BYD Atto3

In Limerick I have seen a Tesla Model 3, an MG ZS, 3 X MG 5s, an ID4, an Atto, a leaf, a Zoe and a Niro being used as taxis in the last few months

I'd argue that the leaf, Niro and Atto are a bit small as taxis and the Zoe is very small as a taxi

Cheap and cheap to run, think taxis get nearly 20k in grants so that's a brand new 5 for ~16k

If your scraping the car then how can you also sell it for 2k? Surely that's a loop hole. Well done for finding it and do not blame you for taking advantage of it.

So you get 22k then for the old car then is that right?

Does that not seem a waste of a car? Surely your three year 9ld EV that you're replacing isn't at a stage where it needs to be taken off the road?

Unless I'm picking you up wrong?

Great move for taxi's which do lots of city driving so for once a government move that works.

As I've found now though, when you go to trade in a 1 year old car it's going up against all the cheap one year old taxis.

One dealer told me that my MG was only getting X amount online. I'd a look at the car and it had 50,000km on the clock ! One year old. Unless they had it serviced three times (at 15, 30 and 45,000 km) then the 7 year warranty is gone too.

Ended up just trading back in with MG. Selling to Trade was only giving me 21k as they are worried about the used EV prices and have over corrected. MG gave me 35k. I paid 36.5k for it 14 months ago. So I stuck with them. New Red MGZS being picked up next week.

Ah I re-read your comment above about changing next year but never linked the 2021 part.

That's some amount of private driving so 50,000 in a year. He must live in it🤣

How else do you pay for a car other than monthly payments... most people don't have 40k cash in the bank to buy a car

There's an argument to be made that if you don't have 40k to spare maybe don't buy a car of that value. It is crazy to see the amount of people on PCPs that get swayed into cars that are way way out of their affordability range.

Why would you change after just one year sure the car is not even old yet. There needs to be a minimum term of ownership set and I think 3 years should be the limit. You can have as many new cars as you like as long as there is 3 years between them and it can be for yourself or your partner or partners.

So no one can have 3 or 4 brand new cars of the same year in their yard unless it belongs to someone who lives at a different address. So if your son's or daughter's are living with you and driving then they would just have to wait there turn or move out.

I have the money now to move up one year. I probably won't have the money to move up 2.5 years when the facelift comes out at the end of 2024.

I'd a choice between taking a €1500 depreciation this year and getting a new low mileage, extra year warranty, new colour, and grabbed one of the few left with the sunroof.

I hadn't planned on it. Had hoped to move to a different car but the market is all over the place at the moment. MG offered 35k, everyone else 21k. So no hope of going elsewhere. Hopefully it's a bit more steady next time.

Sure by that logic no one would drive a Škoda Octavia/Superb or an Avensis...

Few extra euro on the side never hurt 😉

Does anyone know how long it took them to get connected to the BYD app?

I am over a week now and still can't connect