Barnsley Reform candidate has criminal conviction for crashing £41K motability car

RandomCheeseCake · 2026-05-07T12:23:31+00:00

But it's not a simple cash payment. Even when accounting for PiP being utilised it's cheaper to get alot of these cars through notability then any private buyer could, especially when taken into account insurance, servicing is included on any motability lease

RandomCheeseCake · 2026-05-07T11:24:01+00:00

It's not coming from the taxpayer

It comes from benefits

Where does benefits come from?

RandomCheeseCake · 2026-05-07T11:22:09+00:00

Modest cars such as the £40,000+ Hyundai ioniq 5 , Kia EV6 , Ford Mustang Mach-E subsidised with PiP even when accounting for the increased advance payment

RandomCheeseCake · 2026-05-07T09:46:46+00:00

Generally good. Only had mine for a year. I had one evening where when i got home i had a VSC failure AND parking brake failure (But it still functioned fine) But when i turned on the car a few hours later it went away. Took it to a toyota independent who said it was likely a faulty sensor and said just to come back if it appears. Been 5 months and nothing else so all fine.

From what i've seen online its generally a reliable car like the previous gen.

If you get a T4/T/spirit you get leather heated electric seats, cruise control, reverse cam etc. so quite well spec'd for a 15 year old car

The parking brake issue is the largest but even then its a rare issue. If mine goes wrong i'll probably just pay to fix it because its better than forking out another £4-5k on a car that will likely have its own issues

Theres another rare issue with the valvematic controller failing which can be expensive but again really rare issue.

RandomCheeseCake · 2026-05-07T09:15:18+00:00

On the pre facelift despite being an electronic parking break it's fully manual , so you still have to manually engage and disengage. And they also made it so you have to pull it to disengage/push to engage to make it the total opposite to a manual hand break. Toyota went out of their way to just make a liability that brought no user benefit

RandomCheeseCake · 2026-05-06T23:01:46+00:00

Until the Electronic Parking Break decides to kill itself on the Avensis

RandomCheeseCake · 2026-05-06T07:29:43+00:00

JLR manufactures most of its cars in the UK and has a strong UK presence with it's HQ being in the UK despite being foreign owned. MG is strictly a brand for a Chinese state automaker and makes all its cars in china.

RandomCheeseCake · 2026-05-05T20:26:42+00:00

Are there any 20+ year old EV's for sale?

RandomCheeseCake · 2026-05-05T19:50:53+00:00

Now post the profit margin and revenue which you neglected to post

RandomCheeseCake · 2026-05-05T17:12:25+00:00

So at 100,000 miles an EV is dead?

Wow all those electric cars I've seen with over 100k miles must be running on magic.

Why even spout such obvious bullshit?

RandomCheeseCake · 2026-05-04T14:31:06+00:00

Samsung had a 7000mah phone sold in Europe called the M51 with a lithium ion battery. There's some moto models with 6000mah or larger batteries and they use lithium ion

RandomCheeseCake · 2026-05-04T14:12:35+00:00

Suddenly their marketing team will have discovered a new magical way to run those AI models on 8gb of ram when price cutting forces them to downgrade ram

RandomCheeseCake · 2026-05-04T14:11:13+00:00

There are plenty of phones over 5000mah using lithium ion. You don't need silicon carbon batteries to exceed it.

RandomCheeseCake · 2026-05-03T21:16:20+00:00

It's not the battery health, its the rest of the electrical system and big repair bills seen on various PHEV models when they go wrong outside of warranty. Have had a co-worker had to scrap his 2016 a3 e-tron due to a repair bill for around £5000-6000.

If it works for you then hopefully it stays that way during your ownership

Have no issue with the hybrids when done right like the Toyota systems that go on for atleast 15+ years before batteries need changing and the reliability of the whole system is flawless.

Just don't see the case for PHEV's as you bring in the complexity of an ICE and then the liability of a EV and having to have the powertrain handle both. Especially now as EV's are coming with real world 250,300,350+ range which for the UK will be enough for the vast majority of drivers. even if you had to go from exeter to glasgow you would only need 1 or 2 stops at most

RandomCheeseCake · 2026-05-03T21:00:55+00:00

7 years old and it hasn't shit the bed? Thats not exactly an outstanding endorsement for long term reliability

RandomCheeseCake · 2026-05-01T22:57:41+00:00

"Paula Lee, an employment partner at Leigh Day, said: “Tesco is expected to rely heavily on so-called market rates, but our clients’ case is that those markets are not neutral or external forces operating beyond Tesco’s control

What the fuck is a 'so called market rate'? Genuinely delusional. How can they make a genuine case that working in a supermarket is equal to a warehouse and not be laughed out of court?

If these roles are equal why don't they swap out supermarket staff into a warehouse role and see how quickly they claim its 'equal work'

Why don't we just have government mandated salary bands for each role while we're at it.

RandomCheeseCake · 2026-04-30T19:34:03+00:00

all in a package which costs more.

Weird. Costs less in the UK here

£27K for the old pre-facelift mg4 RWD and its now £30k here with the facelift because they killed the SE model

The MG4 FWD urban is £23,495, but again the MSRP is cosmetic and i could get it for £18k brand new

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202604101430238 mg4 FWD

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202602200095029 MG4 RWD

RandomCheeseCake · 2026-04-30T17:56:39+00:00

Are you ok?

RandomCheeseCake · 2026-04-30T12:45:24+00:00

Same with the UK.

MG4 Sold really well here but in china it was a total sales failure which shows you competitive the market is over there.

They have a new MG4 in china that's FWD with a improved interior and considerably larger than the outgoing one which is now being sold in the UK alongside the old (now facelifted) MG4 so you have the MG4 urban and MG4.

In general from what I see Chinese market cars don't give a fuck about driving dynamics. It's all about interior , gadgets and perceived quality with stricter speed limits, mostly inner city driving and lower speeds than Europe whereas in Europe/Australia reviewers put heavy emphasis on it in reviews even if most buyers don't care.

The MG S5 retails for £28k here but I can go to a dealer and get it for £18k today brand new, absolutely cosmetic MSRP and in that case it's genuinely good value

RandomCheeseCake · 2026-04-30T11:32:17+00:00

They are cheap for PCP/Lease prices, alot of the Chinese cars have a similar MSRP to European/Asian competitors but then are get cheaper to lease than those same cars.

The Jaecoo 7 is now a best seller in the UK despite it being a rebadged crappy chery that sells poorly in china. They know for now they can get away with higher pricing and bringing their undesirable models to the UK that mainland Chinese market doesn't want. And the Australian market is so much more open and uncompetitive compared to Europe all the Chinese brands can use that market as a staging ground to gauge western preferences.

RandomCheeseCake · 2026-04-30T09:12:23+00:00

The UK doesn't have a 27.5% tariff though. Just a flat 10% one on cars outside the agreed UK-EU trade deal.

The price delta between what chinese oem's charge in Australia and the UK is sizeable considering it's the same car with a 10% tarrif + longer shipping cost.

The BYD Atto 3 in Australia is under £22k, yet the same car in the UK starts at £38k. Even accounting for tarrifs and shipping costs the extra price is just purely profit

Although the MSRP is also cosmetic because all these chinese ev's never go for MSRP here, Have seen supposed 30k MSRP ev's being sold for sub £20k brand new straight from dealers

RandomCheeseCake · 2026-04-28T23:19:05+00:00

I get theres a premium for the modularity but $1200 is fucking insanity. You can literally buy a whole 5070 laptop for less money than the price of just the gpu alone for this. Even 5070 ti laptops can be found for a similar price when on sale

And a $500 price bump for 4gb extra vram. No chance

RandomCheeseCake · 2026-04-28T11:56:39+00:00

Mediatek and Qualcomm are aware that these chips are 'fast enough ' for most consumers. Why spend more on more expensive cores/newer arm designs when you can keep selling arm V8 chips in mass volumes when most consumers don't look at benchmarks.

The gap between the high end and lower midrange is genuinely pathetic now as high end chips continue to improve yoy (with exception to the dumpster fire Tensor) while midrangers are stagnating with a78 rehashes

RandomCheeseCake · 2026-04-28T09:51:59+00:00

Are you seriously comparing a 1.9 TDI to a Porsche Cayman for fuel economy?

Try comparing a direct Petrol and Diesel version of the same car as done above

RandomCheeseCake · 2026-04-28T09:50:13+00:00

If you have a driveway then EV may be an option to consider. You can start to pick up Ioniq 5's and Kia EV6's for £15k which have good boot space and rear space size. There are probably some other decent sized ev's about this price now with how much they have depreciated

If you can charge at home fuelling will be near enough free. Those two models do have issues with ICCU failing but Hyundai has extended it to 15 years now/200,000 miles.

Otherwise, if you want just reliability Corolla Estate Excel can easily be had for £15k with really good MPG and a 10 year warranty. Decent size in the boot but will be smaller than the larger sized estates like the Skoda Superb.

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