All these non-premium brands with EVs and PHEVs selling for £40k+ is bonkers. A few years ago £40k got you something quite tasty but now it gets you a Hyundai, Peugeot, Nissan, Kia or Skoda. Even a bottom of the range Dacia Duster costs £14k and an entry level Ford Fiesta is £20k. It’s absolutely mental.
You have only got to ask yourself how much a equal size premium brand would cost you kitted out with the equipment Hyundai/Kia and other non premium brands come with.
Then whats is premium today other than brand snobery. Europes premium manufacturers have stood still whils’t the likes of Korean brands have basically caught up and the million miles between them, is no longer there. BMW for example haven’t even got a EV platform yet, untill the Klause Klass comes out. Non premium brands like Hyundai/Kia have making them much more airy and desirable for EV wannabe’s,
Mercedes ICE vehicles on the scheme use Renault engines, BMW/Mercedes use Chinese battery cells in their EV and Mercedes also use Farasis battery crap, whats premium about that.
My Tucson, gets more attention of the neighbours than the BMW 220d that sits right next to it or does it look out of place next to the X1, as Gloss-Guy will tell you.
IMO there is nothing truely premium on the scheme anymore, only what they can’t sell or need to make their mandate numbers up. Off the scheme is a different kettle of fish.
