Fastlane wrote: ↑Wed Aug 07, 2019 3:02 pmSorry for the slightly long answer but I have a 2017 manual Leon Cupra 300 which I have on a 2 year private lease. It runs out in November and I have spent the last couple of months trying to find something to replace it with - again on a lease. As a business owner, it never made sense to get car through the business because of the high BiK rates on anything vaguely "interesting". Then a couple of weeks ago I read that the government had cut the BiK rates on all purely electric cars to 0% April 2020 and then 1 % in 2021 and 2% in 2022! This got me thinking about what sort of interesting electric cars are available, and so I booked test drives in a Jaguar i-Pace and then an Audi Etron. Neither quite did it for me as I am not a big fan of SUVs especially here in Cornwall. I have never really looked as Tesla's before (the S and X are £80k+ new) but the Model 3 has just been launched in the UK and when I read that the Performance model was £54k, capable of 0-60 in 3.2 seconds and had a real world range of 250 miles, it got my attention. So, to cut a long story short, I have a test drive in one on Friday, and if all goes to plan it will be my daily driver when the Leon goes back.
Thought I'd update this thread. I ended up leasing a Tesla Model 3 Performance which I've now had for 6 months. I have to say, it's a really nice car and perfect as a daily driver. The running costs are ridiculous - I have driven 5.5k miles and it has cost me less than £100 in electricity vs £870 in petrol for the Cupra for the same mileage.
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2008 Supercharged Atom 3, Tesla Model 3 Long Range
simonrhart wrote: ↑Thu May 28, 2020 10:34 am
Very nice!! The front of the car reminds a little bit like some of the modern porsches.
Congrats, I bet it moves..
My wife said the same about it looking quite Porsche-esque. It goes like one too - 60 in 3.2, 100 in 8.5. This video shows it vs the latest 992 911 C2S for instance.
In the real world, as it is 4 wheel drive and so easy to launch, it is probably faster to 60 than my supercharged 3. The real icing on the cake is that with the low running costs and the 0% BiK, running it as a company car saves me personally c.£5k/year vs running my previous personally leased Leon Cupra!
2008 Supercharged Atom 3, Tesla Model 3 Long Range
Another Tesla Model 3 Performance here with a few little tweaks
I've been very impressed with it to be honest. Even took it to Silverstone with some of the Atom chaps earlier this year and it didn't disgrace itself. Here's a video of me wafting around in it before the battery went flat:
haha 911 towing a caravan - you don't often see that.
I bought a BMW 340i earlier in the year because it can tow unlike an M2 that I was going to get. It can tow 1.8 tons! quite amazing really for a performance daily saloon car. It has the same amount of horse power as the Atom but weighs 3 times as much.
Interesting - I’ve got an M135i which isn’t approved for towing and have been looking at F31 340i Touring for exactly that reason. I like that generation of BMW.
GR Yaris CP for when it rains, Atom 4 for when it doesn’t.
I have an F30 340i not the F31. I think the F31 and F30 can tow similar braked weights. It's an amazing daily car it really is. It is currently having a full paint correction. The F30 and F31 340 has the B58 engine it them so unlike the 135i this engine can tow. In fact the new 2021 M3/M4 has the same engine and not sure if it is approved for towing, one would expect so.
It's funny, we talk about traction control a lot, in the 340 the traction control light comes on a lot and it so invasive. So I turn it off completely which you can do and then it frees it up and oh boy, it's so much better, the back slides around but it is so predictable like the Atom 4, I love it! I really don't know people are so scared of this, it's part of owning powerful cars for me.
It’s not down to the B58 engine - the 335i/340i were homologated for towing but the 135/140 weren’t.
The new M3 is a different engine again but they didn’t homologate the last one for towing at all so you couldn’t do it legally. Maybe they will the new one but it’ll have that face....
GR Yaris CP for when it rains, Atom 4 for when it doesn’t.
