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Post by bpg on Jul 13, 2023 17:25:19 GMT
Model 3 deliveries in the UK didn't start until June 2019. List may have been compiled before that.
Model S would be to expensive possibly.
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Post by bpg on Jul 13, 2023 17:59:24 GMT
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Post by dixinormus on Jul 13, 2023 21:35:32 GMT
You don’t really want “fun” from a company car though do you really? Comfort for the long schleps, space, and sufficient power are important, but sports suspension and B-road handling capabilities are usually way down the list.
That new Prius looks good! (Ducks and runs for cover)
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Post by bpg on Jul 13, 2023 22:15:44 GMT
I have no idea how WDB will use the car.
For some a company car is a tool for the job, others is a perk though that market may well have gone the way of the final salary pension.
I watched the Carwow review of the new Prius, looks pretty good though would definitely fail the headroom test for the taller folks here and irrelevant anyway, they're not going to import it to the UK.
Really odd specs too. If I want a sunroof I can't have heated seats.
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Post by Rob on Jul 13, 2023 23:06:49 GMT
A Tesla Model S cannot be an option on any company car list - it's only available as left hand drive in the UK. When I last had a company car to order in 2020, EVs were not even on any list. They did make it onto the list by the end of 2021.
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Post by WDB on Jul 14, 2023 6:13:45 GMT
I have no idea how WDB will use the car. No. Nor have I! I’d expect that to become clear over the next couple of months. You don’t really want “fun” from a company car though do you really? Comfort for the long schleps, space, and sufficient power are important, but sports suspension and B-road handling capabilities are usually way down the list. Also true. Although the EVs still on my list all have a bit of fun factor about them too. |
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Post by Humph on Aug 1, 2023 10:01:16 GMT
Guy I know has just bought himself a BMW i4 40 M Sport (whatever that is) Anyway, it replaced a VW id3. Says the new one is much better. Haven’t seen it yet but it seems to be a saloon. Good range apparently.
I may have got my nomenclatures mixed up, but I’m sure you’ll work it out!
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Post by WDB on Aug 1, 2023 10:44:04 GMT
The i4 is an EV derivative of the 4 Gran Coupé. Nice machine, despite the ugly beaver-face grille and some curious paint colours. Very efficient too, as BMW EVs tend to be anyway, but presumably aided by its lower profile and superior aerodynamics. The 40 is the single-motor version.
Like the Polestar 2, an excellent car for solo business travel, just a bit small in the back for people of stature. 🦒
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Post by EspadaIII on Aug 1, 2023 15:10:57 GMT
I know a bloke with one - lives near to Humph. Very happy with it, but the 21" tyres make the ride a bit jiggely..
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Post by WDB on Aug 1, 2023 18:51:18 GMT
…lives near to Humph. Very happy with it…. Really? I suppose it’s possible someone could be. 😛 |
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Post by WDB on Aug 16, 2023 10:21:18 GMT
I got my login to the ordering system today. Had to have a play, of course. And got a bit of a shock - or at least a disappointment.
Being able to fund a car out of pre-tax income sounds great - but it does rather depend on the headline amount for the lease. And today’s combination of high interest rates and rising insurance and service costs means that the package works out a lot more expensive than it might have done a couple of years ago. There are also three tiers of manufacturers: the favoured, the unfavoured, and those that don’t make it at all.
Kia is in the last group, as is Jaguar — so an EV6 or an iPace will have to be a private deal for me. BMW and Škoda seem to be in the middle group - although a high-spec Enyaq comes to more than an iX3. And the most favoured appears to be Mercedes-Benz, meaning an EQC might be my most affordable option, although I don’t find it a particularly appealing car. The Polestar 3 is there — but not at a price I could justify paying.
Clearly I need to spend some time assessing the full cost profile — what I could offset in insurance and servicing costs that I currently have to pay myself — and make some educated guesses as to where on the tax spectrum my income will put me next year. But my instinctive reaction is ‘no thanks’, and I’m inclined to sit on my hands until I know a bit more, or until interest rates settle down to something more affordable. Or I could just buy that 2021 iPace I’ve got my eye on. Prices on those (and even 2022 iX3s) have come down sharply in recent months.
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Post by Humph on Aug 16, 2023 10:26:19 GMT
None of my business of course, but “the way things are” I’d be reluctant to lock myself into any deal that requires input from an employer to make it stack right now. What you do privately is another thing entirely.
I’d like to think we’ve touched the bottom of this economic crapfest but I’m suspicious that we haven’t seen the worst of it yet.
So glad it won’t be my problem soon.
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Post by dixinormus on Aug 16, 2023 10:29:35 GMT
Nothing’s cheap any more.
I’d read elsewhere that some of those salary sacrifice deals weren’t competitive, with the provider not the employees getting a good deal.
My upcoming replacement Forester is weighing in at around GBP25k which seems good value, but of course we’re comparing apples with bananas.
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Post by bpg on Aug 16, 2023 10:31:46 GMT
I read something, and typically can't find it now, with more people working from home and definitely traveling less in general, the take up of a company car is less than 10%, including company directors.
People are no longer seeing the attraction. WdB my well have put his finger on the reason(s) why.
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Post by Humph on Aug 16, 2023 10:37:16 GMT
…and, while I accept that it might well be me and my own stage in life etc, but I’m just not as obsessed with cars as I once was. I still like them a bit more than is healthy or fashionable, but I’m not nearly as drilled into them as I used to be.
As long as whatever I have works for me and I quite like using it then that’s now fine, I’m not aspiring to anything more than that.
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