Dacia Spring EV

Not sure you'll even get the Inster for anything close to 18,995 either. Didn't someone post earlier their basic model was 20,495 on the road?

Can you get 0% HP on the inster like the spring? Or a rate lower than 5% at least?

Just shows you've to look at everything, the spring is straightforward 36 x 500, the inster has a lot of parts going on there to keep the advertised monthly at 175

At 0% there's actually no point in putting a deposit in unless it's a trade in and you don't want to sell privately. You could if you wanted though.

I have a car on order at 0% HP over 48 monthd, I am not trading in.

I could have put in a cash deposit and brought down monthly payment but really couldn't come up with any reason to do so.

Eh make the monthly payments easier on yourself because €500 a month is a lot.

In fairness 500 a month appears a lot but it is just in our minds. Lets say you have that deposit of 9k. You keep it in a saving account and pay monthly from it 250 and 250 from the current account (not to mention some "investment" opportunities). I posted the comparison just to warn people of the marketing traps. 200 a month for a car sound interesting but considering that you pay 2k in interest … 2k is 4 monthly repayments on the other car. As PCP goes I think there are better value offers out there from the likes of VW, Peugeot, Citroen, Nissan all playing around 200ish monthlies.

Had a look last week at the Inster and the Spring, an elderly neighbour was interested in a small EV. In my opinion there is no comparison between the two, the Inster felt a quality small car, with a lovely dash and comfortable, adaptable interior. The Spring very much felt a budget car, but it's most serious omission was not having a height adjustable drivers' seat, so this (smaller) potential customer was unable to get a safe comfortable driving position.

I am all for small cars like these, I reckon the market is bigger than we think, but the Spring is priced too close to the Inster to be competitive. The Inster is far from over rated..

I sat in one the other day as well for Mrs. S. agree it's completely budget when compared to the Niro/Kona or Ionic/EV6 but it's also vastly cheaper. It's on par with an ix20 which I asked to test drive for ICE comparison

They were selling a test drive Kona about 1.5 years old and about 4k on the clock for €33k so this space needs to be watched for the inster test drive cars in a few years

I agree that it is overpriced. A recession might sort that out.