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Originally Posted by Alan
Never knew this car existed, it does look pretty cool but check out the reliability or should I say unreliability of this used iPace, Jaguars in general worry me, an electric one multiplies that worry by quite a lot.
https://www.carfax.com/Used-Jaguar-I-Pace_w9548
Currently being on a road trip and our first stop just happens to be at 170 miles with tomorrow being closer to 220 miles I can’t see having an electric car, getting a hotel room was tough enough, just did a quick search and don’t see a hotel with charging anywhere near where we are staying, there is a Tesla charging station 10 minutes away but being we settled in at 8:30pm I wouldn’t want to now have to go sit in my car another hour charging it but I did spend 5 minutes filling it up with gas.
Rob are you really ready for an electric car ? |
When I click that link I just see a listing for a used ipace? What reliability issues does it mention (not seeing it )?
Agree that EVs are still less than ideal for road trips unless you really enjoy detailed pre-planning (as ZBB does). I just kind of realized that this car checks all (most) of the boxes I’ve been looking for in a daily driver:
-good interior room with hatchback practicality but not too big
-nice interior with great seats and high quality leather or cloth (realized all my bmws have given me back pain whereas I feel great driving the Range Rover. Ipace has similar seats.)
-smooth powertrain with no lag and good power (hard to find with turbo gas powered cars now especially when paired with the ubiquitous but clunky ZF 8 speed)
-good steering weight (an area where I find current bmws and audis lacking)
-comfortable suspension but not floaty/boaty
-attractive interior and exterior (pretty much non existent on bmws now)
-under 70k out the door
Neither of my 2 other contenders are EVs btw (s5 and x3 40).
And like I said it’s not like we take many long road trips anyway
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