Well, If the grant isn’t honoured it becomes unaffordable to me - so I will have no alternative but to bow out.

Well lepoolem, sorry to hear this, but it's still much, much quicker than my Life Pro Performance ! Ordered 9th October, provisional build not expected until Autumn this year, expecting delivery to be after Christmas!

I heard today of another week 49 car being delivered. A friend of mine, not on the forum ordered a Pro Life, about 10 days before me, and like me it was through Drive The Deal. His order number is only a few digits different to mine, but somehow his managed to get onto the week 49 schedule, but mine...

Yes, I watched a Fully Charged video report about id3 production in Dresden. It's VW's showpiece 'transparent factory' - a very stylish visitor centre manufacturing plant, super high-tech and quite hands-on too, where some people are invited to see their car being produced, and help-out too. A beaut...

I had the letter from VW in the post this morning - it was just the same letter the dealer e-mailed to in pdf format a couple of weeks ago, but a printed and posted copy this time. I'm deeply flattered, and it's nice to know VW obviously feel that I'm worth the 68p postage.

Thanks turntoport - it’s really interesting to hear your real-life experiences and impressions of the Honda e. As I mentioned, I have an id3 on order and it should have been delivered this month, March 2022. The last update I received suggested that it was not likely to commence the build process un...

For me it was always about design - as a designer, I suppose that's the first thing that draws me into any product. There are a lot of EVs on the market, but many of the designs just 'try too hard' and are in my eyes clumsy and ugly or over fussy. Or others, like Tesla - just plain odd - a 1960s fut...

MikeS is right - and in my case it would be a ‘deal breaker’. I suppose when the regulations were devised, nobody had given the remotest thought to the possibility that the situation would arise where cars that are intended to be common mainstream EVs would involve the sort of waiting times one woul...

Well done Genawin, that looks absolutely stunning!

I saw one that colour today, only the second one I’ve seen far, and it made me wonder whether I’d made the right decision with my choice of white.

I hope you have, many, many happy miles with it - enjoy!

There has been a notable and understandable increase in the number of people cancelling their id3 orders over the last couple weeks. If one considers that this forum is but a small microcosm of the overall volume of id3 sales - then VW must be suffering from the loss of many thousands of sales acros...

It is quite worrying, for me at least, if there are to be any increases in the final delivered cost of the car. I did take this up with my dealer a couple of weeks ago, particularly further price increases and the status of the EV grant payment, and their reply was: 'The plug-in grant has been proce...

I can concur that the situation with the wiring harnesses is potentially quite a big problem. The harnesses are absolutely specific to particular models, and they are delivered completely configured with all of the spurs/clips/plugs and outlets so they are totally 'plug and play', and most certainly...

Yes, I saw this in The Telegraph today, Shenzhen is the major manufacturing centre for yes, you've guessed it, semiconductors for the automotive industry!

Monkeyhanger you’ve probably hit the nail on the head, as that’s literally exactly what they do when painting the contrast-colour roofs at MINI.

It's been in the business pages of several of the main broadsheets over the last few days. The report I saw, I think it was in The Telegraph a couple of days ago, mentioned that over $600 Euros has been invested in these plants in Ukraine, employing over 60,000 people. The wiring harnesses are produ...

Oh no, they are definitely much, much, much better than my old classic car. I thought the brakes on the id3 were very similar in efficiency to my present-day MINI Cooper - perfectly adequate!

The braking characteristics of all cars are different, and one just has to adapt one's driving technique to match the performance of the particular vehicle being driven. I'm also lucky enough to own a 54 year old classic car. The car is fastidiously maintained, and is totally legal and is even subje...

It's not just VW, the world's major car companies have invested hundreds of millions of pounds on a number of state-of-the-art car wiring loom factories in Ukraine, employing over 60,000 people - making it THE major centre for wiring loom production for Europe. Other facilities of course exist, but ...

Well done Up the jumper, it looks brilliant - enjoy!

I did see yesterday that the Megane e-tech has achieved some pretty impressive Euro NCAP results and has been awarded 5 stars.