Yeah, the Kona does not offer a 360 camera, which is weird.
And, while you can’t test drive it, you can ask your salesman to drive it for you with you sitting in the passenger seat. Our first test drive with our current car, i couldn’t drive – so we had “our” guy drive it.
While you can’t judge how the steering feels etc, you can judge suspension, infotainment and all those things. It’s better than nothing.
Having looked at the reviews of the Leaf, i don’t know.. This is of course subjective, but the interior is surprisingly worse than the Kona. It’s also horribly inefficient (2kwh less capacity than the Kona, but almost 80 miles less range?), and the suspension on the 62kwh model appears to not be.. desirable.
I don’t particularly like slugging cars, but there’s better alternatives to the Leaf. Even on the scheme. And there potentially are more coming (new Niro EV).
Prior: SEAT Ateca Xcellence Lux 1.5 TSI DSG MY19, VW Golf GTE PHEV DSG MY23
Current: Hyundai Ioniq 6 Ultimate
Next: we'll see what's available in 2028.