becoming higher...

You have to consider where EV development is in comparison to ICE vehicles and expect that even in the short term 5-10 years there are going to be more advances in the drivetrain tech. This would suggest that todays tech will be ZX Spectrum or Sinclair C5 specification in a few years. If you...

All the AI search engines say you will get 10- 15 years and up to 200,000 miles from an EV motor. So a longer life than an ICE motor, considering that is with zero servicing, it seems pretty cost effective.

The other thing that you might find is different is the weight of the Cyberster, compared to an MX- 5 or an Elise. Potentially twice the mass to be shifted in the bends.

I would never trust the speed recognition, some of it can be GPS driven from known (out of date) information and sometimes the camera will misread (side street angled signs) or totally ignore them (looking at you tiny 20mph signs). Use it as a guide but always make sure you are aware of the...

Golf R vs Xpower you say...

Where servicing and warranty data is not being recorded correctly, the dealers and MG are handling personal data so must comply with GDPR principles. I suspect if you start asking them for compliance and data officer details they might be more responsive as these type of requests will hit them...

I would say for me the only thing to adapt to was when taking my foot off the accelerator to gauge how much regen was being applied.

I have found in both my car and my Wife's Mini Electric that the inside of the windows do seem to accumulate more of a film than in petrol cars, similar to when I owned diesel cars. So you end up having to wipe them down with a soft cloth more often. Maybe just poor air filters in the car

I have the footage in another post of a Tesla owner being so surprised at how fast I left a set of lights that they went through the next set of red lights as they were too busy trying to lose me

Just one of the many many ironies of the new world order we are seeing is this...

Take a few time stamped videos of it happening to show the service dept of any dealer you take it to what you are experiencing (and as proof it does happen even if they are not able to replicate it)