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I tried to make friends with that Build Your Dreams badge because I find the story behind it to be truly inspirational, but after a month I succumbed to the naff, took up a fine piece of fishing line and some isopropyl alcohol and removed the badge. Many other Kiwis have done the same.

And while I am on the soapbox, please don't take my post as negating in any way the MG4. We don't have them in New Zealand yet but I can see from the many overseas reports that the 4 is a wickedly good car. I would be stoked to have an MG4 parked in my garage, alongside my Atto 3.

At first look it appears to me to be a cabin fire rather than a battery fire.

The BYD Atto 3 has been available since August last year in New Zealand. I bought one in September and so far have done 14,000 trouble free km. Somebody in this thread made the comment that the A3 is priced like a premium car. Fair comment, and fair to say too that it is a premium car...

Do you know any of the back story pls Timbo?

In New Zealand we call clear meths Isopropyl Alcohol (IPA). it used to be difficult to get because it is used by drug manufacturers but when covid hit the rules suddenly changed because it's an effective sanitising agent so we can now buy it by the litre at hardware outlets. Unlike meths it is...

I bought a ceramic product off Amazon, $nz50, and did my BYD when new. That took about three hours, the result is good. Cleaning is easy which a soft brush, wash 'n wax then a microfibre towel to finish, the car comes up as new with very little effort involved. The technique with the...

In China the BYD Atto 3 is called Yuan Plus. I rather prefer the Yuan name (that's the name of oe of China's ancestral ruling lineages). Atto means, well, what? I don't think that China needs to westernise many of their domestic names.

Yup. this side of The Ditch we haven't had the servicing/warranty dramas. The general feeling in New Zealand seems to be that we are being somewhat tucked on servicing costs but we did not have the dreadful shambles that Australia started off with and we retain a fairly straight forward 7 year...

Greetings from Down Under, the land where the BYD Atto 3 is making a big splash indeed. I put my name down for ZS EV back in March, the Standard Range variant because we aren't importing long range to New Zealand. I cancelled that order a month or so back because I am unhappy with buying...

Down Under in New Zealand I ordered an MG ZS EV back in March, having already bought an MG HS PHEV the previous December. I'm aware that MG is wholly owned by China's government and was comfortable with that but when they started their aggression in the Taiwan area I decided that I was no...

For the answer to that you need look no further than their actions against some of their own leading entrepreneurs such as Jack Ma which roughly speaking halved the value of Alibaba and by extension hurt the Chinese economy generally. The CCP plays the long game, they aren't particularly...

I'm sorry to hear this tale of disappointment.

If I open the boot on our HS, leave it open for 15 minutes then close it, most times it will not fasten.

It looks a bit like a scrivit fastner, used for joining panels. Most commonly made out of some form of plastic but maybe they've tried to tart it up a bit for exposed internal use. Perhaps...

The silver lining around that cloud is that you weren't on the motorway doing 70Mph when the universal crapped itself.

That's an unfortunate choice of name for a car.

To my eye the car looks better with the covers off, and as per KiwiEV (always trust Kiwis, OK?) I think they would look spanking in gloss black.

That looks very spanky indeed. Is there any factory tint at all in any of the window glass?

Will you ship to New Zealand please Miles :)