I wrote an update earlier and it didn’t appear on the thread but disappeared ?. I’ll try again…..
Many thanks to those who have provided some answers to my 5 questions. Much appreciated. Any further input from others would be most welcome.
I’m delighted to report that my excellent contact at BMW has found an iX1 20e M-Sport with pretty much all the options that I’d add, and has arranged for it to be delivered to my local dealers tomorrow so that it can be fully charged and prepped for me to test it for a full day on Friday. How good is that? Having it for a full day will allow time for me to pretty much look into everything bar charging. Naturally I want to see if it’s powerful enough given the weight of EVs, but In particular I want to spend some time making adjustments through iDrive to see if I can counter some of the negative aspects that really put me off the 30e X-Line that I’d been given for a day last year. I didn’t change the setup last time but may have inadvertently triggered the most aggressive regenerative braking setting, which I really disliked. By the way, when an EV does regenerative braking, do the rear brake lights come on? It slowed so violently last time I was worried about being rear-ended!
Interesting development on the Hyundai Tucson front as well today. As the U.K. spec has been released today for the facelift model, I’ve established that matrix headlights are being introduced and will be standard on the Ultimate. I can’t find reference to head up display which is also now available on the facelift for the first time. However, where Hyundai have given in the one hand, they have taken away in the other. Leather trim is now a cost option (was standard on Ultimate) and, rather unhelpfully, the price of it is absent from the price list ?. This means that the £3.5k price difference between the Tucson and iX1 (once options are added to the latter) will narrow by however much the cost of the leather upgrade is ?.
