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BYD Seal
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Test drove it this morning.
Black with the black interior. Very nice comfy seats. Thought the UI was miles better than VW . Pano roof makes it bright and airy. Lovely smooth pick up on acceleration. Not a car nut so seemed fine to me.
Drove it with all the auto assists on. Nothing annoying to me as I'm used to all the new vehicles having these devices.
Swipe down screen and two presses to turn them all off.
As for the pedestrian noise it's there for a reason.
Service is every 20k/kms. ( which is miles better than my niros 15k/kms but awful compared to my id3 unlimited 2 year)
2 year service pack at start.
Seemed very well put together. If it had a Merc badge it'd be 30 grand more expensive.
Here's a photo of the indigo grey one they had.
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Drove the Seal in Cork earlier today - Others have covered most of the main areas so not much point in going over all of those again but a few things stood out for me.
App requires a dealer QR code and reports of that being problematic which could be an issue but hopefully will be sorted by the time cars arrive.
Pedestrian noise is far in excess of the current noise in my BMW i4 - annoying but it is what it is and will probably get used to it but your neighbours will know when you are coming and going.
V2L is a gift - great feature and happy that it's included, means if my wife is ever stuck somewhere with her EV out of charge you could give a granny charge to allow her make it to a charger.
Boot doesn't appear huge but not a priority for me, it's adequate. I'm used to a larger opening area in the Gran Coupe.
Seats were very comfortable and I would say they are as good if not better than my current i4 m50 - they are streets ahead of the i4 e40 that I had.
Rear seat space, probably double the leg room of the i4 - kids approved. I'd feel uncomfortable in the back of the i4 but fine in the Seal.
Software - more feature rich although the UX/UI not as mature as the BMW, this is a personal preference though. I really couldn't find fault with the OS though, no lag, menus were logical and well structured for the most part.
Indicators on the "wrong" side is annoying but will be fine after a few days of driving I assume - on the motorway I indicated instead of wipers, need to adjust the muscle memory.
Drive was comfortable, sport mode and flooring it is never going to be anything like the neck breaking response of the i4 m50 but no use for that in the real world day to day anyway, it had plenty poke for what is needed for 99% of my driving.
The test drive was the AWD model though and I've ordered the RWD as I am prioritizing range over performance - will be keen to test drive the RWD and see how much performance is sacrificed for the range, that's a trade off.
I've added some pics below.
I'd originally ordered the black paint and blue interior but having seen the black I switched to white paint.
That black will look amazing when clean on a summer's day but a magnet for scratches and it would kill me looking at it, white paint tends to be a lot more forgiving. Blue interior (it's more grey than blue) is the winner for me, black was nice but a bit dull.
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