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Dave Hedgehog said:
adult 71% and child 51% are very low thou, seat arona gets 95% and 80%
Yup, it lacks warning bongs for rear seat passenger belts; central rear isofix; etc. It's never going to be the safest car in the world, but people tend to see three stars and say "it's awful" without appreciating the fact that whatever they're driving now probably wouldn't manage even that. NCAP has got to the point where the overall star-rating is utterly useless as an actual indicator of safety, IMO. It's basically become a box-ticking exercise with ever more boxes to be ticked.
As I said, personally I'm more than happy with the safety of our old Octavia so I'd be absolutely delighted with the safety of this.
Edited by kambites on Wednesday 31st July 14:30
kambites said:
As I said, personally I'm more than happy with the safety of our old Octavia so I'd be absolutely delighted with the safety of this.
Download the NCAP reports and look the dummy damage description.Edited by kambites on Wednesday 31st July 14:30
2013 Octavia is alot better than the MG for actual damage protection, and even 2009 Octavia doesn't have any red/poor damage as the MG does. Child safety rating on the MG is also rated as poor.
In a crash you and your family are less likely to suffer major injury in a 2009 Octavia than a 2019 MG.
If you want to see what a good 5 star car performs like look at the Model 3 report, the whole dummy is pretty much green.
Its not just the electronic aids.
Nice But Dim said:
My wife coming out of a Defender with zero everything into a ZS is awash with safety features
No amount of electronic aids will stop an idiot from smashing into you.When you realise that idiot hit the exact place where your daughter is normally sitting your be glad you spent a bit extra on a safer car.
On the face of it the damage to my car was so minor even the powered doors still worked...
Than you see the other guys car and realise it was anything but minor...
gangzoom said:
Download the NCAP reports and look the dummy damage description.
I have. The MG did badly in two areas for front seat passengers - the full-width frontal impact test, which didn't exit in the pre-2009 NCAP test and hence wasn't run against the Octavia, and the "abnormal sized/placed dummies" thing which... wasn't in the pre-2009 test and hence wasn't considered for the Octavia. The MG also got marginal results for rear seat dummy loadings which... weren't in the test for the Octavia.
As far as I can see the MG did better in every single test which was run comparably against both car.
Edited by kambites on Wednesday 31st July 15:34
gangzoom said:
No amount of electronic aids will stop an idiot from smashing into you.
When you realise that idiot hit the exact place where your daughter is normally sitting your be glad you spent a bit extra on a safer car.
Err, the MG scored the maximum possible in side-impact tests...When you realise that idiot hit the exact place where your daughter is normally sitting your be glad you spent a bit extra on a safer car.
I think residuals are going to be fascinating. On the one hand it's an EV and generally they've had very strong residuals; on the other if MG can really meet their stated aim of having no supply limitations... well it's a modern MG and they hardly have stellar residuals. If it's possible to pick one of these up for ~£10k in three years' time with four years still on the warranty it'll be a very compelling proposition as a family runaround.
Witchfinder said:
defiantly the right time to move to EV for me the momentum is building quickly, and pure luck work are getting 20 charging points and only i will have an EV lol i could hardly move in the tesla showroom it was so busy
SWoll said:
Definitely time to invest in a decent home charging solution (7kW minimum). If these really do fly out of the UK door public charging is going to become more problematic as doubt it's going to keep up with demand?
It has a 44kwh battery, even a 3kw charger will likely top it up overnight (14 hours 0-100 but your unlikely to have it completely empty)
One of the reasons EVs have finally become of interest to me as a next family car is that their range has finally got to the point where I would never need to charge in a hurry. RobDickinson said:
SWoll said:
Definitely time to invest in a decent home charging solution (7kW minimum). If these really do fly out of the UK door public charging is going to become more problematic as doubt it's going to keep up with demand?
It has a 44kwh battery, even a 3kw charger will likely top it up overnight (14 hours 0-100 but your unlikely to have it completely empty)oop north said:
Even something with a weeny battery like my i3 60ah had (19 kWh I think) would be intolerable without a 7kW charger. In fact the smaller the battery the more you need a Faster charger as you will more often need a quick top up to go somewhere.
Can't say we've had any issues home charging our 120ah i3 over the past 4 months but as above if we go full EV with a Model 3 also then that will become a different challenge.Edited by SWoll on Thursday 1st August 12:49
Zoon said:
Mikehig said:
Swoll; you may be the first on here with two EVs. How will you organise home charging: will you have two chargers and an uprated supply?
If mileage isn't an issue, take turns every night.The plan is to get a 7kwh pod point installed at home to speed up the process, particularly for the M3. The range of the 2 cars (i3 - 150, M3 - 250) will mean they both only need charging fully once or possibly twice a week at home for our use and if we are going on a longer trip I'll just plan to use a public charger. We also have a local Waitrose with a 50kw Polar charger so can pop down and top a car up for free whilst we shop/have a coffee if necessary
Don't see it being an issue TBH, just needs a bit of planning.
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