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37.6 is better than 38.6....To cheer you up am on the cusp of posting my first experiences of living with a 2.5 ton, 5 meter long, electric SUV, I know that's just the kind of car you love .

Hope they get on with any possible operation ASAP and you make a good recovery. Sepsis of any kind is horrible at the best of times, but I did met a 80 year old recently who spent 4 weeks in intensive care with penumbra and within 2 weeks of getting home was back doing in gardening!! So some good mental attitude will help as much as anything else.

Did a half marathon and sprint triathlon 18 months ago.... Than my daughter was born and cannot see me having the free time to train for the next decade!!

^ Still got my wife's car to sort out, she wad adamant the X was too big for her, but I notice she has put the spare key into her wallet.... I take that as a sign she likes the X, the only barrier now to a full EV driveway is cash flow and Jaguar to release the full details of the iPace .

Its the cheapest and slowest Model X which you cannot order anymore 60D X, still fully loaded with 4 adults and 2 kids gets to 30mph quicker than anything else I've owned, after that it's about the sane as the Z, so adequate as the family wagon . I still like the Leaf, total cost of ownership over 2 years is barely enough to pay for the 6 heated leather seats on the X!!

^ Been taking out family friends(+kids) in it all afternoon. The Leaf was the butt of many jokes, this thing however is getting a rather different reaction .

The nice guys from Nissan have been to see the Leaf, windscreen now markes indicating its fate to be auctioned off. Cannot quite believe I've been driving around in an EV for 2 years, seems like a lot longer with all the various posts I've made here . I'll be lying if I said the Leaf was 'perfect', but it has been cheap (£350 of electricity to do 14k miles) and it convinced me EVs are the future of motoring. Just like the first car I learnt to drive in, a £500 Nissan Micra, I'll always remember the Leaf as my first EV, and as the car that bought my daughter home for the first time:love: So it's good bye for me to Nissan ownership (for now), but the replacement is rather tasty...Plenty of more about that to come .

If it makes you feel better we are in the same position. We are itching to exchange contacts, so is our buyer and the vendor. But incomplete legal paperwork from our side holding things up, paid for a big named solicitor this time round, so at least getting a constant flow of updates of where things are.

^Just go with a decent branded BBK. If your really pushing the envelope in the grand scheme of things its not that much extra cash, and it saves you the headache of tyring to build a random collection of parts. Used BBKs come up for sale on BMW forms quite regularly as well, so if you know what you want and keep your eyes open you can grab a good deal, but they do tend to sell quickly so you need to be ready to comit as soon as they pop up. What's the issue with going up to 19inch wheels?

http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/motor-shows-la-motor-show/2018-jaguar-i-pace-electric-suv-revealed-plus-exclusive-autocar Looking like the real deal, and am 100% sure the iPace will be on UK roads before the Tesla Model 3. Only issue now is the price, I reckon your need to spend £60k on even the most basic version, add in a few options and itll be closer to £70k. So an 'affordable' car the iPace will certainly not be, but its in the ball park figure of a RR/SQS7/Model X etc.... Humm if the iPace turns out well and I can get decent trade in on the X, my Tesla ownership history may not even last 12 months!!

This new R looks horrific, cannot quite believe its from the same company that has made the NSX. It looks like they did the homer simpson school of car design, asked a bunch of 10 year old what they wanted and went with it....The new Civic in standard form actually looks alright, but this thing is an utter mess.

Those surely cannot be the official pics from Honda??

We've gone for 6 seater option so no middle seat, but two third row seats with ISOFIX points. Our X is now finally in the UK but sadly we are not. But will have it on the drive very soon . But I don't want to distract this Jag thread with anyone more Tesla talk.... I'll save that for another post, am sure a few on here cannot wait to hear more about EVs .

^ Am interested how I get on with the X, for ferrying the sprog around am sure its going to be great interms of interior space comfort, but not sure about the size. If I really cannot get on with it than lucky residuals are excellent so swapping out to something like an iPace will be easy.

But by SUV standards the iPace is 'compact', Jag quoting roughly 1.8 meter width 4.7 length. That's basically the same size as a F30 3 series. The Model X is 2.1 meters by 5!!....It's big but the New Range Rover Discovery is virtually the same size, as is the X90, X5 and even Ford Edge. Like it or not these cars are selling more much better than any 'sports car'. Porsche sold 220k cars in 2015/16, only 30ksh were 911s, the Macan/Cayenne sold 160k in total (70% of cars sold). This makes SUVs sales more important to Porsche than 'sports' car, like it or not this is what the mass market wants at present.

Solar PVs simply wouldn't generate enough kWh to make it worth while. The efficiency/cost balance isnt quite there yet. A reasonable size roof solar PV system will generate 4kw per hr in perfect situation at a cost of roughly £3-5k for the panels. Most EVs can average 3-4 miles per kWh, so your gain 10 mile per hour charge in perfect conditions once efficiency loss accounted for. Your have to do something like this

Was dreading trying to insure the Model X, hardly any on the road, very expensive parts, can only be repaired at Tesla etc.....Had a few silly quotes from comparison websites, than got a tip Direct Line had done some kind of deal with Tesla. Result = fully comp, inner city postcode, £780 all in, even the Leaf was going to be £500 this year .

Just like how the 911 still looks like a squashed Bettle after all these years, honesty you would think Porsche designers could at least try to not just use the copy/paste button in the design studio But subjective looks aside the specs are sensible enough to make 2018 production/launch look realistic. 90kWh battery Dual motor Heat pump Seating for full five adults Rapid charger on board Providing Jag can keep the price not too far north of £60k they are on to a winner. Personally I'm more tempted to down a preorder on the iPace than the Model 3.

Not entirely sure why but really wish i had the chance to own one of these.

My daughter is starting her love of video games and cars already, her feet cannot reach the pedals and she cannot see over the wheel yet but it's a start

I pay £40/month for the privilege of parking 2 miles away from work, it's a nice walk on a sunny day but in winter it's painful....It's one of the reasons I cycle to work.

Looks like quite a few people are getting monster trucks, ours arrive in around 3 weeks. Only concern I have is the width, any issues with the Edge and narrower roads. Given how some full fat RR are driven I suspect you get use to the extra gearth quickly??.... I hope so anyways, the latest arrival on the drive is going be around 80cm wider than the K10 Micra I learnt to drive in!!

That thing is going to keep on working forever!!

As is mpg/servicing when compared to deprecation, but desipte the average UK motorists doing less than 7000 miles per year the rise of diesels have been unstoppable. Though hopefully that will change. Like it or not VED do drive people's decision making process.

^The £40k+ car bit apply, but you don't pay the £140 bit or any initial tax lump. I don't actually mind that, people who can afford a £40k car should be able to afford £310 a year. Taxation has always been used to drive public spending, its one of main reasons diesel sales now are on par with petrol sales. EV/hybrid sales have been doubling every year but still only made up of 4% of total sales compare to nearly 40% in Norway. So plenty more room to go. The new rules seem overall pretty fair, am sure the EVs been exempt will change in the future. Still if incentives are around now why not take advantage, the Tesla we have arriving comes with 'free for life' Supercharging access, where as all new Teslas ordered now have to pay 20p/kWh to use the Superchargers which would be £10-20 for a 0-100% recharge, that's a big change from 'free'!!! So even the manufacturers are already removing incentives as the products become more popular....