The Car thread

[Tommy G]

13 minutes ago, tom27111 said:

 

Horrendous interiors on the Renault 5. I'm not sure why anyone would do that. The Alpine version is nice.

 

The New Micra is coming out in the next few weeks, basically the same car, looks pretty good. Hoping the inside isn't as garish as the Renault.

 

I'm really hoping Nissan do a Nismo version that rivals the Alpine one, but they probably won't.

This sounds like a Nissan plug to me 

 

You can't compare a micra to the legendary Renault 5 - I think they probably focused on the outside and the fact it was such an iconic car, and left the inside as meh. 

[Bellend Sebastian]

13 minutes ago, Greg2607 said:

still loving our BMW i4.  It's got all the bells and whistles we would ever need, feels premium AND has decent range as well.   Only gripe is rear leg space............ Conversely, I've got a new job at work as a secondment, which comes with a company car.  As it's only a secondment, I've had to take a reallocation vehicle and I have a 2023 Hyundai Kona.... which is absolutely Pony. Awful car. 

Is the Kona a petrol one? I was given a brand new Bayon as a courtesy car when my Ioniq 5 went in for some work.

 

It absolutely blows my mind that to buy the Bayon new would cost about the same as the used price of my 2 year old car. There is no reason on earth why anyone would choose the new car if they'd driven them both

[FoxesDeb]

3 hours ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

Went to look at a Tuscon like every man and his dog at the weekend. They were fine. Then got pulled into the Renault garage by a friend that worked there and he showed us their Austral, basically the same kind of thing. In base trim it was a bit pants but they had a lovely Alpine edition in matte grey. Probably going to test drive it.

 

Was surprised at the sheer amount of models Renault had and some of them looked really smart. The Rafale Apline edition in particular but I would suspect the deprecation of that would be savage. 

We have a 2025 Renault Captur full hybrid and we love it. We looked initially at the Austral but in the end decided just didn't need anything quite that big so replaced our 2014 diesel Captur with a new one, but from what I remember they were almost identical. 

 

My husband wanted the Alpine but we settled for the Techno with every added extra except the panoramic sunroof, it ended up cheaper but better spec'd, at least for us in Spain. 

 

 

 

 

[tom27111]

4 hours ago, Tommy G said:

This sounds like a Nissan plug to me 

 

You can't compare a micra to the legendary Renault 5 - I think they probably focused on the outside and the fact it was such an iconic car, and left the inside as meh. 

 

The Micra and the Renault 5 are literally the same car, made in the same factory, with the same chassis, underpinnings, batteries and motors.

 

You'd be crazy to buy either of them, EV depreciation is off the charts.

 

[lcfcsnow]

Always had a manual petrol car but fancy an automatic petrol hybrid maybe, seem to recall Tom advising against them a while ago in this thread though? Might have been electrics, can’t remember which specifically

[Tommy G]

2 hours ago, tom27111 said:

 

The Micra and the Renault 5 are literally the same car, made in the same factory, with the same chassis, underpinnings, batteries and motors.

 

You'd be crazy to buy either of them, EV depreciation is off the charts.

 

I was just pointing out it looks cool, agreed I wouldn’t buy either or any EV for that matter, only got one as it’s a company car. 

[The Bear]

My mate has a Kia EV, but I can't remember which number. Either a 4 or 5. It's quite nice inside but no different comfort wise to any other wannabe SUV, except it has two big horizontal screens along the dashboard for the infotainment and system info. Drives really nice though. 

[Jattdogg]

Not sure about there but over this side of the Atlantic , several car owners of electric hyundai/kids have had issues with damaged batteries not covered under warranty (ie maybe ran over some debris on a road like a box,  kids, garbage etc) and then been told they need a new entire battery for $50000  to $60000 CAD which costs the same or more as the bleeding car lol.

 

Just do your homework before committing to any EV to understand the downsides as well as upsides. Like you would for any vehicle.

Edited Tuesday at 23:48 by Jattdogg

[simFox]

On 26/04/2025 at 22:05, Tommy G said:

I’ve you looked at the iX? 

I love seeing old cars on the road.