Check out the owners forums, the Ora has not had a blemish free introduction. Issues with infotainment, chargers & software. Not brilliant build quality.
Also test drive one yourself, especially with all of the safety aids you are keen on turned on. Many Chinese cars are not very good at lane keep assist, either bouncing between lanes or veering off to one side – Bjorn Nyland (he’s on you tube) is a good source of objective reviews on this sort of thing and other issues like charging times etc as he does long distance tests.
Not trying to put you off at all, just making sure you go in with your eyes open. Yes, it’s better than a clapped out C1, but so are a great many other cars out there for the same or less cash.
I agree with what you are trying to do, we did the same with our son some years back. Convinced him to get a new Citigo after his test, it was a brilliant first car and he had 4 years & over 50,000 trouble free miles out of it, rather than a clapped out £1500 banger (especially given his daily 52 mile commute to his work).
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