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Could be heat-related, better more expensive motors could be treated to resist heat more, reduces wear and tear e.g. especially as they have that 7 year warranty. Also why buy the sporty version if the normal ones are super quick!

I would have tested the GTi but my local VW dealer never calls back so they lost a customer. I did test the Leon Cupra it might have been faster but it didn't put a smile on my face like the ST. All personal choice! Happy Birthday for yesterday!

Quite agree, the EVs don't have the legs to keep up the whole time, my ST had a top whack oof 140 according to the book :) the 5 is only 115mph. I also don't get the extreme torque steer in the 5 that the ST did. Although the 5 is front wheel drive and the traction control leaves something to...

Very much this! I can do the 5 hour journey up to my Dads (slow roads rather than distance) on the Yorkshire coast without swapping with the wife. We have an hours break somewhere between Newark and Grantham so the boy can stretch his legs (he gets very vocal if we leave him in the car for too...

Definitely. I bought some LED strip lights and the transformer came with a weird molded plug with no fuse. I thought it was weird, but plugged it in anyway and the spark and bang it made was quite impressive. Luckily I know where my consumer unit was.

Having a toddler also means I have to stop every two-three hours or someone in the back gets shouty! I do find my 5 to be an easier drive when I go up to Dads in East Yorks but I wonder how much of that is down to having the lane keep, ACM and no gears. Would a petrol car with an auto box and...

I like that extra bit, definitley stealing it for my own use! I think pressing F12 does the same on WIndows machines. Burning EVs are only news as it isn't an everyday occurrence!

That isn't even news, it's an opinion piece, and opinions are like Arseholes, everybody has one.

I have a subscription to the Telegraph and generally avoid anything by Alison Pearson on account of its poorly researched subjects or just plain rubbish writing. I am really struggling to remember why I don't just cancel.

I'd say it depends on the car, I have worn out my front tyres a bit faster on my PFL MG5 than I did on my old Focus ST that was driven a lot quicker and speaking to our fleet Manager the Merc EQS are really going through their tyres. With the MG5 I'd say it was more down to poor traction...

It happened at the Liverpool car park fire too. I was designing a building with a multistory car park and the local fire brigade liaison told me they were lobbying for cast metal drainpipes in the car parks as the burning fuel passed down the gulley then melted the pipe and caught the cars...

If it could be proved they were aware of it, I wonder what their criminal and legal liabilities would be. Their next insurance quote may be a tad higher than normal!

It would also help to see what caused the fire, Accident, Electrical Fasult, Arson, Range Rover etc....

The number of EV fires will inevitably be higher than that now as EV take up is considerably higher, still much less than the CIE fires though.

Yup,10,000 vehicles of any kind of fuel.

Telegraph Report on Prevention and Fighting EV fires and low risk to start with. This one is pretty much balanced, unusually for the Telegraph. 735 call outs for EV fires 2012-2017 versus 10,000 vehicle fires per year on average.

I was in the queue for the Gridserve chargers at the M11 Welcome Break at Birchanger (near Stansted Airport), there are three small spaces for 3 CCS and 1 Chadmeo (anyone know how to pronounce this?!) the low number coupled with it being the only services on the M11 and a large town with no...

I also read they may run out of Tritium by the time they perfect it! No idea on the scientific accuracy of that report though!

It'll do until they crack Fusion!

It's mostly government inefficiency and lack of leadership, planning permissions taking too long due to a lack of incentives to local inhabitants. The French can do it relatively cheaply and their labour costs shouldn't be too different to ours.