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[Chris-wlnl]

Can't wait for it to be available in the US!

[tomquimby]

An actual interesting car. FWD smallish size, reasonable battery size.

[CoxJul]

We're going to have an interesting issue in the UK where at the GT-Line trim level starting at £39, 495 you can have your car in Sunset Orange as standard - not for me thanks - any of the other four colours cost £625 taking the list price to £40, 120. That £120 is going to cost you a lot more with the car tax system coming in April 2025 where, as well as EVs now having to pay road tax (£10 year one, £190 after that), any car over £40, 000 list gets hit by the "Expensive Car Supplement" which will be another £410 a year for 5 years (£2, 050). Noticed similar with Smart #3 Premium and I'm sure there are other models just under the £40k limit that will be hit by extras.

[simondehaas]

In the UK, £44k seems too high for the GT Line S, that's EV6 money. I think £33k for the 58kwh Air will be much h more popular, that's all you should need in a car this size.

[carlospeiteado]

Chris men, you forgot to mention about charge...ac charge up to 22 in all the options or only in the gt line??

[FFVoyager]

I preferred the simple - you 'get everything' spec of the early Hyundai Ioniq.

With this if you want a heat pump you have to get a big battery high-spec car with big wheels? No smaller battery - that would benefit from having it - option. That's very poor.

Glad I don't care for SUVs. This will be another car to ignore.

[The_Observer]

Seems like leasing starts from 349 € in Germany.

[nvca]

I think it is not a pretty var from the outside but since I am usually driving it from the inside and I love its interieur, I really like it.
What I find terribly stupid that when you order the GT line package, you loose many miles in range while having a car that is louder because of these 19 inch wheels. If that car could go 150 mph or more that would make some sense here in Germany, but it is cut off around 100 mph so what is the point of having a louder less comfortable car while having less range? You will never drive fast with it anyway and if you are like me and don't want to be bothered much with driving, you will use the HDA anyway and that keeps you at a max of 130kmh (around 80mph) and here you want silence, comfort and not be bothered. I like that fact that it has a capacitive steering wheel sensor, so you just need to have your hand on it, without having to to push it left or right for the annoying "hands on steering wheel" message to disappear.
I would go for the earth with heat pump and that's it.
By the way I thought car2x would an automatic bidirectional vehicle to load, but it turns out to be an emergency communication system that will send out a crash signal to others or receive a crash signal from other cars to you are being slowed down instantly ... it also is supposed to communicate with traffic lights and I like that concept. Though I have been reading that the manufacturers are fighting with incompatibilities ... I don't know why some European or Worldwide consortium with actual specialists with no lobby connections doesn't step in and clearly defines binding standards - end of discussion!

[tiago]

Great/good/reasonable price? 😮 it was supposed to be low to mid and high 30k eur!! 😅

[Pupuzor]

Omg that is nowhere near cheap car cuz you need many extras.

[P_R_]

The car is decent, but 46k is not a decent price for this car.

[The_Observer]

10k to expensive. EX30 will be hard to beat in Sweden.
Terracotta looks like Dacia Duster.

[edwardboyd]

Way too expensive. They need to get this under 30K or flop

[danielstefanovic]

50 grand to expensive for big battery and 30 minutes 10-80 is slow when You have 800 volt ev’s that charge that in 15 minutes

[PseudoGfx]

It could be a great car but definitely too expensive.

[contra_plano]

I have to wait 3 years four buy it cheaper...

[catmanscarchannel]

To expensive and looks rather plastic. Few fun colors.

[Anomander]

So stupid, in the Netherlands, the basic car is 1000 euro more expensive...
in the Netherlands, there are 5 versions. You show only 3. In the Netherlands, there are the Air (same as here), the Plus (Earth), Plus Advanced (not shown here), the GT-Line and the GTLinePlus (Not shown here) The most expensive version in the Netherlands is 49.195 euro with all you can get. So, strangely cheaper than in Germany.

[Chris-wlnl]

Can't wait for it to be available in the US!

[tomquimby]

An actual interesting car. FWD smallish size, reasonable battery size.