EV recommendation

Once again you are in denial of the facts or distorting the facts by not parking your car on your drive.

Not something I have any interest in using. Any more than I do at home. It might suit gabby people, I suppose.

Perhaps. When first purchased, the Fiesta would do a *filter clean burn* at unexpected times. This function seems to have died quietly. A longish motorway run seems to do the same trick. I have replaced the injectors on the Passat (same basic engine) and arrange a similar pre-MOT run. So far so good:-)

Probably. Why is that going to be better than fully electric come servicing/MOT time?

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Not specific to EVs but voice control is (IMHO) a bit of a curate's egg. I've got it on my jalopy, and it probably has a 50% success rate in doing what I want it to do. The other 50% it either fails to do anything, or does something completely different to what I want.

Adrian

I don't use it at home either, but having recently driven an EV courtesy car where most functions were touch-screen (even heating/ventilation) I can see the advantage of voice control. So, for example, rather than looking away to where the touch areas were, and trying to change the airflow direction and temperature, it would be easier and safer to say "heating up screen" - or whatever words would be required.

We should avoid purchasing such vehicles, and complain loudly when anyone attempts to foist such upon us (as in your courtesy car). That way the message might get back to the designers.

No good saying "heating up" to the car if, in effect, its response is "up yours too, chum".

I think if your car only ever does short trips, electric is a much better fit than anything with an engine. No problem with lots of short runs and cold starts not being ideal for an engine, perhaps especially diesel. The heater works immediately.

PHEVs are a compromise. If you do most of your trips on electric it complains at you (or ours does!) that the fuel is getting old and the engine needs a run, you end up taking it out for a good run just to keep it happy. The electric range is not usually very much, then it starts the engine and insists on running it until it warms up even if it is not needed. On ours, you get less than half the power in full electric mode, which is mostly good enough (70 HP v 160 HP) but not always. They can be fun if the use case fits but they are not really good as a pure EV.

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S*it if I live to your age Tim and can still drive I wouldn't be wanting to waste my money on a Johnny-cab. Go out in style a buy some fire-breathing V12 monster and live a lot.

A list of Ford Sync3 voice commands Sync 3 is the car software supported on the touch screen.

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Some I never use and others I use quite often. The commands are preset and short. For instance if I want the DAB radio on, rather than my own play list from a USB stick, I press the speech button on the steering wheel and just say "DAB". The steering wheel also has left, right, up and down buttons where the former two changes radio channel and the latter two the radio volume.

Speak for yourself Voice command in a car can be a safety feature and can stop taking your eyes off the road to fiddle with controls.

Even if car is equipped with voice commands you don't have to use it.

Hah! Just watching one of my neighbours park his £80k Maserati 2 seater. I drove a series 2 Morgan for nearly 20 years so rather think I have had my fun!

An electric shopping trolley will be for my wife to use but I am hoping to build in some family use for when the Passat dies.

Fair enough on the series 2 :-)

I knew someone who was in a classic car club, there were 4 of them and they bought classics between them so you got to drive a different one each month. He had a 1970 Bentley T and an early Bentley Mulsanne Turbo which were his daily drivers. I don't the fuel costs were an issue at all. The club owned a Jaguar XJ12C, a Porsche 911 2.4 and a 246 Dino. He told me once when they bought a Morgan Plus 8 that had been breathed on. His words were "The noise is fabulous as are the smells. There's wood and leather and hot exhaust and oil. Oh and a strong smell of soiled pants because it's so damn quick and scary!"

All diesel engines emit a diesel smell. Some far worse than others, like all of them built before 2016

isn't that why Dennis Thatcher was never heard in public ?

Cough. Smart meters !!

Shoes or Farmers wellies ?

Or stupidly excessive to any normal person.

Like original mini's then :-)

If you said "heating up skirt", would it call the police automatically ?.