Great to see you looking healthy and well Bob...great review well done.

Wishing you all the very best Bob, thanks for highlighting the chinese disruptors, they are popular (especially the atto 3) here in Oz Stay Well and keep doing what you love :)

Bob cracking review squire as always. Good to see you back and doing what you do best.

Great to see you doing a Re-view, and this during the only two Sunshine days we had thus far in Ireland. All the best further with your recovery. A true inspiration.

Bob your voice is getting better too. I am foreigner I do not always understand people and I can understand you 100%. It's great to see you healthy and well.

Great to have another one of your amazing reviews. Your an inspiration sir 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🙏😊

Great to see you doing car reviews again. Welcome back.

Wishing you well bob, nice to see you

I've seen a few around Belfast, it's a lovely looking car.

great progress Bob, you sound so much better , met you years ago at dublin airport , think you were going to an event in Spain, i was off to Vegas, great chat and agreed with your view on the market

PS: At least it has an indicator stalk - if even on the starboard side :)

Top man Bob! Keep her lit

Top review Bob. Thanks.👍

Thanks for another great review Bob

Your getting better Bob, hope you continue to make good progress. Keep making these reviews, your still one of the very best on YT.

Great review, thanks Bob

Welcome back Bob, a gent

Great review Bob.

Good man Bob , great review ,cool car . That fold up bike is the job , BYD , very tidy machine. Wishing you the best Bob.

Looking at your clothes I can tell when you did the review 😀 Great and honest review, as always!

I turned off the wireless charging pads and put my sunglasses and stuff on them. Got mine in February and love it. The bings and bongs can be turned off. Because the screen is android based, you can swipe down for shortcuts. These can then be customised to your preference. Voice control is good but some functions, such as rear window demist are not supported yet. When charging at a public charger I turn the car on to stop the alarm from going off. Great video and great your still making them.

Looking forward to the BYD Han review Bob

Great to see you back - the safety features overkill was quite the topic in Australia for this car - most annoyingly every time you adjust all the alerts off they default back in every time you start the car 🤦

Still great mate, always the best car reviewer!

Super report. Just need to get confidence that there is dealer/service backup before looking more deeply at BYD.

Spot on Bob 👍

I hope you're well, Bob. Bought a GT86 because of your review back in the day.

@BobFlavinVideo

3 ай бұрын

Still a great car!

Sat in one at the Nevo show in the RDS and its seats were as nice as the merc eqs beside it ! Amazing blade battery too

A fabulous looking car , seen one in the flesh a month ago, very impressed, around €55, grand, but as ya showed with Nobbie its the infrastructure that is the issue not the cars , great review as always,

@kaziez

3 ай бұрын

Exactly. There just isn't enough infrastructure to seriously consider an EV imo.

Nice car, I can see it selling as it's like a Tesla but has a better interior and normal controls. It might all come down to 1 or 2 Chinese companies making it in Europe as all the rest go bust eventually. I'd bet BYD would be one to survive. I'd still buy European first to support closer to home industry though.

China and Europe are very different. China has no worries about workers rights or Safety standards as they are all decided by the dictatorship, China has no competitiveness laws - The State can help companies whenever needed etc. Having said that it's the greed of the Legacy shareholders that makes it hard to compete on price.

@ensteffo

2 ай бұрын

Non of these claims are true.

Great as always bob. But I’m sticking to my petrol for now

Some these new "safety" features are more dangerous then anything, your first response to it beeping or flashing is take eyes off the road to look at dash trying see which bong is going off now

Nice review. Despite the cheesy name, I think this is a brand that’s going to make serious inroads into the market.

@BobFlavinVideo

3 ай бұрын

Yeah I agree

The NFC on the armrest is where you start the car using the NFC card....if you don't have the key.

What an epic car review Bob your awesome, really enjoyed this video and I have to say it looks miles ahead of tesla its the one I will have in the future love the colour and spec utterly brilliant 👏 safe safe Bob keep up the great work 👍

I don't know if I could live without physical dials and buttons, nice looking car though!

Wunderschönes Auto ! 👌

Bob, Great to see you reviewing cars once again -I strongly feel I can trust your reviews. I reckon EVs are in the Baby stage of development -maybe in time they will be the future -the second hand/Trade in value will be a major problem -tyres wear quicker because of the weight of the electric car --the lithium ion battery fire hazard is an other major issue -also they are very expensive and Range anxiety is another major problem.-surely you agree!!!!

My understanding is that a factor into putting tariffs on Chinese EV imports is to counter Chinese subsidies that have helped their EV market - which otherwise creates an unfair advantage compared to European and American makers. Only a factor though because the likes of BYD are making great cars and control the entire pipeline

@ensteffo

2 ай бұрын

The US and European tariffs does not count in the massive amount of subsidies US and European car makers have received since the dawn of automotive production so rather than trying to create a level playing field it is an attempt to protect industrial advantage which is eroding or for the most part having entirely disappeared.

Couldn't agree more Bob, the Chinese manufacturers haven't just caught up but surpassed a lot of the locally made models and are continuing to accelerate away.

I had a test drive and was impressed, indicator stalk on d right annoyed me tho. I think they will drop like a stone in resale. Id say 20k in 3 years easy..

I’m a company car driver and will be looking to change next year so will be trying out cars end of this year. I’d seriously consider one of these as a Tesla Model 3 is only my list of possibles but those safety feature bings would drive me nuts! (On my current EV most can be permanently turned off). Will test drive one and see - looks great and packed with kit for the price.

Super review, bought the Seal AWD in February, no regrets whatsoever

@garrethearns9062

3 ай бұрын

Great to see your reviews again, bought most of my cars based on your reviews starting with the Peugeot 508 2.0tdi back in 2014, Kia ev6 etc, keep up the good work👏

@garrethearns9062

3 ай бұрын

Best wishes on your recovery, great to see your videos again

Good review, the Seal needs a SILENT button, otherwise it looks a great car. I believe they are bringing out a pick-up later this year

The wireless charging can be switched off Bob 👍

Great review Bod as always the Chinese will be the most dominant electric car force before long in the UK before long whether we like it or not.

Next ev right there, byd semi solid battery, 1000km + between charges, that's the official game changer

Imagine living once on planet earth and then driving around in a BYD🤣

I drive an EV. Your review's are fairly spot on and honest. My next EV will most likely be a BYD.

@BobFlavinVideo

3 ай бұрын

BYD are doing all the right things, even the battery tech is killing everyone

@andreasl4507

3 ай бұрын

Byd is for the gay so it Will fit you great ❤

Great video as always Bob, if you were in the market for a new car would you consider one of these?

@BobFlavinVideo

3 ай бұрын

I’d have the Dolphin as it would suit the family more but they would have to fix that annoying beeping!

@potter2702

3 ай бұрын

@@BobFlavinVideo I can totally understand that!

It’s so blinding, especially in the sunshine, so bright, so white and distracting to the eyes - I’m talking about the whiteness of Bobs legs in shorts not the white car - sure it’s seen the sun much more and has more of a tan.

Lots of different looking cars from BYD. That's a big advantage over Tesla. Plus conventional and safer driver controls.

As with the vast majority of Chinese EV’s……a collection of legacy manufacturers design cues wedged into a soon to be hunk of e-waste. Naff!

Totally agree with your wireless charging comment. Absolutely useless

@BobFlavinVideo

2 ай бұрын

I hate it because there's nowhere to put my phone that isn't charging it!

Sadly, No! Most insurers will not offer quotes and if they do they are insanely expensive.

@clewis5220

3 ай бұрын

Agree insurance costs put me off ( unless you can get it on a salary sacrifice where it’s included) I’m surprised Chinese EV makers haven’t set up a Uk insurance company to offer better premiums and remove one of the barriers to ‘buying’ an EV

@Lensman3333

3 ай бұрын

@@clewis5220 We have rejected a Hyundai IONIQ 5 after two years, mechanical/Electric issues. NEW Skoda Enyaq arriving which is 100% Less expensive to insure than the Hyundai

One should be considered a lunatic if one would bye a BYD

@scribilini8967

3 ай бұрын

Bye ✋

@g_liout3923

3 ай бұрын

I just bought one....Bye bye!!!!!

Forgive as Bob isn’t the clearest just now but did he just say Apple car play can’t use location? So Waze wouldn’t work.

love your blogs but the sound is terrible

this is the first of the chinese evs I like the look of. the others are trying too hard to be cyberpunk cars , this just looks nice

So the car speedo says 54mph but actual is 49mph Does this affect the cars calculated distance travelled on a charge.

@mlann2333

3 ай бұрын

I think all cars speedos do that 10% on top, been like that for years

@paulwaites6551

3 ай бұрын

@@mlann2333 Exactly, So when the range is calculated on EV's take another 10% off.

@mlann2333

3 ай бұрын

@@paulwaites6551 oh you can take 30% off, forget 10

Complex Chinese electronics and Miles.of wiring as all this low quality hardware age's what can go wrong everything it will be worth nothing when a few years old

What happened the subtitles?

@BobFlavinVideo

3 ай бұрын

They weren’t liked so I didn’t do it on this video. KZread subtitles are available

The Chinese play a long game, we in the west only have a "5 minute" attention span. A lot of folks have forgotten that China is a communist country. The west requires visionary leaders to deal with an expansionist China and unfortunately, we in America have "lost the plot". The ramifications of self imposed EV mandates coupled with unachievable deadlines is handing over large sections of crucial industries to the CCP I fear that Chinese vehicles dumped in Europe and Mexico will have a lasting effect on millions of peoples that are not yet fully understood. Bill Clinton should never have allowed a communist China, with all its human rights violations to join the WTO.

@rajjy1976

3 ай бұрын

Ok….. what did you think of the car though?

@michaelkilbride2927

3 ай бұрын

You will get repair bills the size of telephone numbers the risk of explosion in a crash the fact they are not green the government is pushing evs when has government done anything good for you wake up its a scam

Has this bloke had a stroke ?

@BobFlavinVideo

3 ай бұрын

No, cancer in my mouth and still recovering

@uwemuller2944

3 ай бұрын

@@BobFlavinVideo Wish you all the best, first of all a quick and complete recovery.