Sounds like the BMW i3 from 2015. The REX was dropped over here though as they increased battery capacity. Personally I didn’t want the associated service costs of owning an ICE even if it doesn’t drive the wheels. On the i3 forums most problems with the older cars are linked to the REX. REX is a range extending ICE generator.
A Honda CRV isn’t a large SUV at all, and you won’t get a new one for £12k as you originally mentioned. But now you seem to have doubled the budget all of a sudden
Move to the UK. They are unreliable, expensive, dirty and keep going on strike.
That privatization really worked out for you all eh? /s I am not trying to mock you all in the UK but the continent generally has really good train service, certainly Switzerland does. The Swiss also have high rates of car ownership and I see more and more EVs on the road. Good to see.
Agreed. I travel by train in Germany fairly often. It’s such a different experience. I buy a ticket weeks in advance, yet I know what time my train will arrive, at what platform and where I need to go for my connection and how many minutes I’ll be waiting. It works great. But apart from the crap UK issues, public transport doesn’t work for my commute. Would take me hours. We only get 2 buses a day to the village.
Well in fact, a lot of smaller towns and villiages in Switzerland in rural areas in the Jura and Alps are better suited to cars than public transport latter limited to "postbuses" that are not as frequent as one might like. Worth it for those who prefer rural life.
And not only that, it is expensive. Very expensive. Even me by myself driving into London in our Polestar is cheaper than taking the train, if a family of four travels in the same car the cost saving is a meal out...
A Honda CRV isn’t a large SUV at all, and you won’t get a new one for £12k as you originally mentioned. But now you seem to have doubled the budget all of a sudden
I agree. The car market as a whole is a disaster with component shortages. Dealers are marking up cars way over MSRP where i live. I've seen one year old used cars selling for more than new MSRP. I don't mean one year old as it sat on a lot for a year but one year old as in maybe 10k miles or maybe more. A car in good shape but no way would I pay more than new price for it.
The last time I got an online quote for my Tesla Model 3, the cash price was more than I paid for it brand new over 2 years ago.
Yes, assuming you already have the car, besides I need a car to get to the train station. Otherwise add another £60 per journey, not including my time value, for the taxi fees per day.
Absolutely. Have you tried to buy a train recently? Very expensive indeed.
I hope that when people cut spending it causes a price drop. Right now it's a sellers market so some dealers are taking advantage of it and being predatory. I don't mind when consumers take advantage of the market if they're selling their stuff but dealers should at least stick to MSRP. I got it maybe don't negotiate below like what used to happen but adding 10k or more is just unethical. Yeah I know car salesman being unethical shocking right... What's next, unethical lawyers 🤣
Not sure why you say it is silly. It is reality for me. Where I used to work they were moving offices and the new offices would have reduced parking so they did a survey for public transport. It takes me 30-40 minutes to drive, and I would need to leave the evening before, stay in a hotel, if I want to be in the office by 9.30 in the morning....I'd use public transport if it was better, but it isn't good enough for many people...
In the UK there is no dealers selling above RRP. But whilst there is a stock shortage of both new and second hand cars, there is unlikely to be many deals.
The taxi ranks they have outside airports and train stations would be ideal for this sort of thing as the taxis used to queue for fares. But of course these days it’s all Uber and the like do it probably doesn’t work like that anymore.
Similar for me. Drive to work 35 minutes. Get there when I need to.
