Pre-purchase questions

If I can keep pestering/nagging you fine folks for more insights, what are your niggles/complaints about the car? I read somewhere that it forgets all of its settings between drives for example which I imagine must be irritating, that sort of thing.
 
Lol the whole world does not have the infrastructure to move to EVs though. Your experience is based on UK and Europe. Brazil for example has banked on Ethanol and it works fine for them. Toyota are a global company operating in the third world. Where ICE and ICE Hybrid is more suited.
Toyota are not to be admired IMO. They are resisting the needed change away from ICE powered vehicles with all their might and although they may still be selling quite a few cars, their sales are dwindling and they are the most indebted company on the planet.

They are in serious trouble unless they get their act together and stop trying to delay the inevitable - oh, and lying about what they are about to launch. Take what they claim with a pinch of salt. I'd only believe anything Toyota say these days when I see it.
Lol the whole world does not have the infrastructure to move to EVs though. Your experience is based on UK and Europe. Brazil for example has banked on Ethanol and it works fine for them. Toyota are a global company operating in the third world. Where ICE and ICE Hybrid are more suited. Certain countries dont have consistent Electricity so its not feasible as the infrastructure is lacking.

Porsche are carrying on with ICE and ICE hybrid as sales are an issue for their EV lineup.

@Moroboshi yes the safety settings dont stick. By law they are supposed to be default. So people have to turn them off again.
 
Lots of your questions are covered in the podcast that was broadcast in November.



In summary my view get an Electroverse card and it is mainly plug and tap with lots of charger capacity in Europe.

BTW we will be taking our cyberster on the Italian twistys this summer.
 
I read somewhere that it forgets all of its settings between drives

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 choses not to reset everything their NCAP rating would be downgraded.

In theory MG could implement some sort of driver profile system, as other manufacturers do and you would be able to push a single button and everything would change to your preferences. However, they have not done this yet.

Yes it can be a faff to have to do pre flight checks but in the real World this is not too onerous. In fact the only thing I turn off on a regular basis is the LKA and that is only when I am going to go on a journey where I know the speed will go over 40mph otherwise you can just jump in the car and go. This also may be a thing of the past with the latest software update as others have suggested the LKA aggression has been toned down.
 
Lol the whole world does not have the infrastructure to move to EVs though. Your experience is based on UK and Europe. Brazil for example has banked on Ethanol and it works fine for them. Toyota are a global company operating in the third world.
Not sure what experience of mine I mentioned in connection with Toyota's problems. I am fully aware that they are a 'global' company but that doesn't alter the fact they are in trouble. Not as much as Nissan, Mitsubishi etc (the latter's global sales having dropped by 40% over the last few years), but Toyota's intransigence and refusal to endorse electrification and instead continue lying about Hydrogen and other stuff will come back and bite them in the you know where unless they pull their finger out.

EV infrastructure is indeed sorely lacking in this country and will be a challenge in many others, but it's a fixable problem and is being addressed, everywhere. Oil supplies however are not. Oil is a finite resource that if we keep using, WILL run out. That's just mathematics. Not in our lifetime I'm quite sure, but if we ignore it now, it's just making the problem bigger and pushing it on to future generations for them to solve. Something Toyota seem happy to do.

So yes, infrastructure needs improvement everywhere, as does battery energy density, but these will be, indeed are being improved. An immediate shift to 100% EV would indeed be impractical currently, but this is not going to be instantaneous and infrastructure etc. will improve as vehicle sales shift towards EVs.

Not sure Toyota will be around by then though.

Porsche may be claiming they will continue to produce ICE vehicles, but when they are no longer able to sell them in Europe or much of the rest of the world, I doubt they'll be singing the same song.

Motor companies want to keep doing what they've been doing for years and are resistant to change, jumping on every opportunity to prolong the life of their existing product and plenty of Porsche's customers still want ICE powered vehicles, so whether it's environmentally sound or not, Porsche will keep making them, for as long as the demand is there. However, they will soon be unable to sell them in much of the world and anyway, over time demand will dwindle as younger generations (not having grown up with the ICE and hence not so beholden to them) become new potential Porsche customers.

Currently, the most successful car company on this planet is Tesla, who ONLY make EVs. The next most successful are the Chinese manufacturers of mostly EVs and the currently least successful car companies are the incumbents trying to resist the change.

Personally, I would not invest any money in Toyota, but that's JMO. YMMV.
 
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