What are you driving at the moment?

[Stephen M]

My new car is being built next week apparently, so allowing 4-6 weeks to get delivered to UK dealer, it looks like I will be picking mine up mid - end April - just in time for my birthday

Dangerous month for birthdays, remember sending Mum a card from Germany with a note saying April 20th was not a good day to celebrate a birthday here as it was also Hitler's.

 

[Bhuna50]

Dangerous month for birthdays, remember sending Mum a card from Germany with a note saying April 20th was not a good day to celebrate a birthday here as it was also Hitler's.

Luckily mine's the 24th then

Are you living in Germany now then are you but from Gloucestershire originally? or are you back here now in sunny (today) cold Glos.

 

[Stephen M]

Living in Stroud, never actually moved full time to Germany but did a lot of short term contracts there. Decided after redundancy to enjoy myself and retrained as an EFL teacher, that allowed me a lot of German holidays but with work as well it did not eat into my redundancy pay off too much.

Given the current state of things am wishing I stayed and applied for citizenship.

 

[Bhuna50]

Living in Stroud, never actually moved full time to Germany but did a lot of short term contracts there. Decided after redundancy to enjoy myself and retrained as an EFL teacher, that allowed me a lot of German holidays but with work as well it did not eat into my redundancy pay off too much.

Given the current state of things am wishing I stayed and applied for citizenship.

Wow - an English Football League teacher LOL

I was born in Cheltenham and now live in Gloucester.

 

[Stephen M]

Wow - an English Football League teacher LOL

I was born in Cheltenham and now live in Gloucester.

Was burn within the Trinity at Stroud which makes me a true Gothamite. No idea how that term came about but certainly precedes Batman. If you follow rugby at all, the Stroud Third XV is known as the Gothamites.

 

[Martinr36]

My new car is being built next week apparently, so allowing 4-6 weeks to get delivered to UK dealer, it looks like I will be picking mine up mid - end April - just in time for my birthday

2 of my daughters have their birthdays at the end of April, one on 27th and one on 29th

 

[DylBee]

Shes arrived! What a beaut she is

 

[DylBee]

Shes arrived! What a beaut she is

 

[AgentCooper]

Very nice, but what brand of potato did you use to take those pics? They're so grainy!

 

[DylBee]

Ha I was waiting for that! The original photo quality was fine, its my crude (and total lack of) skill in resizing that's led to the poor quality

 

[Bhuna50]

With my car being built next week, I've just received a picture of the first set of components being installed:

 

[Stephen M]

Picking up my Volkswagen ID.3 on Thursday, will actually be ready Monday but could not risk paper work from DVLC getting here in time, need it to swap number over.

Dealer has agreed to a bit of fun and is arranging parking spaces, cars side by side but old one facing away and new front on, so can get a picture of the two, both with same number plate.

 

[Stephen M]

Just picked up my ID.3, first impressions very good, nice driving position and very comfy.

Luckily got a holiday in Devon booked first day campsites re-open so can give it a good run.

 

[Bhuna50]

Logging on zapmaps to plan your journey now? Or a better route dot com. [emoji3][emoji3]

Been there doing that. lol. And my EV is only in building this week lol.

We’re off on holiday 24 May for the week then September too. Devon then Cornwall.




Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[Martinr36]

Logging on zapmaps to plan your journey now? Or a better route dot com. [emoji3][emoji3]

Been there doing that. lol. And my EV is only in building this week lol.

We’re off on holiday 24 May for the week then September too. Devon then Cornwall.




Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That's the problem with full EV, finding places to charge up, glad i went hybrid, really impressed with the fuel consumption, getting anywhere between about 50-70 to the gallon on short local hops, did a 5 mile trip the other week, got 99.9 mpg out of it

 

[DylBee]

Amazing economy figures there Martin, really impressive! Im getting 34mpg (not bad for 315bhp) from the Type R, oh and a scraping brake shield. The joys

 

[SpyderTracks]

That's the problem with full EV, finding places to charge up, glad i went hybrid, really impressed with the fuel consumption, getting anywhere between about 50-70 to the gallon on short local hops, did a 5 mile trip the other week, got 99.9 mpg out of it

That’s impressive!

 

[Martinr36]

Yeah I'm well pleased with it, going down to my daughter in Peckham on Saturday, so be interesting to see what type of fuel consumption i get doing motorway and driving across London, making sure i stay out of any of the zones

 

[Stephen M]

One thing you notice in an EV is the drop in mileage during the winter, about 20 miles a charge on the Hyundai.

For icey mornings it is great having it plugged in and running the air con from the app, windows clear and car warm when I get in.

This one is supposed to do 336 miles on a full charge so can do Stenhousemuir with only one stop if I want. As charging is £20 a year in Scotland it will be a tad cheaper than going by train.

 

[Martinr36]

Electric seats kick in pretty quick in the C-HR 😁 😁