Goodbye 1st Edition, Hello Mediocrity

[BadgerGreg]

look into the Bmw I4. I hear that they drive well and are pretty nice. Even the Base ones.

As a former (and future) Mach E owner and current i4 M50 owner, I can say the i4 is fantastic, except it is smaller than the Mach E and the driver sits lower, which may be a deal breaker for some of you who want to carry more than 1-2 passengers at a time. The only way to get the AWD is the M50 version, and that puts you just over the top end of the Mach E GT Performance price range (not to mention no federal tax credit for the BMW EVs). You can get the RWD i4 eDrive 40, which is still a great car, but not so good in winter (snowy) weather.

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[tuminatr]

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[Teslaeata]

So surprise that there were no airbag deployment with that front end damage.

Not necessarily such a surprise.

Main crush is largely to “soft” upper parts, if collision didn’t cause sufficient a speed change airbags wouldn’t deploy.

The collision and pre-collision data would be interesting to see.

 

[Ghost Ryder]

Not necessarily such a surprise.

Main crush is largely to “soft” upper parts, if collision didn’t cause sufficient a speed change airbags wouldn’t deploy.

The collision and pre-collision data would be interesting to see.

Well, in that case, then it's shocking that it would cost 45K to fix that.

 

[generaltso]

Well, in that case, then it's shocking that it would cost 45K to fix that.

The car was valued at $45k. That doesn’t mean that would be the cost to repair.

 

[Ghost Ryder]

The car was valued at $45k. That doesn’t mean that would be the cost to repair.

yeah, but if they totaled it. That must think it's closed that to repair.

 

[ajmartineau]

Totaled is because the cost of repairs/rentals/ford's recalibrations are more than ACV ($45k) - salvage value.

 

[jbooth]

Go quirky while you wait for the next gen. BMW i3 REX! It'd be garbage at road trips, but then again a bolt is pretty garbage at those too due to the charging speed or lack thereof.

 

[Teslaeata]

Well, in that case, then it's shocking that it would cost 45K to fix that.

You may think that but the truth is cost to repair is not directly related to force of impact for a whole load of reasons not least of which in my experience is who costed the repair and their “angle”.

 

[Teslaeata]

Go quirky while you wait for the next gen. BMW i3 REX! It'd be garbage at road trips, but then again a bolt is pretty garbage at those too due to the charging speed or lack thereof.

Nooooo, they’re shite and on what I hear from an owner you wouldn’t be doing any road trips?

 

[Mach e Mark]

Nooooo, they’re shite and on what I hear from an owner you wouldn’t be doing any road trips?

Well, Crap!

I said goodbye to My 1st Edition the other day. A high school kid did an illegal U-turn in front of me. LeeLou is dead! I just found out she's "totaled." Valued at $45k.

I drove home 2 miles after the incident and (other than the red hood in the way of seeing the road) I couldn't tell I had been in an accident. It drove perfectly.

My Replacement Choices Are Not Good: I don't see that Ford has made significant progress toward fixing the GT issues list in plenty on this site, and the Ralley Edition is too far away to wait. I need a car now. Five drivers and two cars, is not going to work.

I will probably just get a used Bolt while I figure it out.... unless I get a better idea/option.

Here's my suggestion (from left field). Get the F150 Powerboost (Hybrid). Sure it's not full electric but it hauls that family of 5, runs your house during power outages with 7.2 Kw built-in inverter, plenty of storage in the back for whatever you need and the mileage isn't bad. Good luck.

 

[Teslaeata]

What a community! Great ideas, interesting opinions and alternatives we all benefit from around the world.

 

[squirrels2nuts]

I’ve been really happy with my MME but she has fallen behind. Also the black trim around the wheels is not something I want to have to look at every time I get in and out of the car.

what models have the black trim on the wheels?

 

[generaltso]

what models have the black trim on the wheels?

All except the GTs and First Editions.

 

[Teslaeata]

I've read the current rule of thumb by insurers is an EV that is in even a minor accident is suspect to have HV battery damage, which has farther reaching implications regarding safety and future additional repair, or total loss. Like most things electronic in this modern age, EV are disposable.

That’s the impression I also get if not an official approach, and one of my roles is as an insurance assessor so I see it first hand.

That approach, largely, is a consequence of a lack of knowledge, qualification, experience and expertise.

What does everybody think they do with these cars when they become written off, evaporate them? Fire them into the sun?

They still do exist and become sold as repairable salvage because that’s how insurers reduce their financial loss

Then somebody prepared to do what insurers can’t be arsed or dissuade themselves from doing, and their Policyholders often pressurise and prevent them from doing is to repair the cars, check & test HV systems inc batteries and repair the often relatively minor body damage returning the cars to the road so achieving nothing which the mistaken justification used to write them of in the first place is said achieve.

So many are blinded by a notional mystique of EVs and aren’t qualified to deal with them.

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