Volvo C40

C40 ultimate twin in crystal white. Will drop you a DM shortly.

Photos of the polestar are really nice. Heard they may be coming here with some of the features that require additional chips removed, like the led adaptive headlight system on the top models. the lights are one of the standout features for me, even if I haven’t even driven in the dark yet! I did go out and sit in the car to see the ambient lighting 🤣 Looking forward to try them out. Worth looking at a clip on YouTube of someone driving a polestar or Volvo c40 on a dark road to see what I mean. Incredible tech, just hope to god I never have to replace one of the led headlights. polestar has same battery and drive train as the c40, but in a smaller car. Drove in heavy rain today. The drivetrain hooks up. 4wd new to me, but feels like it comes into its own when the conditions get worse.

What colour are you going for?

No that's fine now, was just because keyfob was in same pocket as phone.

Lovely colour.

No, it can't be reduced. But the lad I was talking to said that when single pedal driving is on the spread increases. By spread he meant the width of distance that triggers what constitutes an emergency brake. So something it detects, that's not even necessarily even directly behind you will trigger it. So if you are backing in to your driveway or reverse parking just beside other cars it will often be triggered.

For example reversing into my driveway triggers it often enough. This photo was yesterday, it slammed on the brakes here for me. There wasn't anything on the road this time so I got out and looked to see if there was anything directly behind me, like normal, there wasn't. 9 times out of 10 this wont trigger it, so it's just not consistent when the emergency brake is triggered and you just can't trust it.

I removed the left gate off the pillar temporarily to try stop the the car autobraking on reversing into my house. I may have to try remove the other gate too for some extra width and see if that helps. But this happens regularly when reverse parking the car anywhere.

"the day it activates when someone walks behind the car or drivers behind will be worth"

As is, the advice from Volvo is that I should disable it each time, so if there actually was a legitimate reason for it to trigger it would be switched off anyway! The car already has (fantastic!) 360 overhead camera and very effective parking sensors everywhere so backing into something is not a major worry.

"the seatbelts tightend and pulled me back into the seat"

Also I had the seatbelts tighten on me a few times. Once in Connemara when I went over a bump at the crest of a hill. The car came over crest it would have gotten light and I think it actually calculated that there was going to be a heavy bump when the car "landed". An excellent feature that it pulls in the seatbelts, locks you into the seat and pre-prepares you. And another time on sudden breaking when a car ahead stopped suddenly on the motorway, it detected the obstruction, alerted the driver, and tighted the belts. Once Volvo can get it to stop slamming on the bloody brakes on me when I park it... it really will be an incredible car.

Good car for the money. I haven't driven the single motor version but I think they'll sell well.

Also the last software update seems to have fixed my problems with emergency braking.