Citroen e-C4 to Cupra Born?

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samoht

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6,295 posts

153 months

Monday 1st July
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Does anyone have experience of these two?

I have an e-C4 currently and am thinking of moving to a Born in a bit.

C4 likes:
  • Very comfortable - quiet (low wind and road noise), comfortable suspension, fat tyres, comfortable seats
  • Leather heated seats
  • Tech - ACC plus lane following reduce stress on motorway trips
C4 Dislikes:
  • FWD wheel scrabble under acceleration
  • Could use a bit more range (have done 100%-10% in 105 miles on motorway in winter)
  • Could use a bit more acceleration
  • Quality issues
The questions are, how much of the Citroen's comfort would I give up? And is the Born proving trouble-free in use? I put up with my RX-7 being maintenance-intensive, but I do rather hope a nearly new EV would be trouble free and just need regular annual servicing.

plfrench

2,940 posts

275 months

Thursday 4th July
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Our Born has done 20k miles since we got it last March completely trouble free.

The ride is noticeably harder than my ID3, some of that will be down to being on 19s ( VW is on 18s) and some will be down to the slightly lower suspension. Still not bad, but quite firm.

We’ve got the 58kWh battery and you’ll get quite a bit more range than you saw on the Citroen. I’d say minimum 160 miles motorway in winter by your 100-10% measure.

eldar

22,793 posts

203 months

Thursday 4th July
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Ive got an e-c4. Range not as good as expected. Comfortable, yes, decent motorway cruiser, but a steady 70mph isnt kind to range.

Its the software that makes me want to thrash it to death. It doesn't work properly, randomly locks up, half the features don't work and dealers are completely clueless and confused.

In general, bad enough to make the car best avoided.