Two (three?) car garage dilema
Discussion
We currently have two cars.
A Cupra Born (77 kwh version) which we use for bumbling around, throwing the dogs in and going to the shops. Its the car we use 90% of the time and having had an electric car now for coming up 3 years, I can't see us not having an EV.
An Audi SQ5 (diesel) which we use for everything else and mainly long distances which are beyond the range of the EV i.e. I've only ever used a public charger 3 times in 3 years. We love the SQ5, its pretty quick but will easily exceed 40 mpg on a run.
I've owned a good few "sports" cars in my time (I'm 60) including various RSAudi's, AMG Mercs and a couple of 911's, but I'm not sure whether the sports car bug is out of my system.
Am about to upgrade the Born to a VZ but wondering whether I'm making a mistake and have been running through in my head various options - all of which fall down for one reason or another.
Given the brief (one SUV, one EV and one fast-ish) car, is there some combo I'm missing? we would have a few grand to throw into the pot on top of the current cars.
Thre ideal solution is probably 3 cars but that doesn't really work space wise.
A Cupra Born (77 kwh version) which we use for bumbling around, throwing the dogs in and going to the shops. Its the car we use 90% of the time and having had an electric car now for coming up 3 years, I can't see us not having an EV.
An Audi SQ5 (diesel) which we use for everything else and mainly long distances which are beyond the range of the EV i.e. I've only ever used a public charger 3 times in 3 years. We love the SQ5, its pretty quick but will easily exceed 40 mpg on a run.
I've owned a good few "sports" cars in my time (I'm 60) including various RSAudi's, AMG Mercs and a couple of 911's, but I'm not sure whether the sports car bug is out of my system.
Am about to upgrade the Born to a VZ but wondering whether I'm making a mistake and have been running through in my head various options - all of which fall down for one reason or another.
Given the brief (one SUV, one EV and one fast-ish) car, is there some combo I'm missing? we would have a few grand to throw into the pot on top of the current cars.
Thre ideal solution is probably 3 cars but that doesn't really work space wise.
Change the EV to the SUV eg: Model Y, ID4 or Enyaq.
Fun, fast and practical as well as covering big distances an M3 or M5. On long runs they are decent on mpg it’s the shop runners I find killer. If you do 300mile journey the difference between 30mpg and 45mpg is roughly £20 at 140p/l
Personally the EV market doesn’t do the fun side yet so don’t think a Taycan or Model 3 Performance fills that gap. I haven’t tried the Ioniq 5N yet admittedly.
Fun, fast and practical as well as covering big distances an M3 or M5. On long runs they are decent on mpg it’s the shop runners I find killer. If you do 300mile journey the difference between 30mpg and 45mpg is roughly £20 at 140p/l
Personally the EV market doesn’t do the fun side yet so don’t think a Taycan or Model 3 Performance fills that gap. I haven’t tried the Ioniq 5N yet admittedly.
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