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SMART CAR BARGAINS?

Much as I hate to say this, I suspect the future of personal transport [ an enclosed vehicle whereby the owner has the freedom to travel as an autonomous individual or with family anywhere they want in their own controlled space as opposed to public transport under someone else's control ] may ultimately lie with small vehicles like this. The popularity of this recently brought into focus with covid 19 where people have , when possible, chosen their own "individualised travel space" over public transport. If it came down to a hard choice between a dinky EV or packed like sardines in the bus or train which would you chose? 🤔
 
Decent value.
Whats the range like on these ?
 
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:p :cool:
 
Their range is not good :( and when considered against their list price makes them poor value against other similar small EV such as the rival VAG stable VW Up and Skoda citigo- or Renault Zoe etc however with the substantial discounts apparently on offer that does something to redress the balance :) if the EV purchaser can live with the reduced range and wants a small EV from the Mercedes stable.:cool:
 
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grober said:
if the EV purchaser can live with the reduced range and wants a small EV from the Mercedes stable.:cool:
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We just wanted something to drive to the office and back: 28-30 miles round trip, so this fits perfectly.
Driving to the shops, as we live in a small village, say between 5 and 15 miles one way, works fine too.
Anything longer than 40 miles one way, we use A200.

I have to say, it's a good fun to drive and a reasonably nice place to be in.
The seats are very comfortable; love the matt grey and glossy dark red - looks even better than in the brochure; the gearstick is distinctively non-Mercedes, but I can live with that; as I ticked all the available boxes, there are a few niceties to play with ... ;)
For us, it's certainly not a replacement for a petrol car, just an addition, for a specific purpose.
 
What's that top spec category on these? To the uninitiated, they all sound very important.
 
I must have a go in an electric one, but I love our petrol ForFour. Fantastic little car.
 
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Edition One is very limited (as in no choice at all) in its colour, paint type, etc, plus those silly door stickers - so wasn't for me.
I might have missed something, but to me Prime Exclusive has all the advantages and none of the limitations.

Despite not planning to drive farther, than about 30 miles one way, we actually went on a 100-mile round trip today, to visit Roundcorner brewery in Melton Mowbray, with a short pit-stop at a 22kW charging station on the way (Coplow Centre in Billesdon:

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Who said you can't get a good charge out in the sticks? :p
The trip was very enjoyable ...

On a somewhat negative note - what idiot decided to do away with online manual and uploaded only a question/answer type of "interactive" manual? I suppose that would be okay for the morons who come up with "I bought a new car, what that button does?" on the forum, however for those of us able to read, this is a nuisance! Luckily the printed version came with the car, but I would love to have a proper pdf manual, which I can read on my computer, phone, etc. The app is the same - 2020 model has no owner's manual as such, just Q&A :wallbash:
 
GLK said:
Edition One is very limited (as in no choice at all) in its colour, paint type, etc, plus those silly door stickers - so wasn't for me.
I might have missed something, but to me Prime Exclusive has all the advantages and none of the limitations.

Despite not planning to drive farther, than about 30 miles one way, we actually went on a 100-mile round trip today, to visit Roundcorner brewery in Melton Mowbray, with a short pit-stop at a 22kW charging station on the way (Coplow Centre in Billesdon:

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Who said you can't get a good charge out in the sticks? :p
The trip was very enjoyable ...

On a somewhat negative note - what idiot decided to do away with online manual and uploaded only a question/answer type of "interactive" manual? I suppose that would be okay for the morons who come up with "I bought a new car, what that button does?" on the forum, however for those of us able to read, this is a nuisance! Luckily the printed version came with the car, but I would love to have a proper pdf manual, which I can read on my computer, phone, etc. The app is the same - 2020 model has no owner's manual as such, just Q&A :wallbash:
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Well good luck with that lads,cannot see me buying one to do short distances,GLK used a roadside charge point and he got what he paid for and at a decent charging rate on his medium distance trip,,my thoughts are these electric cars in general are way too expensive,I keep wondering when the guy is going to pop up and say we fooled you the Tesla is only 15 grand new,which is about what it is worth,a electric motor and a battery with a unknown lifespan.
I was reading What Car and they had a couple giving the facts as they see them on owning electric cars since 2015,I thought their views would be good to hear,well we got the usual about how cheap they are to run and they did journeys in them,near the end of their advert for electric cars we had this,in all that time from 2015 we have only has to be recovered at night twice from motorway services :eek:,we now have three different routes when we do a trip with electric hook ups showing on our sat nav.
 
I'd consider one as a local run around in order to take the weight off my M113 as a daily driver. However, as of this term, the boy is walking to school, so I've continued my lockdown habit of cycling to work and back. That saves loads of money, but also means that the car is used infrequently, which isn't great for them.

Mrs Bolide has an Audi A2 1.4L petrol which is an excellent and economical town car.
 
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Bobby Dazzler said:
My word, that’s a discount and a half 👍🏻
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It isn’t really : half the quoted reduction is the government grant , which will always be applicable , with MB and the dealer contributing very roughly 1/12 of the price .

if you choose to take their finance to cover the rest you don’t own the car after their 48 months .

At least , here in Scotland you can obtain six years interest free finance , as well as the grants , and free charging at any public point , plus zero road tax . So for very roughly £200/month plus insurance you can own one outright and run it with nothing further to pay , but it is still a helluva lot of money for a small tin box on wheels which I might run alongside another car but could never have as my only car .

prices still need to come down substantially.
 
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At least , here in Scotland you can obtain six years interest free finance , as well as the grants , and free charging at any public point , plus zero road tax . So for very roughly £200/month plus insurance you can own one outright and run it with nothing further to pay , but it is still a helluva lot of money for a small tin box on wheels which I might run alongside another car but could never have as my only car .
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One of the things up here that has had me pondering.
My other half does "lots" of little journeys around town, school run etc. and I've wondered if she would be better using a little electric for free. Less the car cost of course.
I'll have to work out how much she spends on fuel. Maybe 13k pa, so likely more than £1k in fuel.

Think we can even get a free charge point installed at home here?
 
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