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Diesel VRSs, sheep in wolf's clothing, as one has no choice to drive like a very average car (unless one chips it) but then it becomes an even worse polluter ! Pseudo exhaust and pseudo performance. “If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!” ― Mae West

Only accurate measure is when the fuel light comes on and it tells you there is X litres left, it is usually about 15% of the full tank capacity so about 7 litres in the later Octys. One can often drive 20, 30 Kms or more beyond zero computer range but that is a risk of course !

Your welcome. I am pretty sure my daughters get/got reduced premiums, one has a spy box in te car I provider her, ah Sheila's wheels..... https://www.choose.co.uk/guide/how-much-female-drivers-pay-car-insurance/ One common question is whether women can still get cheaper motor insurance. As lots of people know, the laws around gender and insurance were altered a few years ago - but the results of the rule changes aren't obvious. This guide covers the current laws about insurance and gender, whether women can still get cheaper car insurance, and what the future might hold. Why do women get cheaper insurance? Insurance providers have historically charged women less on their premiums. The reasoning was simple: women get in fewer accidents, so they cost the insurance brokers less money. Why do women have fewer accidents? There are a few theories as to why men are the greater risk for road accidents. First, men drive more on average: 4,209 miles a year, compared to 2,291 for women. Plus, some 80% of men have driving licences, while only 67% of women are licence holders. To get back on topic with the rate of technology progress cars will be virtually un-crash-able or we will just be a passenger in an autonomous vehicle, might even sit in the back, have a snooze. I also believe that the fact their are no F1, MotoGP women is more down to strength than talent and here is a picture of ex-World Champion Ana C who would show a clean paid of heals to me ...

Lots of data/articles on the subject....... https://www.trafficsafetystore.com/blog/who-causes-accidents/ Men Men get more DUIs, traffic violations and are deemed responsible for a greater portion of car accidents. But they also drive more miles than women—a lot more. Although a recent study indicates there are over one million more licensed female drivers than licensed male drivers, men drive about 40 percent more miles per year. Some subject experts hypothesize that men – particular men under 25 – get in more accidents because they’re more prone to aggressive behavior and risk taking. But let’s look at the numbers: Men cause 6.1 million accidents per year and women cause 4.4 million per year (National Highway Safety Administration) 105.7 million women and 104.3 million men have drivers licenses (University of Michigan’s Transportation Research Institute) On average, men drive 16,550 miles and women drive 10,142 miles per year ( Federal Highway Administration) So men account for roughly 1.73^12 miles driven per year, while women drive a combined total of 1.07^12 miles per year. That means men drive about 30 percent more miles than women. Yet, they’re implicated in slightly less than 30 percent of car accidents. Men do cause more accidents, but they are actually less at-risk than women, by a small margin. ( per mile)

I think what is trying to be attained is that you do not fire up the internal combustion engine in the cities and only when one get on the Motorway network so the 30/35 mile battery back can get you to the M25 or the M40/M42/M5/M6 and then one engages warp drive, or get to the High Speed Rail station which will get you to most places in England within the hour. I would have it that anyone pays the congestion/IC usage charge if the ANPR and thermal imaging camera change a user £10, £20 if they fire up their EV in an urban area for each day of usage. They probably need to bring back a £2k subsidy for proper hybrids, not these pseudo hybrids with 1kWh batteries but the ones that can get you from the centre of a city to the outskirts without using IC power or even gets you in and out of the city with IC usage. With a reasonable 4 miles per kWh then the Octy and Superb IVs might be able to do 40 miles plus with careful useage. Air quality is even an issue in a small city like Worcester never mind the 10k premature deaths in London and 5k per year n Brum due to air pollution.

They seem to be closer to £26K in England, are you getting more subsidy in Scotland or something as it is Edinburgh etc dealers that are several K cheaper. Worth collecting or getting delivered if we in England can get from Scotland. I can see this coming similar post BREXIT where cars are thousands cheaper in Ireland to UK mainland !. The winter performance sounds like it will be challenging. Got winter tyres sorted out 185/195 s, even 15 inch rims ?

Cannot remember if I have already said this but wish the fuel tank was bigger ie they had downsized from 55 litres to 50 litres plus one cannot easily fill up the expansion tank like I could on the Fabia VRS and get an extra 5 litres in there. That said the fuel economy is very good ie indicated 55 mpg long term and did 60 mpg indicated to LIverpool and back so effectively over 600 mile of range in the tank. The Octavia 4 sounds like not a very great improvement, the MK 3 is over 100 lighter than the mark 2 despite being slightly bigger. Not sure what to get next, should be electric I suppose or if hybrid then the 100 hp electric Octy with 1.4 TSI again would be acceptable but I expect it will be a high retail price but let us hope the PCP are not too bad.

Hi George, amazingly low prices and it sounds like the cars are genuinely capable of over 200 miles without too much hassle. I tried to find some locally in the midlands but on the auto-trader filters could not seem to filter down to Vauxhall, Brand New , electric cars cars and it was not giving me any result. Have you got a method of find these deals above then ????

What is important is power at points across the useable rev range rather than torque. A plot of how much horsepower is available at 20%, 30% thru to 100% of the useable revs what is the area beneath the curve for the gear change points between each gear. VW seem to have got something quite weak with the 1.5 TSI evo, a turbo petrol should generally be about 5% quicker than a diesel with the same HP due to less weight of the vehicle and less inertial mass of the engine components which have to be spun up to speed. 1.5 TSI evo seems a bit of a weak offering in the VW stable and is surpassed by engines like the Renault/Mercedes 1.3 TCE which produces more power ie over 160 hp and as much torque but is better on fuel. @shyVRS245 Here is an engine with 7 M nm of torque and over 100,000 hp, it does 20 mph in the vehicle it is fitted in to. It is power/weight and many other factors that count to fast acceleration. Built in Finland, the RT-flex96C's fourteen cylinders can generate 107,389HP with more than 7,000,000Nm of torque — that's enough to power an entire suburban town. The engine weighs 2,300 tons and stands 44-feet tall and 90-feet long – more than a four-story building.

Lucky escapes for several riders, particularly Rossi whose onboard is amazing .........

Ohh. Just started talking about this on BT Sport. Off to WSB maybe, Honda perhaps.

Well I love the 1.4 TSI 150 hp, have been looking forward to more than 7 speed so sorry to not see 8 or 9 speed boxes as with other marques and models. The proper hybrid Mk4 do sound interesting but the battery range of 30 miles a bit low for my liking as I tend to do 125 mile journeys so lecky on providing a quarter of the journey power is light. The over 7 second 0-100 km/hr also a bit shabby for such a car so hopefully reality will be in the 6s where it belongs. 8 speed box is a Japanese item so not sure VW will want to use it in large volume but rather use their own more than 7 speed box, I think the 10 speed was dropped as it was not viable. https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2019/MC-10159424-0001.pdf

Indeed, all quite strange and we are only getting part of truth from Skoda. 1.4 TSI has been measured at upwards of 160 hp on some rolling roads and seems to exhibit more tuning potential with 190 hp being quite in range with a chipping. Oddly getting more hp when chipped than the 1. TSI evo, clearly some of those NOX lower measure strangling in ways the 1.4 TSI does not. Still have not seen a reason why the hybrids/PHEVs keep the 1.4 TSI where as others have the 1.5 TSI, space or the extra tech just not needed to get the emissions where they want them. Mk 3 has a great advantage over the mk 2 ie over 100kgs and great to see the mk 4 getting its Aero Drag Coefficient down to 0.24 for the hatch and 0.26 for the estate, should help give great MPG.

Mercs should have most of their advantage back as they are allowed to drop back down to 23 psi from 27 psi. A pressure of 25 or 26 psi would have perhaps kept things interesting, shame. https://scuderiafans.com/pirelli-race-preview-2020-spanish-gp/ EOS CAMBER LIMIT MIN. STARTING PRESSURES (slicks) EO CAMBER LIMIT 23.0 psi (front) | 20.5 psi (rear) -3.25° (front) | -1.75° (rear)

What on earth happened to the latest 1.5 TSI engine over the 150 hp 1.4 TSI and older 1.5 TSI in the mk 3 ? 150 hp Petrol use to be two or three tenths quicker that the diesel and now it is the other way round. Why ? Mark 3 figures Hatch - OCTAVIA SE 1.4 TSI 150 PS 1.4 TSI 150 PS DSG 1.5 TSI 150 PS 1.6 TDI 115 PS 1.6 TDI 115 PS DSG 2.0 TDI 150 PS 0 to 60 mph - secs 7.8 7.9 7.9 9.8 9.8 8.1

We continue to install new 22 and 7 kWh chargers, many double output ones. They are not easy to install, particularly the 22 kWh as they need to tap the 3 phase supply. https://www.sourcelondon.net/new-ev-charge-points-installed-5-london-boroughs We now have over 1300 in London. Whilst London is very supportive of the change to EV it is still a 44 Borough authorities rather than the Unitary authority that Paris is for that roll out. UK government cut the EV subsidy by 20% rather than keeping it up with inflation is not helping the rolls out but EVs now are a substantial percentage of overall sales. Tesla banks at service stations seem to often have 16 chargers in their bank, shame the bigger battery non-Tesla EVs cannot use their chargers even for a price. Model 3 LR, Ford Mustang-e or Zoe seem the optimum choices. Who really knows how much we will need to travel by road over the next few months/years ?

There will be small print in the price quoted, as there already is with VAT rates if you look carefully. The 10% car duty would be on the imported price. I was the customs Officer for Mitsubishi Motors, the UK importer of Mitsubishi, who have just announced they are abandoning Europe as a territory, and the import values were interesting as it was with Korean importers I have done customs software installs for. So the 10% car duty against the Importer may not mean 10% on the RRP but certainly a heavy loading ie closer to 10% than 0% as they are not going to take all the hit of the tax. I would like to see VAT dropped back to 17.5% or even 15% to help post BREXIT which would help on the price we pay. Amazing to think that those or Northern Ireland would not be paying the 10% import duty whilst those of us on the UK Mainland would ! One could try and get a deal sown up before end of year but SUK could still ask for the import duty from you if it clears customs after 31 December 2020.

Difficult to guess where the landed cost will be in 2021. If there is no trade deal with the EU, which includes CZ of course, and where the Euro/GBP is then the landed cost next year could be closer to £37k to £40K.

Sorry to hear the above. These are bad times for many and the Government needs to rejig the economy quickly to the new normal. Covid and BREXIT are a perfect storm. Amazing to think there will be customs at Holyhead shortly and 10% car import taxes, mad world at the mo.

Impressed to hear the Mini EV is turning in some low 6s in the 0-60.

I am already with Octypus for lecky so that should work out nicely. Going to see what deals Renault have next month when I should have both an old Scenic and a Mk 4 Clio to trade in. 5.2 Miles per kWh is awesome, range would be well over 250 miles by those figures ! Still torn on which model to go for, could even be the Play with steel wheels as I have lots of Dacia and Renault wheels in the 185/15 size or could be a R135 if the PCP is a better deal overall. Thanks for sharing your experience.

Is the e-corsa a 200 mile range car in reasonable and considerate driving ?

The car's computer does tend to over read by about 5% so 83 mpg is probably somewhat less than true 80 mpg. If one is cruising at 50 mph or less the amount of horsepower to do this is less the 10 hp so one does not need much fuel to supply 10 hp or so. Do all the tricks of hyper-miling, use other vehicles to break the frontal wind resistance, coast down hills and getting near 80 mpg is entirely possible for the petrol version and the diesel version ie the 1.6 tdi with the 7 speed DSG running in ECO mode get display close to 90 mpg and be running genuine 85 mpg is possible. All that said doing this on the motorway or even A roads in the UK means running slower that many of the Articulated trucks and being a bit of a menace on the road sometimes so I tend to hop within the traffic and sometime pick a lorry travelling at around 50 mph and stay some 20 metres behind, just in his mirrors, especially when on works phone calls or early for a meeting. Something we do on the naked motorcycles sometimes, especially in to a headwind, to give our necks a rest and it helps mpg too. Amazing what one can do with a bit of slipstreaming............. or how about 127.3 mph...... https://cycling.ahands.org/bicycling/datewithdeath.html

But companies do, £750 a month for my company car allowance and £400 a month on my fuel card ie £1150 per month. They could provide an really good EV ie a high spec Tesla which would probably only use about £100 of energy per month to cover my 2000 miles a month and save themselves hundreds of pounds a month over their existing expenditure. Plus gain greener credentials.

Well done Red Bull KTM Brad.......... Good day for Red Bull Motorsport !