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Shape. Different. Bolsters.

A Dacia Jogger Hybrid is under £24,000 in the UK. A Scala £22,000 - £27,000. Apples & Oranges.

30 minutes from the South on the M77 running down & into Glasgow makes a difference if the toe is off the accelerator, and many other similar situations. None of it is complicated. It is like riding a push bike on a route where there is plenty freewheeling compared to having to be pedalling all the time. A circular route in one direction can take less energy / fuel than doing it in the other direction. Driving an EV easily shows just how much different that can be as well. Kodiaq or any vehicle if you do regular longer trips do it sometimes 'Coasting enabled' and sometimes not and see if there is a difference. Or do it for full tanks of fuel end see if you get any difference. Coasting is there if you want to have enabled and costs nothing to try, it certainly does not use more fuel. As for ACT then that is just part of the type of vehicle / engine purchased. Some can hypermile and drive economically without these features helping. CC or ACC on kind of makes any potential fuel saving redundant with 'coasting'.

Scout seats are not the same as Monte Carlo seats. £162.10 They had better be good. Doubt they will be, but someone just needs buy them, fit them and see.

@Danoid Certainly attempts at enforcement by officers of the law on drivers of Mk2 Fabia vRS where the muppets did not know or believe that the DRL,s on which are the Side Light units but not dim when DRL,s. There are a few threads on that from a decade back. There are no Fog Lights on them. The Skoda Brochure says there is and so did sales staff, until you ask the Police Officer or the salesperson where the Front Fog Light switch is. Then there are the MOT testers failing the Mk2 vRS Fabia because the 'Blue Dummy' bulb in the headlight does not work, no side lights. Ignorant of the Sidelight / DRL,s they fail the car. Some even try replacing the Blue Dummy Bulb in the headlight unit.

They are annoying as standard. Does make up for people that do not indicate though as it gives a clue they are cornering. But then if they need extra light to see corners and there is nobody to annoy the Full Beam might as well be on not Cornering Fox lights. This is a EU allowed thing that should never have been approved in the UK IMO. If Fog Lights really, there is no fog.

It is perfect for me for when i want to head off fully charged and have travelled through to Dundee before going. Broxden Park & Ride Perth Supercharger would be even better if it was Tesla non-Tesla as i have used 1/3rd or more of my range by the time i am passing there going the way i do regularly avoiding Dundee.

@J.R. I never did 20 miles or even 8 miles further than i was going to complete a regen or to get a blocked DPF light out. I just paid attention next time i was heading out of town how many miles were required. The thing is that a vehicle that could do 630-730 miles or more from a 63 litres tank easily could not do 5 x 5 miles from a gallon of diesel doing cold starts, or even sometimes without Light on, then more fuel was wasted with regens.

Narrow cars, 3 door cars, often cars that Disabled Drivers have of any size might be chosen because of wide doors or wide opening doors. That is why they need space to get out. The worst i had for getting stuck out of was the Toyota iQ because they are not narrow and the door is rather long. I park so as not to hit other cars and be able to get out the car, come back and no way can get back in. Quite often.

Do not judge how a car is parked from a picture unless you know what was either side of the vehicle when parked. I am parked often so i can get my door open, even in wide Disabled Parking bays. In a picture above i was parked at a hospital leaving space to get a passenger a wheel chair along side. Other cars can be parked badly, or as they need for the space. At EV chargers you can have to go at odd angles to get a charger cable, or just because some other parked badly. On here there was a picture of ridiculous parking in the middle of a car park using 4 bays. The thing was the person had parked the night before when the place was covered in snow.

My 2016 2.0TDI SCR DSG Alhambra that could do 60 mpg on runs and no regens to bother about and that started just sipping Adblue would after about 20,000 miles and a year if driven about 5 miles a day in town for 5 days come up with 'Clogged DPF', at first 8 miles of a run put the light you, after about 2 years it got to needing 20 miles before it went out. By 3 year old it was not using hardly any Adblue and clogging lots if used as a town car for a week. The last of the Great Defeat Device VW TDI,s. Amazing long run efficiency. Some poor sod got landed with it after Arnold Clark bought it from Motability via BCA. http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/464465-20tdi-150-dpf-warning

@aerofurb I understood that. Just not what tariff of public charging your friend the Motoring Journalist is using in their calculations. Supposedly the average public charging tariff according to the motoring press, and experts is a Median of 79 pence a kWh. That is nonsense actually as far as when Slow / Fast charging is the tariff appropriate. Like for PHEV charging. But if a PHEV is charged at 79 pence a kWh and takes 13 kWh then even if getting 3 miles a kWh that is £10.27 to get 39 miles on electric.

The Tesla Supercharger on the outskirts of Dundee is worth using 'Tesla non Tesla' now that Dundee Council has a ridiculous tariff / connection charge at their hubs. Especially with so much renewable electricity available in the region and battery storage. 'They encouraged the uptake, get the reputation of Electric City and then have taken the total pith IMHO.'

Not a characteristic. That is Main Dealership speak. Excuses. You should not need to put the transmission in N, you could drive in D and enable 'Coasting Mode' and then the car will be freewheeling to hear it. What DSG, is it a DQ381? 7 speed wet clutch. The Servicing / oil & filter change is not due until 128,000 km. But sadly there are more and more having issues. ? Is there a record of the essential HALDEX Service having been done at 48,000 km?

@aerofurb The Journalist needs to be considering if it is many a BEV like a TESLA Tesla Supercharging @ around 50 pence a kWh and getting 4 miles per kWh. £6.50 if that is the cost of a gallon of petrol will get 13 kWh of electric and take 52 miles. If getting 5 miles a kWh than 65 miles. if paying 65 pence a kWh and getting 4 miles a kWh then £6.50 is taking you 40 miles. ................. As far as public charging a PHEV and taking 13kWh in it is all about what the tariff actually is for a 7 kW AC charger. Getting only 2.5 miles a kWh public charging & paying 40 pence for 13 kWh is £5.20 and taking you 32.5 miles. £6.50 would buy 16.25 kWh and that x 2.5 miles is 40.6 miles. All about the Public Charging tariff really because once it is at 55 pence and higher running on electricity is hardly economic. @13 x 55 pence. £7.15 to go 32.5 miles if only getting 2.5 miles a kWh.

@skomaz just yesterday a nice green metallic Offroader was parked next to my MINI and when I got near it was a brand new Ignis but looked bigger than when I last went to try one. I know it is not maybe just more rounded and it was sitting on All Season tyres. I must try one again when it comes to replacing my SX4. @wyx087 the table has the present MINI (F56) with the 140 mile range, the small battery new one with 190 miles MINI Cooper E. & more torque. And then the bigger battery new one with 218 ps, called a Cooper SE. They are J01. The ACEMAN electric is the not yet out in-between size Electric MINI. (J05) and the BIG Countryman is not on there. The ACEMAN might just be the best of the bunch for just an Electric Car of not too big dimensions. You are going to have to be optioning better or more suitable tyres then the standard ones from the factory or fitting different tyres if yo want foul weather performance. Grip. (Pity they do not make that clear.)

The NEW MINI Electric & MINI Aceman Electric are porky for what they are size wise. New MINI Cooper E is 100 kg heavier to supposedly go 50 miles further with the bigger battery compared to the Old MINI SE. (Fictional ranges.)

You have lost me. Do you ever just drive the car? Stick the thermostat in a pot and heat the water and measure the temp accurately. Use the correct thrmostat. You just use the strength / ratio of Anto-freeze / coolant relevant to the location, climate etc. Do not use Anti-freeze if the Ambient temperature is not going to be getting as low as the freezing point of H20. But if you are leaving in the Coolant / anti corrosion liquid all year and you get freezing weather you better have Anti-freeze in the system, or expect core plugs to be doing their job. Much cheapness. Good for checking coolant, & good for engine oil temps just put down the dipstick tube.

@D.FYLAKTOS Why. Is it not normally around 90*oC that the coolant is usually required to get up to for efficiency of keeping the engine oil at around 90*oc and bringing it back down around 90*oC. Engine oil being a coolant as well as whatever coolant is used.

@linni That is how you roll then. Or not how you roll as it appears from what you experienced Urban Cycle might well be for urban locations. Town or city. Lets go Rural, countryside, back roads, dual carriageways & motorways & getting places over distances between urban area. In that big lump or not big lump of a not city sized vehicle. Location location location. A strong statement because certain conditions apply. Go from the coast to the hills generally you are going up, inland, coming back down. Perfect hill roads. Is Estonia not like that?

He keeps on about the likes of MFG and smelly forecourts, slippy foreourts. Odd as the Charger Bays have no need to be slippy and no need to go across in front of petrol or diesel pumps if you want to go into the shop, or the nearby KFC, McDonalds, Greggs etc. 'Smells & Fumes' 'Muddy & diesel on your boots' WTF? I have used a few sites now and nice and easy but expensive. The Ionity membership joining and un-joining will suit me occasionally. Charging costs are just far too high now with most operators / providers.

@Winston_Woof Really, Double the damage! As to less VED. Is that less than what, once EV,s are Taxed / VED? Less than the ICE that are £0.00, or £20 or £30.? Less than vehicles Exempt from VED / MOT due to age. Historic Vehicles. Less than Mobility vehicles. Steam Vehicles. Vehicles used for agriculture, hoticulture and forestry.

Just spotted his vid that is discussed a few posts back. #breaks my heart!. Encouraging clicks. Nobody wants to help him out in the motor trade to cover the cost of driving a premium BEV as his company car other than Tax Payers. Do not buy new ones. Great advice. From a financial genius and me. Lease them when the are for Business Use. Rent the tool of the trade, especially if you are a tool.

Great reporting regardless of it being reported by the Telegram or the Telegraph. It must be true.