As we age gracefully, I find creature comforts are important and always use heated seats/wheel throughout the winter months, I wouldn’t have a car without them now.
With cars now having virtual cockpits, with digital speedo’s, your current speed is just a glance way and not far out of your peripheral vision and much easier to see than the old analogue dials we have managed quite well with for 40+ years I question whether a HUD is strictly necessary and what you don’t have, you don’t miss. My current car has an HUD, yet I still look where I’ve always looked and wouldn’t miss not having one.
Is the Juke Tekna better the the QQ N-Conecta really depends on how you look at. The Juke has all the creature comforts, the QQ has extra space and better power delivery both of which are nice to have, but misses out on those all important creature comforts!
An interesting proposition will be when you test drive the MG’s or in this case the ZS, which gives you the creature comforts of the Juke, very similar space of the Qashqai with similar HD 360 camera, power etc etc. The ZS also goes a step further and allow you to pre-starting climate to cool or heat the cabin ahead of journey along with pre-heating seats for cold mornings all from the APP whils’t sill in the house however it doesn’t get Bose speakers in the headrests. All in all could be best of both worlds, with the HS taking it a step further.
https://www.mg.co.uk/sites/default/files/2025-02/MG_ZS_Hybrid_Brochure_Feb_2025.pdf
Back to the Mini Monochrome, there is the possibilty of a 20m granny cable (£300) and D Line EV Ultra cable mat for across the pavement (£60) 20mm thich and aproved my most LA’s now (you’d have to check). It would be slow charging 2kW hr but 24hrs would be enough to not rely on public charging.