Cupra Born

I have already bought mine but if Tesla disrupt the market and push prices down to where a functioning, competitive market should be, I am all for it. At the end of the day its cost to change thats important for me and everyone else next time. I wonder will the others follow suit though.

I went from an ID.3 to a Model 3. The Tesla doesn't feel much bigger, though the dimensions would show otherwise. It is a good bit wider alright, I do miss the agility of the ID.3 in the likes of multi storey car parks. Parking was also easier in the ID.

When comparing look at other things apart from cost. The cold weather efficiency is better as is the tech in the Tesla. Just did a 45km rural run at 3C, trip said 13.1kWh/100km. Ok the ID.3 is supposed to have improved after update 3.0, the battery heating in these temperatures was not great for range.

Like the two cars, it's personal preferences really..

I just rang the call center, and they say it's "highly likely they'll be able to deliver a Model 3 this quarter"

So anyone else collecting a Born in the next week or so? I'll be picking mine up next week. I was at the dealer yesterday and there was about 5 other Borns there waiting for collection.

I'm not entirely happy with the trade-in offer but I'm probably being unrealistic on what I expected. €8.5k for a 2016 Captur.

Hold down the power button for 10 seconds to reboot.

So still waiting to collect my car. I've come to realise that car salesmen might be the worst bunch of clowns I've ever dealt with. I'm here waiting to splash out a large sum on a car and you think I can get them on the phone to give me a day/time to collect? Can I f***. You'd think they'd want my money.

I guess I'll try again tomorrow.

Although not exactly the same, I get a similar issue probably once a week. Frozen screen, climate controls unresponsive (couldn't turn off the heating steering wheel or seats a couple of times) etc. Sometimes it's because I hadn't signed in as a user and so there are limited functions available. Other times who knows. The app is continually giving issues, although I generally get it to work after a few restarts.

Oh, and have I mentioned the colour?

Otherwise, I love it. Went on a big 450km round trip recently. Charged twice en route, piece of cake. ABRP is great.

I've got a 58kwh Aurora Blue model on the docks in Germany that I'm not going to take delivery of. Does anyone on Boards want to skip the queue and take it?

They already have your money. 🤣

Pretty sure the navigation on the driver display is V3.1? I think trip information was introduced for V3.0 along with battery percentage, time and temperature.

I wonder if AA navigation arrows are shown on the HUD, the arrows are the only reason to spec it but I'd never use built in sat nav.

ID. 3 had the AA on binnacle screen from 2.1 (after the 1st dealer update, as IDs didn't have AA at the delivery), I have it for 2 years. I'm pretty sure Born had it from day 1 as it came with more recent software version.

Sometimes on the small display I see trip information, like kw per 100km, and distance. But sometimes it just shows an error like "Route Guidance unavailable" or something.

The #1 thing driving me mad with the Born is that Apple Music doesn't work properly on Apple Carplay. The songs constantly buffer. Every time a new song comes on there is 30-60 seconds of buffering ornit simply won't play.

Zero issues using Apple Music on any other device.

Getting great range in the milder temperatures and the fact my commute isn't stop start with schools being off. I only bought it towards end of September so haven't had a prolonged period of mild weather.

14kwh/100kms since charging last and have done 200kms from 80% battery down to 31% now giving approx 400kms theoretical range from a full battery cycle.

Have 8000kms on it in now in almost months long term average 18kwh/100kms. Should start to come down. I've no range anxiety or anything though, all happy motoring.