Today I got to the Nissan showroom. I must start off by saying I expected big things.
Sat in the car, it’s really comfortable. For cloth seats it’s easy to get in, electric adjustment really helped. Then I looked at a dash that looked like it was designed recently, much more so than the other two. The floor, however, does feel high. It’s the only car I’ve got in and wondered if others could get in, both my mum and father in law can manage the ZS but with some difficulty, this wasn’t easier.
Here’s where a lot of personal preference will make a difference. There’s no buttons, they’re all touch sensitive thing that’ll vibrate to confirm you’ve hit a button (but not necessarily the one you were after). The steering wheel felt a little small, but not too much so. The central consol feels like it’s huge but can be moved, which means you can put it where it makes most sense to you and be done with it.
Those electrically adjustable seats are also heated, the only one I’ve been in so far that doesn’t cost more to do so. On the subject of options, the boot is electric already, not only that but hands free!!! Wave a foot in the right place when you’ve the keys in your pocket and the boot opens. Magic! Well, an expensive extra.
So, as expected the Ariya is well worth the extra AP, if you have it, as it’s by far the better, newest and most equipped of the three. If distance is everything, the ID5 has the most range and quite a few nice things included but feels rather last decade in comparison. The Skoda would be out of the picture entirely except, if you add that £2,700 pack, you get almost everything the Nissan offers but with a little more range and buttons for heating controls. It’s a little (very) thing but it can make all the difference, if you don’t want all this haptic vibrate when you click some plastic hoping it was the button you were aiming for type control, you need either a permanent passenger who will do that for you, or the Skoda. Also, Adding that pack to the Skoda brings it slightly above the Ariya but only £405, which when you’re already at 8 grand isn’t much.
Hmm, decisions, decisions. Final verdict? Nah, not for me to conclude yet. I’d need to drive them, or at least some of them, then see quite where we end up.
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