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[Wonky_Donkey]

The higher insurance costs will mainly be due to the higher replacement value of the car, and the fact that if the battery pack gets damaged in an accident the car will instantly get written off.

I used to work at AVIVA, and actuaries who work out the rates for insurance are very good at working out repair values and driver liabilities so they won’t be assessing this blind, it will be based on similar vehicle experience.

The insurance group ratings (published earlier in this thread) are fixed to a vehicle, and only tend to change if the vehicle gets refreshed by the manufacturer as part of an overhaul.

I’ve also noticed that the fixed excess on the Mach-E is set to £350 plus any additional voluntary amounts you put down that you are prepared to pay.

I’m counting myself very lucky that my quote is looking quite good compared to some of you. I’m currently paying £189 a year for my Prius PHEV - so it’s quite a jump because of the higher grouping.

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[SteveUk]

The fixed excess is indeed £350 but worth noting gocompare have a deal where you get the first £250 covered. Thank you for your insites.

 

[ElectricPonyUK]

Guys I wish you all well but with a heavy heart I have cancelled my pre-order.

I reviewed the quotes that I had for insurance and the one for £1300 required a telematics box fitted to the car. I’m no boy racer, and pretty much always stick to the speed limit, but the idea of this is abhorrent to me, having a black box reporting on when and where I’ve been driving. I’m not a 17 year old who’s just past my test!

Therefore the next quote where no telematics box was required was £1700.

This is far too excessive for me ongoing each year.

I will still be hovering around the forum as I’d love to hear how you all find the MME when you all finally get them.

 

[portlandg]

Guys I wish you all well but with a heavy heart I have cancelled my pre-order.

I reviewed the quotes that I had for insurance and the one for £1300 required a telematics box fitted to the car. I’m no boy racer, and pretty much always stick to the speed limit, but the idea of this is abhorrent to me, having a black box reporting on when and where I’ve been driving. I’m not a 17 year old who’s just past my test!

Therefore the next quote where no telematics box was required was £1700.

This is far too excessive for me ongoing each year.

I will still be hovering around the forum as I’d love to hear how you all find the MME when you all finally get them.

Sorry to hear that you have cancelled especially since we are so close to the end. Not being aware of your circumstances, apart from the fact you live in London, your quote does seem excessive. I too was worrying about the insurance cost and whether it would cause me to cancel but thankfully the quotes given to me via gocompare and comparethemarket have been very favourable so I'm still in the race, so to speak. Good luck.

 

[Iwantonenow]

Seems so expensive. Been quoted £776 plus £600 excess. My husband seems to think that once the cars are here and we can put in a reg number this will make a difference (i don't think so). This is for 8000 miles, I park in a locked garage all night and in a secure, gated car park for 30 cars only with high security during the day.

 

[Mjsd]

My quote is 760 £ with box and 866 £ without box for 10000 miles and 600 total excess. Still Ok for me but is double of my insurance now. I will wait for LV quote for multi car insurance. Usually I get chipper quote from them.

 

[SteveUk]

Guys I wish you all well but with a heavy heart I have cancelled my pre-order.

I reviewed the quotes that I had for insurance and the one for £1300 required a telematics box fitted to the car. I’m no boy racer, and pretty much always stick to the speed limit, but the idea of this is abhorrent to me, having a black box reporting on when and where I’ve been driving. I’m not a 17 year old who’s just past my test!

Therefore the next quote where no telematics box was required was £1700.

This is far too excessive for me ongoing each year.

I will still be hovering around the forum as I’d love to hear how you all find the MME when you all finally get them.

Sorry to hear that. But at close to £2k I would have done the same. And I agree they can shove their telematics box!

I'm waiting to confirm my order before I decide to proceed but the temptation to throw in the towel has been there as I think the hybrid Kuga, for example, has a much better insurance rating and coming in at a similar price to the SR rwd.

 

[ElectricPonyUK]

Sorry to hear that. But at close to £2k I would have done the same. And I agree they can shove their telematics box!

I'm waiting to confirm my order before I decide to proceed but the temptation to throw in the towel has been there as I think the hybrid Kuga, for example, has a much better insurance rating and coming in at a similar price to the SR rwd.

Because I was going for the AWD ER I would have missed out on the 3 grand rebate, so this was just like someone twisting the knife.

I see the insurance being prohibitive in cities like London, Liverpool etc. Londoners are paying on average double than those in other areas of the country. The joke for me is that I am literally on the north west edge, and have only driven into the centre once in the last 5 years.

The government is telling us that you’ll only be able to buy electric vehicles come 2030, but we are going to need cheaper vehicles and therefore lower insurance premiums to make them available for everyone, to hit those green targets that they want.

I know an expensive car will come with higher premiums, but what I was quoted is just daylight robbery!

I might wait for the iOniq 5 SUV in 2021. Hyundai normally spec their cars with tons of features at extremely competitive prices.

Luckily I’m in no rush!

 

[Mercury8]

Saw a tweet from a Ford dealer up here in Scotland (@CuparDalkeith) over the weekend with a close up render of a MME asking people to guess what car the wheel belonged to.

They also tweeted to look out for a reveal post coming soon. Part of me was getting excited that things might be moving forward and more details and dates (such as test drives) might be getting released then I put my realistic head on and realised that it’ll probably be a rehash of what we’ve been going over on here for the last few months! ?

 

[portlandg]

Saw a tweet from a Ford dealer up here in Scotland (@CuparDalkeith) over the weekend with a close up render of a MME asking people to guess what car the wheel belonged to.

They also tweeted to look out for a reveal post coming soon. Part of me was getting excited that things might be moving forward and more details and dates might be getting released then I put my realistic head on and realised that it’ll probably be a rehash of what we’ve been going over on here for the last few months! ?

We were told back in October that we would be invited to confirm our orders by the end of November. Then, in the presentation that Ford Europe did later that month(27th I think) the head of Ford Europe said that this would now be the first week in December. We are now in the 2nd week and still nothing. Surely it has got to be soon. If I am to believe what I have been told, and seen in writing, my pony was born on the 3rd Dec and is now in the maternity ward waiting to come home. I am, therefore, forever hopeful that confirmation will be this week so that it can be shipped soonest.

 

[Mercury8]

We were told back in October that we would be invited to confirm our orders by the end of November. Then, in the presentation that Ford Europe did later that month(27th I think) the head of Ford Europe said that this would now be the first week in December. We are now in the 2nd week and still nothing. Surely it has got to be soon. If I am to believe what I have been told, and seen in writing, my pony was born on the 3rd Dec and is now in the maternity ward waiting to come home. I am, therefore, forever hopeful that confirmation will be this week so that it can be shipped soonest.

Fingers crossed it’s not too long before you’re the proud father of a bouncing baby Mustang! You should surely be amongst the first in the UK.

I’m sure everyone on here will help to wet the baby’s head on your delivery date

I won’t be jealous.....much!

 

[Iwantonenow]

My husband has been in contact with someone who helped us when we were strugfliwith the system to put in our pre-order back in the summer.
Two things.
1. Apparently those of you given build dates might not actually have the correct dates and you won't know your build date until an unspecified amount of time after you have confirmed your order.
2. Emails being sent this week to confirm orders. At last. Hooray!

 

[ChasingCoral]

We were told back in October that we would be invited to confirm our orders by the end of November. Then, in the presentation that Ford Europe did later that month(27th I think) the head of Ford Europe said that this would now be the first week in December. We are now in the 2nd week and still nothing. Surely it has got to be soon. If I am to believe what I have been told, and seen in writing, my pony was born on the 3rd Dec and is now in the maternity ward waiting to come home. I am, therefore, forever hopeful that confirmation will be this week so that it can be shipped soonest.

The good news is your cars are being made and the order just confirms a connection to an existing car. Would the appropriate analogy be having the baby while engaged?

 

[portlandg]

My husband has been in contact with someone who helped us when we were strugfliwith the system to put in our pre-order back in the summer.
Two things.
1. Apparently those of you given build dates might not actually have the correct dates and you won't know your build date until an unspecified amount of time after you have confirmed your order.
2. Emails being sent this week to confirm orders. At last. Hooray!

Thanks for bursting my bubble ?? Actually, have seen it in writing so still believe ??

 

[SJ_Okay]

So I got some more clarity on my situation...

Apparently the ordering team have been placing the orders in the order of when they were received but the plant in Mexico is a “batch build” plant... apparently it block builds 30 vehicles of the same specification at a time. So apparently this means that if they haven’t got enough for a full 30 x RHD AWD ERs they would potentially have to select later orders of the same spec to complete the batch.

So from this I can deduce that early on, there we’re probably not that many AWD ER pre-orders, or at least not the 30 required for a batch build, which meant that my order kept slipping until we got 30. I am curious to see if anyone else in the UK with and AWD ER has the same build date as me... 8th Feb (?).

They are being super helpful though and someone is still looking specifically at my vehicle to see if they can give me any more info. I really hope something happens. I don’t know if I can wait until May ?

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