Olaf has moved from a VW EOS 2.0 TDI to a Skoda ENYAQ iV 80.
Via our survey, ‘Past, Present & Future’, we want to understand peoples’ respective car ownership stories. With the current climate crisis, there’s never been a greater need for emission-free driving yet at the same time, people are facing rising (and record) energy & general living costs.
This could ultimately change what car & fuel type a lot of people choose next. Also, we are very mindful that not everyone is on the road to electric so we wanted to highlight some of the more diverse & interesting feedback we’ve received.
Tell us about your VW EOS
I liked that it was a convertible and had a great infotainment system at that time (big display for 2011 and the option to play MP3s from an SD-card or USB stick).
I didn’t like that the VW EOS had the famous VW diesel cheat engine built-in and joined the class action suit against VW in Germany to get compensation for the value lost.
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Tell us about your Skoda ENYAQ
I like the suspension, the comfy and noble looking interior design (feels like driving your living room), the assist-systems, the awesome matrix LEDs and the efficiency and range of the car.
I dislike the bad software (especially the dumb navigation system, the unreliable Android Auto connect (no matter which smartphone you connect – sometimes it works after 1 minute wait and sometimes it just doesn’t want to connect) and inability of Skoda to update the OS at least every three months as promised. So far they didn’t get a single update out in over 18 months.
If you had to choose your next car today, what would it realistically be and why?
Tesla Model Y – hopefully the suspension has indeed been improved (as some new owners claim) after 20,000 cars coming out of the new factory in Berlin-Grünheide. You get updates every 4 weeks on average with huge improvements sometimes (faster charging time, adding a blind angle camera view when using the direction indicator, adding the ability to store your profile and settings in the cloud to use it in any other Tesla even if it’s a rental car etc). The acceleration is awesome and the Model Y is still one of the most efficient electric cars, especially for its size.
