Renault 5

Good, there should be strict limits on EV or any other car when it comes to acceleration because the level of speeding on L roads and in general is ridiculous. Cars accelerate now so fast in such a short amount of time and a lot of people don't care about people walking or cycling on country roads or kids.

The 110 Hp in the Leaf wasn't slow, it was appropriate for a hatch. These SUV should have 100 Hp motors or less.

You're trying to get validation on your wanting to spend money ? by using the fact technology is changing ? To justify the never never of PCP ? from others hooked on PCP ? we'll always find excused to want to spend money rather than just invest.

Best , in my opinion is to buy the car outright then you know exactly what's what at the end but that's not very attractive to you because you may have checked what it costs to pay for a car over 3 years per month on back loan vs PCP ? PCP being much cheaper and car loans are mostly stretched over 5 years and low payments over 3 years is much more attractive ? clever way to get people hooked on car repayments.

PCP payments are based on the interest and calculated depreciation over the 3 years and xx mileage, this is why it's cheap per month but eventually the balloon has to be paid or you simply walk away which is what I did after the 2.5 years into ID3 PCP, I walked away from a car that I hated for various reasons using the Half rule, others have done it here.

Mostly what happens is that you end up in a cycle of car payments because the monthly payments are cheap and the car salesman will try tell you " PCP is designed to ensure you have equity in the car after 3 years" if you hear that nonsense walk away, he's talking pure shyte. If you hear him tell you to put down 20,000 Kms if you do 40,000 Kms a year, walk away because while you might save per month you will pay in depreciation at the end and risk paying 8 cent per Km if you hand the car back at the end of the contract, I avoided this by using the half ruel, whether this is standard I don't know but it's still a risk you will end up paying all mileage over the agreed amount.

If you can only afford a car on PCP then you can't afford a car, sorry if that sounds offensive and blunt, but alarm bells ring out when I read that. If you can't afford a car via bank loan then you can't afford the car. Just because you can afford the deposit and monthly payments doesn't mean you can afford the car and in 3 years if you decide you are spending far too much money you risk walking away and handing the car back and being without a car and you will be charged around 8 cent per km of mileage over the agreed amount.

You said the only way you can afford one of these at the moment is pcp, then you say you would rather buy outright via bank loan perhaps ? but you can't afford it so why are you considering a new car ? honestly, save the money and buy a good 2nd hand car in 3 years time and you'll feel a lot better about it because once you realise how much you spent on a car and the novelty wears off and reality hits, 2 more years to go…..then 1 year……., then what ?

I Didn’t realise offering input deserved a personal attack. Your reaction says more than I ever could.