Electric Vehicles: What have you spotted?

[myglaren]

Not actually spotted and only a hybrid but daughter has been swanning about in the new XC90 from the place she works.
Got right up the nose of a bloke in the back seat who thought that he should have been the driver. If only he knew of her driving experience.

She's going to call in with it next week as she will be coming for coffins. If it goes quiet I am in one of them.
(Coffin factory a quarter of a mile from me, right next to where I worked in the 80s).

[CitroJim]

She's going to call in with it next week as she will be coming for coffins. If it goes quiet I am in one of them.

I sincerely hope not Steve...

[mickthemaverick]

That cannot be Steve, it just wouldn't be right to take you away in a Volvo!!

[myglaren]

It's OK, it will really be a Geely.

[NewcastleFalcon]

Is an open mind required here? Nice colour, has a bit of a presence, stands out in the car park...

Neil

[CitroJim]

For a BMW that's quite reserved and sober!

[Rp0thejester]

Does that model come with indicators or is it still an optional extra?

[mickthemaverick]

They all come with indicators as standard Ryan, it's the column stalk that's an extra!!

[CitroJim]

They all come with indicators as standard Ryan, it's the column stalk that's an extra!!

Funny you should say that Mick, last night I had a strange dream where I hired a van... I was given an indicator stalk to fit before I could drive away in it

[Armidillo]

This is getting really weird - two weeks ago a 4007 owner posted on Aussie Frogs that after sitting 'for a while' the car won't start. He has just posted the following photo (presumably that is actually the wiper stalk that's missing - but near enough):

[myglaren]

Absolutely scads of them and only driven four miles.
Including an electric Mustang. Ugly!

[mickthemaverick]

I'm not sure if this is a first photo for the thread? A very distinctive Ora!

Mtmo

[NewcastleFalcon]

Yes, that would be the first FCF original photo Mick, well spotted and well photographed.

It's an example not of China flooding the European market with cheap EV's but China not rocking the boat and enjoying the price and profit premium of selling their vehicles pretty much in line with the European going rate for similar class vehicles.

From the archives...

Great Wall's potentially disruptive EV the "Ora Good Cat", has made it to Europe and Peter Vardy's branded as the "Ora Funky Cat". With the passage of time, it has arrived in Europe/UK not at a disruptive price, but at a price which fits in with what they are competing with in Europe.

Ora Funky Cat to Go on Sale in UK in November 2022

Great Wall Motors (GWM) has appointed Peter Vardy as the first dealer for its new Ora electric car brand.

Great Wall have an outlet at Coldstream, so every chance funky cats may make their way to the Borders.

Previous post on thread

Avid readers of the this thread will have come across Great Wall's Ora Brand Jonny, but nice walk through. Would have liked it to be a little more disruptive in price point. Chinese Standard Price £11,500, but unfortunately Europe's market is overpriced, and who would blame them for looking at the spec of their own car, and the competition, and just pricing it at a start price of £25,000 (before plug in grant) couple of thousand under its rivals, rather than being truly disruptive.

As reported here ( viewtopic.php?p=698917#p698917 ) Great Wall and Barcelona have been cosying up for a European manufacturing base.

Neil

[RichardW]

What's the range on this????

[NewcastleFalcon]

The much maligned Jaguar I-Pace, but here presented in a gorgeous almost black deep blue.

It maybe has the "Car of the Year" curse and in 2019 swept the board with European and World Titles. India's finest built in Austria. Plenty kicking about, and this is a very nice example in a colour which got the nod for a shutter click.

Ian Callum, COTY 2019, Le Grand-Saconnex (GIMS9894)
Matti Blume, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons





Neil