Looking for new cars is much better fun than owning new cars, buying new cars, selling… errrr… not quite so new cars. It’s great. Particularly as we swim around aimlessly in the growing pool which is the ‘electric car world’. You learn as you progress. It’s a curve. And this is what we’ve learned today:

Volvo DO in fact make a fully electric car, just the one, but oddly, it is the model Mel likes. Cos its small. And chunky. Just like she… likes them to be. Test driving next weekend.

We learned that the Lexus fully electric, (again, there’s only one from Toyota’s snooty older brother), is quite cute, quite expensive and fast as fuck. I’d never driven an electric car before, other than on a Scalectrix track, and this one was faster. Due to covid regulations (bless ‘em) the salesman can’t accompany you on your drive. How we missed him. So Mel tested out the brakes and I tested out the accelerator. Which worked very very well indeed. I would describe the experience as ‘wonderful’, Mel’s chosen adjective would probably be ‘DANGEROUS!!!’

But you also get to learn about car dealerships, showrooms and staff. And generally, the more pricey the car, the nicer the showroom. So Lexus was vast, airy, clean and smelt of the coffee machine. I stole biscuits. Mel took water. Typical electric car driver. The Volvo showroom was big and posh. The Toyota one was like a workingman’s cafe but scaled up a bit. And the staff weren’t very helpful. The Mercedes place we went to last week was the worst of all for service (lack of) and attitude. As they only looked up from their computers at the fifth throat-clearing and only to give a look which was far less ‘hello, how can I help you?’ and much more ‘what the fuck do you want?’ But as their electric cars were horrible, we enjoyed walking out.

And we are going to have to look at the I3. How can you not? It’s so popular it must have something going for it. Plus its fairly small (‘we’ like that), quite cute (‘we’ love that too). And the ID3 from VW looks interesting though I’ve heard good and bad reports.

It’s a whole new world out there in ‘lectric-land. So much speed. So little noise.

Happy Saturday

A xxxx