The amount of comments here that fault simon for his merge with the Malcolm lorry honestly stagger me. The little i10 in front is what put him into a bit of a pickle by only putting his/her foot down when they noticed to lorry coming in from behind, rather than just making speed from the get-go. He could probably have made it safely in front with that 320 brake if he instantly put his foot down when the little i10 did so too. But a second or two later it was just too late. Simon did great, held up absolutely no one and got on with their ride. You don't "have" to get in front you know, if you can't make it in front safely your safe options are 1. Accelerate slower and merge in behind; or 2. Stop on the slip road and merge in when its safe; or 3. Continue on the shoulder a bit and merge in when its safe (This can be dangerous as the shoulder may be occupied or contaminated with junk. In the video there is actually a lorry up ahead on the shoulder. If you are going to employ this solution you really have to know what you're doing) But never just assume someone else is going to help you. Especially when the consequence of the combination of them not doing that, and your made decision, is a not unlikely crash.

@David_Trowbridge

11 ай бұрын

Yeah too much criticism, won't be seeing me making an appearance in this series! I know I'm not perfect and I don't need everyone pointing out any little mistake. Maybe disabling the comments is a good idea for this series.

@ashley_neal

11 ай бұрын

This criticism also surprised me as I would have done exactly the same. There are too many people who push on into something before they know it's safe ahead. This is a mentality that causes so many problems on our roads and the amount of comments even within my viewer base shows my work is not done. @Evolixe top comment of the day! Well done 👊

@shm5547

11 ай бұрын

You should never put yourself in a position where your safety is reliant on an assumed course of action from the driver ahead. Simon's driving otherwise was very safe, if a little hesitant, but that might be due to the presence of the passenger. I think it's fair to criticise this emerge, it wasn't great at all, and this channel is all about how to improve. Nobody is perfect and there was room for improvement here.

@Asto508

11 ай бұрын

Stopping on the slip road is the most terrible choice and it's always better to continue on the shoulder if you can't merge. I would agree with your comment if he was driving a heavy vehicle, but he was driving an EV with 300+ hp that can outrun every lorry instantly and that's also what the lorry driver expected him to do, yet he didn't and forced the lorry to move. What if the lorry wasn't able to move over in that situation? The cammer would have forced him to brake hard. Nothing of this is safer than just merging in front of the lorry if you can do that.

@CarCapture

11 ай бұрын

@@Asto508 Nobody forced the lorry to move over. The Ev6 speed was matched to emerge behind the lorry. The lorry driver chose to move over to make things easier but was baulked by the smaller van that didn't recognise that was their intent. Far too many people saying put your foot down and increase risk

A driving in India with a viewer needs to be done

@David_Trowbridge

11 ай бұрын

Why?

@jxpt8935

11 ай бұрын

@@David_Trowbridgewatch clear viewdriving videos in india.. you’ll see

@NotVeryGudGamer

11 ай бұрын

@@David_Trowbridgehave you seen the driving in India? It’s beautiful chaos

@posiub

10 ай бұрын

aman from clear view driving has a few videos of her and her relatives driving in india it’s very interesting!

Nice views and scenery of West and South Yorkshire. Enjoyed from yourself and Simon with chat and drive.

Lovely video. Simon is a top notch bloke and an excellent driver. Absolute pleasure to watch. Thanks Ash.

wonderful video and the drive was excellent, loved listening to everything said. Amazing to see how the automatic throttle picked up. Many thanks to you and Simon for 84 minutes of experience, well done guys

Living in that area and having driven all those roads, I was just enjoying the scenery. Brilliant informative video as well👍

Crikey, fair play to the fella for not being in any way intimidated by having Ashley in the car with him...and allowing it to be filmed.

very relaxed driver, you can sit next to or in the back, without having to pay attention yourself. A lot of people could learn something from this, so you can also get from a to b without any form of stress. I do it myself, if I have to pay more attention, due to traffic on the road or if it is unclear, then I also fall silent And very nice car😍

I drive an MG ZS EV and my car has the same issue when you switch between Eco, normal and sport mode. It remaps the throttle so dropping from normal mode to Eco would trigger regen braking and going from Eco to normal or normal to sport would trigger acelleration. I tend to set at the start of the journey and leave it so it doesn't really bother me, but the odd time I forget to change I do have to be very careful when I switch modes. Nice to see some local sights, I live in Wakefield myself so was nice to see this eposide.

I'm an EV6 GT owner and mostly drive in ECO mode as, like Simon's GT Line it's a dual motor car, ECO will have it drive mostly in rear motor only mode. Also, it's important to not use i-pedal mode as that puts it on permanent dual motor. I recommend just using 'AUTO' regen, when braking for a junction etc with nothing in front pull the left paddle to decelerate, get used to it and it's actually very good. The 'lurching' when going to Sport mode is even more pronounced when going from ECO -> GT (which is a single green button press) where not only is it changing the throttle map but also engaging the second motor.

@A2KLAU

11 ай бұрын

Also a fellow GT owner and agree, we drive ours in Eco almost all the time as there is enough power at around 300, Normal and Sport gives us 430, and GT gives us the full 580. I personally tend to have regen set to 1 as it mimics closest to an automatic car which is where I feel most comfortable driving.

@robertovers1863

11 ай бұрын

bloody hell mate its a kia not an F1 machine

Very enjoyable watch as always Ash. Those roads at about 22 minutes looked lovely to drive on! I need to figure out where that is and have a cruise one day :)

Good point about the brake light issue. Very annoying on a busy motorway and someone has there brake lights on all the time. Used to be just some grandad in there pristine automatic Vauxhall carlton, resting his left foot on the brake pedal. 😅

Great video Ashley and Simon, i love those Kia's woulnt mind one my self, had a Mk2 Kia Carens years ago and that was lovely to drive. Talking about different vehicles to try have you thought about seeing if you could drive an electric HGV or even see if there is a electric bus you could review id happily travel to drive it for you, we do have a electric bus at work but its only with us on trial so its going back soon.

Good to see you going around Yorkshire. I know the areas, not well, but enough. The junction at 25min, notice the lights on the rear camera. I'm sure that'll have caught out a few drivers

Well last weekend I drove from Barnsley over to Liverpool for a night out. And this weekend I’m seeing you drive around Barnsley, coming from Liverpool. Didn’t think I’d see you this way on 👍

On the accelerator pedal mapping, my PHEV does radically alter the pedal response as you change modes from ECO->normal->sport and vice-versa *_but_* it doesn't do what Simon says that KIA does and doesn't speed up as you switch into sport. It sounds as if the KIA treats each absolute pedal position as x% of power for that range, whereas mine reacts to relative pedal movement after switching ranges (and presumably recalibrates when you next use the full or zero pedal positions). Either way, for me, mode changes are perfectly smooth. For reference, mine's a BMW 330e.

@shm5547

11 ай бұрын

Mine does exactly the same, (hybrid) I can switch between eco/normal/sport etc whilst keeping my foot in the same place on the accelerator and the speed stays the same.

Love the cool awesome video Ashley, cas it’s cool.

I remember following an EV and the brake lights was on on every bump and dip 😅, I even saw the strobing your viewer described.

I look forward to featuring in a video of yours soon. I'm the cyclist that crept behind you yesterday evening by kirkdale train station.

Thanks, I now need to get the manual out and see if there’s an auto regen setting on my Kona rather than adjusting it with the paddles.

Thank you

Nice video and some great driving skills. Ashley, move to Yorkshire, it's pretty and the roads are much, much better than Liverpool.

Kia are a cracking brand now. Fancy a stinger myself

@robertovers1863

11 ай бұрын

yes great idea and as you drive along open the window and chuck £20 notes out

The ioniq 5 and Kia EV6 are sister cars, they are based on the same build just different styling - we are a 'slightly' younger generation and went for the ioniq 5 :P With them being sister cars they have much of the same issues: Going by the issue with reversing, we found the auto hold is very stubborn when trying to reverse and you end up shooting off far faster than comfortable - so for reversing we tend to turn off the auto hold. With that changes from eco to normal to sport - yes, while driving it is very 'jerky' when changing as Simon says.

Thought i'd put this on the latest video you have done, its got nothing to do with the video itself but thought you should know. Your friend Travis and his Cat Sigrid were in the Daily Mirror today.

The regen braking in the VAG EV's also does the variable strength thing, it also uses the satnav route.

@johnmckay1423

11 ай бұрын

Do you find it works for you? I find it disconcerting because it's inconsistent. I always use the B mode to avoid it.

@sIightIybored

11 ай бұрын

@@johnmckay1423 I am too poor to be as interested in EVs I can't afford as I am! Edit, that was the convoluted way of saying I don't have one to give my own experiences.

Even tho my Honda isn’t a hybrid, it’s a similar style of driving. None of that brake, gears, I think it’s called “shift torque” Can go along way without using the gas pedal. And it also means you can avoid using the brakes as much - as long as you read the road ahead. I literally just spent a week being ferried around in a mix of Prius hybrids, automatic (automated manuals) diesel fords, and manual Skoda Octavia diesel. The Prius hybrid is by far the closest to my Honda…and they drive very different to a manual diesel or even fords power shift automated transmission coupled to a diesel engine. It’s like one system just sails around, while the older systems it’s like clunky,

8:20 not the best emerge there. I would have been tickling the brakes and holding back to make it very obvious to the lorry driver that I would be joining the motorway in the gap behind them. Proceeding towards the end of the slip road created a dangerous and confusing situation that pressured the lorry driver to change lanes. Another option would have been to boot it and use the acceleration of the car to get well ahead, keeping an eye on the small van in lane 2.

@Asto508

11 ай бұрын

I agree, terrible merge forcing the lorry to move over. It's not like his car wasn't perfectly able to accelerate quickly and get in front of the lorry.

@WhiteEagleTube

11 ай бұрын

Yeah agree, they were both arriving at the same point at the same time. Would have been more inclined to put those 300hp to good use and get out in front.

@ashley_neal

11 ай бұрын

The space was not enough in front (dashcams distort), especially with the vehicle overtaking the lorry lane two. The regen was used and the lorry driver did the correct thing by helping out when it was possible. Back to school for you three for thinking closing the space down to one in front without an escape option is a good idea.

@shm5547

11 ай бұрын

@@ashley_neal it wasn't helped by the red car ahead being a bit slow up the slip road. First choice is to slow down on the slip here, the only traffic behind was a lorry coming up the slip and they were some way off. Certainly using acceleration to get in front of the lorry would have been riskier and maybe not possible as you say the distortion on the camera makes the gaps look bigger. I'm not sure who beeped the horn, but if it was the lorry driver, I don't think they were helping out - they were taking evasive action. Not every use of the horn is a friendly 'I'm here' toot! Trouble is, people use the horn like that and it loses its impact.

@shaunpowelluk

11 ай бұрын

Great video, and I'm an EV advocate, so always find it interesting to see fellow EV drivers on the road. Based on the footage I'm not so sure, and respectfully disagree with you, Ashley. Perhaps the view is distorted, but my concern is if the lorry didn't give way, our Kia friend (sorry, I'm bad with names) would have had to stop harshly, possibly forcing the lorry behind to brake too. It's tricky with lorries creeping from behind, and can completely understand the pressure they put on smaller cars on the road when moving nearby. Perhaps not accelerating out of that situation would have been prudent, but further anticipation and planning on the onramp would have been advisable. Also with the pressure of knowing he has a well renown KZreadr driving instructor filming his drive, it may have been extra distracting. We're all human 😅

OK, finally moved over to inside lane!

42:12 cars generally have stiffer springs in the rear than the front. One reason why is due to the natural frequencies of the springs, when going over a speed bump they allow the car to stay level (even though the front wheel hits the bump before the rear wheels) rather than bobbing back and forth which can make passengers ill.

@CarCapture

11 ай бұрын

Very true, I think the point being made is that proportionally the EV6 seems very stiffly sprung in the rear compared to other similar vehicles.

@aljowen

11 ай бұрын

@@CarCapture You mentioned in the video that you had done a few different advanced driving courses, is there one in particular that in your eyes stood out above the others in your opinion? (I do appreciate some time has passed since you did some of them)

@CarCapture

11 ай бұрын

@@aljowen While the content and approach has changed/matured since I did mine they roughly follow this path: - Fleet Driver Training: Aimed at company car/van drivers. Normally a few hours and aimed at improving awareness and observation to improve safety. - IAM: Accessed through local groups with 'training' provided by observing and advising. They are looking to standardise the level of skill in the observers but this is a good way to lift your level significantly with low level of entry/cost. The exam is (currently) a one-off test with a Police Driving Instructor or someone similar. Pass/fail -RoSPA: Uses the same skills as IAM (built on the System of Car Control and the Police Drivers Handbook). Again, accessible through local groups but perhaps less off them. Test is the same as IAM with a few tweaks and your pass is graded Gold/Silver/Bronze. There is some argument over if a Bronze or SIlver is equivalent to an IAM pass. The biggest difference is that you need to pass a renew test every 3 years. -IAM Masters: heralded as the highest standard of civilian driving in the country. This is available to all IAM members and some other direct exceptions. A pass at this level is equal to or just above a RoSPA gold with the additional grade of Distinction which is the highest standard outside of emergency services etc. I've been discussing with Ashley if I should do the Masters. It depends on your appetite and time commitment. I'd suggest doing IAM as a starting point and seeking out a local group that you feel comfortable with.

Think about flipping the mirror image, it's just wrong watching someone come up from behind on the right and then the front camera shows them on the left

It will be interesting, I’m going from Surrey to Manchester in my 2008 in a couple of weeks and it the first time in a year, to see what the charging situation is? I know I have to charge once, either at Warwick on the m6 or McD’s at the Lemington Spa junction!

@CarCapture

11 ай бұрын

I would recommend Banbury Instavolt hub if you're going that way

Nice to see what I gather would be the direct opposite to a drive with me! I have a Kona N so the engine and exhaust noise is a lot, I drive it... lets just say differently (but I'll say not unsafely) and I'm profoundly deaf so the speaking part would probably be a very different experience.

I live in Wakefield so hopefully you enjoyed some of it 😂

Regarding changing drivemode, the Hyundai Kona also changes the pedal response, and the car will accelerate slightly but notably when going to the more aggressive mode and "brake" when going the other way. Just a thing to be aware of. I don't like to drive in Sport mode, the accelerator gets way too sensitive, to the point of making me nauseous. I drive in Eco mode, fits my driving style perfectly. Cheers

@alanmorrison163

11 ай бұрын

I’ve got a Kona Hybrid, only ever use sport to overtake on single carriageway roads. The switch between modes is a nudge sideways on the gear selector and feels pretty natural.

1:10:21 bro put it in avril lavine mode on the national speed limit

The Renault Zoe does the same thing as the EV6 with regards throttle when you switch in and out of Eco mode I am surprised that you hadn't experienced it before; I thought all EVs would do that. I thought one of the main changes the driving modes are making is to change the throttle mapping, so the current throttle position would instantly mean something different in the new map

@ianmason.

11 ай бұрын

My plug in hybrid alters the throttle response in ECO mode in both fully electric and petrol modes. Moreover, it also provides haptic feedback on the throttle pedal so that you can feel the difference with your foot, and does similar if you turn on the speed limiter generating a soft stop you can feel as you reach the current limit. If it's done well enough you almost don't notice it, you just subconsciously respond to the car's apparent reluctance to respond to the throttle. I suspect that it being easily consciously noticeable would be a sign of a poor implementation. Being pedantic, we probably should both say 'accelerator pedal response' as obviously there is no literal throttle in an EV.

Agree with the praise for the Malcolm HGV driver as the emerge was poor especially when there was plenty of time, good visibility and light traffic on the slip road. Make your decision where to join the traffic in advance and adjust speed accordingly. Then not moving back from lane 2 for a considerable time ( highway code 264 ) . The channels always been educational in approach and it's too easy to criticise from the armchair so surprised this wasn't commented on by Ashley.

@ashley_neal

11 ай бұрын

There was a vehicle approaching in lane 3 that would have caused a problem getting back to lane 2 if Simon would have moved left. Go back and have a look where we were when it passed!

@williamfence566

11 ай бұрын

@@ashley_neal As advised . Re looked . The black Astra passes in lane 3 at 09:31 at this point move back to lane 1. No need to be moving into lane 2 until passing the next vehicle at 09:59. . Even allowing to move out this could have been at 09:50. Disagreed on this one but still love the channel.

@David_Trowbridge

11 ай бұрын

​@@williamfence566 mate no one cares, it wasn't an analysis video. Its people like you who stop me from wanting to take part in a video like this myself with Ashley

@ashley_neal

11 ай бұрын

@williamfence566 no problem, ever about disagreements. Can you answer this one though.... Who was held up by Simon staying in that position?

@CarCapture

11 ай бұрын

@@williamfence566 09:37 Left hand hovers over stalk, considering the move back and then decided against it with closing speeds.

Nice video

Interesting point made about cars getting larger since 70s / 80s. This brings me to my hatred for the standard size of a parkimg spaces which haven't increased to accommodate modern motor vehicles.

My hope is that with more advanced materials we will be able to have the smaller cars once again with the same level of safety. I don't like that hot hatches are almost the size of an 80s station wagon.

I'm amused by asking whether talking and driving was covered on the advanced course; My second instructor (the one who mainly taught me to drive as first one quit the school after I'd had two lessons) wouldn't stop talking! All sorts of topics too! Mostly road related, but often just smalltalk. It helped my confidence to a huge degree, I'll say that much.

@ianmason.

11 ай бұрын

Some systems of teaching advanced driving insist that the driver gives a commentary while driving on what's happening around them and what they are doing and why; so implicitly encouraging developing the skill of talking and driving safely at the same time.

@broshmosh

11 ай бұрын

@@ianmason. Ahhh I see! Thanks for explaining, it's a bit different to what I experienced. I've somehow ended up doing this technique myself anyway!

@amyk9813

11 ай бұрын

I had to do an hour plus of commentary for my IAM Masters test 😱

57:59 "Richard cranium" haha

The worst part of my MG4 is that it doesn't have a physical manual to refer to, it on screen in the car. Great video though.

Will watch with interest asap. Currently at Hyde Hall flower show in Essex. Set off from Canterbury at 7:30 am and took 1 hr 15 mins doing the speed limit. Same journey now shows as 1 hr 47 mins due to congestion at the Dartford crossing. It pays to set off early, even if it means arriving at an event before opening time! Anyhow this looks like another interesting video.

@thomaselliot2257

11 ай бұрын

Hope the rain stays away . Take it you're with your mum. Hope you both have a lovely day. Will wait and watch with interest when you and Ashley finally get together for "Driving With My Viewers" series. 👍🙂

@ibs5080

11 ай бұрын

@@thomaselliot2257 Hello and yes my mum is with me. She slept in the car part of the way up. For me, it was totally a non event, driving wise. Highest speed recorded by my GPS speedometer app was 74 mph during the 72 mile journey. Funnily enough I was thinking on the drive here what Ashley would make of my driving as well as what sort of viewer comments I would get if it was posted as a video. I wonder if I will ever have the courage to actually go through with it. Of course there's also the challenge of respective locations. Ashley is based in Liverpool and I'm in Canterbury. Phew, saved by the miles! Anyhow, hope you are have a pleasant Sunday. It's been totally dry here at Hyde Hall and partially sunny with about of a breeze.

The instant power when passing the truck….left the van standing…..initially. Then later, after the corsa went flying passed, the van caught up again.

@CarCapture

11 ай бұрын

33-60 passing the lorry and then backed off to 50 by the time the Meriva came past to give them space before the end of the 2-lane section

Nissan leaf 3rd gen review? Maybe electric 208 & electric Corsa? Corolla Hybrid?

That’s a sudden power surge just for saving modes. Tho older tech, if I switch from

@davidrumming4734

11 ай бұрын

That’s a burst of power just for switching power modes. Tho prev tech, if I switch into Drive Sport, there’s no sudden increase until I move my foot on the gas pedal. You hear the engine more change, feel the resistance increase, but no change to speed until I move the gas pedal.

Range anxiety is a big thing in Rural Canada.. and I have 'petrol' vehicles.. hundreds of Km is nothing.. I have range anxiety with my smaller gas vehicles if I was to get stuck behind an accent for hours with kids in the car that need heat (or A/C, in the rare occasion).. 300 km without an open gas station is nothing.. There are very few chargers up here.. My 11 year old F150 can drive over 1000 km on one tank of fuel.. mind you it is a 140 L fuel tank, but I feel safe.

I would have liked to see Simon in an empty lane 1 on a busy 3 lane motorway with lanes 2 and 3 moving at 55 to 60mph. Would he slow down or just overtake????

@CarCapture

11 ай бұрын

That would be most evenings on the M1 from lofthouse intertchange south and I would always hold back unless the risk was greater from behind. e.g. you're being pushed by a lorry or frustrated driver. Underatking is always a high risk manoeuvre, regardless of the rules, and would be the last resort

I hate to be the dissenting voice here, but I don't like EVs. They're like LED lights, they're being forced on us whether we want them or not. I don't like the idea of having to stop and charge up for 20 minutes even once on a long journey; they're fine for a city car, assuming you have somewhere to charge them at home, but not everyone has off-street parking and therefore space for a charger. Some of us live in blocks of flats where the only option is on-street parking and where the nearest public chargers are half a mile away and when you get there, the three or four charge points that are there are in use. I do wish hydrogen had taken off instead. The two most interesting cars I've ever driven were the Hyundai ix35 and the Toyota Mirai. Absolutely brilliant, drive just like an EV (well they are EVs, just without the plugging in bit) and take no longer to fuel than a petrol or diesel car. The only thing that lets them down is the lack of refuelling infrastructure, there are literally only a handful in the whole of the UK, most of them in London. Up here in the north of Scotland, there are two, both in Aberdeen. The next one south is Sheffield. I'll stick with my petrol car for now, thanks all the same.

@robertovers1863

11 ай бұрын

well said that man i never ever want an ev and with any luck i will be dead before one is forced on me oh just remembered im about to buy my first mobility scooter, my bad

@TestGearJunkie.

11 ай бұрын

@@robertovers1863 That girl actually, but I'll let you off, it's not obvious from the username 😋👧

@CarCapture

11 ай бұрын

You make a very good point. The irony is that they are excellent city cars but that is exactly where the challenges of off-street parking and charging are at their worst. There are new innovations coming along all the time for kerbside charging but nobody has solved the issue for those in blocks of flats or shared parking areas. As for the long distances. With the EV6 it's not an issues. 200+ miles without a stop, at today's motorway speeds is about as long as I (personally) want/can drive without a comfort break. Hydrogen would/should/could be a viable alternative and I'm sure with investment it makes sense, certainly for the bus and truck world but it also comes with its own challenges and the vast amount of electricity required to create the product cannot be ignored. Same way as the electric fuelling the EV6 isn't as 'green' as some people will have you believe. A topic for another day though.

@TestGearJunkie.

11 ай бұрын

@@CarCapture Yeah, we have both electric and hydrogen-fuelled buses here, but they have dedicated parking when they get back to base. I know a guy who works for the local council here and he took a Hyundai ix35 to Edinburgh and back, he just made it but the car was running on the equivalent of fumes. And you *don't* let a hydrogen car run out of fuel, it's a major headache...

10:40 finally

The point about passengers watching where they put their fat heads is well made. The other week my passenger bent forwards to get something out of a bag, and put their head smack in line with the left door mirror _just_ as I needed to make a mirror check. A discussion, OK a diatribe, about why that it a poor thing to do then ensued. If I don't need the leg room for a passenger in the back I normally put the front passenger seat way back so that a passenger's head is naturally obscuring the B pillar, minimising the proportion of the view that is normally blocked.

@GeorgeThoughts

11 ай бұрын

Agreed. My gf has a habit of checking left and right when we pull up to a junction if she's in the passenger seat! I tell her that her leaning forward to check blocks me, the actual driver, from seeing left myself 😆

@ianmason.

11 ай бұрын

@@GeorgeThoughts I can kind of forgive that, as an ingrained "what is going on around me" reflex is a good thing to have (I have been known to do a shoulder check, sitting on the sofa watching one of Ash's videos) but obviously not if it interferes with the driver's view.

@robertovers1863

11 ай бұрын

i think my wife has a fat head i never noticed until your comment i think i will transfer her to the back seat from now on

1:16:22 I would not call that a narrow road! Try driving in Cornwall or the Lake District. The problem here is not the width of the road, it's the width of the car.

@aleksei5172

11 ай бұрын

Are you sure? In the rear camera, you can see that the Peugeot behind barely fits into the lane with its wing mirrors

@shm5547

11 ай бұрын

@@aleksei5172 red bank, grasmere is a narrow road, this is not. I would have no problem driving down here at all. I don't have a problem driving down red bank!

@aleksei5172

11 ай бұрын

@@shm5547 That's good for you if you feel confident on narrow roads. It does mean though that any road you feel confident in, is not narrow.

@shm5547

11 ай бұрын

​@@aleksei5172 A narrow road is one where the width is such you may need to pull over or reverse for an oncoming vehicle. If it's wide enough for dashed lines down the middle, it's not narrow.

@AdamColl

11 ай бұрын

@@shm5547 I agree, I've seen narrower A roads around Coniston

I haven't driven an EV, but I hate the idea of fighting the regenerative brake signals. Many drivers would get triggered if they were looking at brake lights while cruising along at 70 mph on clear roads.

Come to Gibraltar and drive with me.

@ashley_neal

11 ай бұрын

Ok! Send in some information! I have actually driven in Gibraltar before though!

Re Lorrys to blur or not too blur, I think you hit the nail on the head when said you try to read all the comments. Image you run a haulage company and have 5 people working full-time the you get 20 hours of gopro vigilantes sent in each week, they probably won't be on top of you to do list . That is still no excuse for the driver.

@goodyeoman4534

11 ай бұрын

I say don't blur. The company is responsible for the driver they employ. And I don't care about their profits, but road safety.

@AM2K2

11 ай бұрын

@@goodyeoman4534 How noble of you - what if the driver no longer works for the company?

@marcel-jt3dy

11 ай бұрын

@@AM2K2 they may may be a gopro vigilante themselves.

The EV6 is a bit of a copy of the iPace. A classic example of technical leader and fast follower manufacturers.

Why doesn’t anyone make an electric estate car?

@haydensaxby2158

11 ай бұрын

The MG5 is an estate, but there are very few electric estates, which is a shame. I think it's easier to put the battery in an SUV body.

I was very surprised by the miles per KWh; is the EV6 THAT heavy?? I have the old 27KWh Soul EV, and even with a dragging rear brake caliper (fixed under warranty), I havent had less than 3.8, and currently getting 4.8; admittedly town and country road driving, no motorways.

@CarCapture

11 ай бұрын

Our Soul (careful how you say that) consistently out-performs the EV6 in efficiency with very similar figures to yours. Mixed, slow motorway and town. EV6 does more high speed motorway but the weight is the main killer to efficiency

@ianemery2925

11 ай бұрын

@@CarCapture Thank you for that; after seeing much lower efficiency figures from a couple of other newer EVs, I was beginning to wonder if the figures I am seeing were wrong. It is sad KIA arent going to produce a 3rd generation of the Soul EV; it is ideal for people with mobility issues getting in or out of a lower seat position, who dont want a hulking great SUV; at 6!6', the Soul is one of the very few cars I have driven where I dont have to worry about head or leg room. I am also sad that there appear to be no retro battery fit options; with the Leaf, you can get some of the latest, largest battery packs to fit all but the very oldest cars; but the pack from the current Soul EV apparently wont fit the old car.

@alanmorrison163

11 ай бұрын

The Soul always seemed unnecessary to me alongside the Niro (same with the Stonic). Too many different models in the same market segment.

@ianemery2925

11 ай бұрын

@@alanmorrison163 The Soul EV was originally KIA's "compliance" car, like Nissan's "Fluence" (so unpopular, I have only ever seen one - and that an advert to sell it s/h) and Mercedes B250e, a thrown together EV from an existing ICE car to meet California's EV requirements. The fact it turned out to be a very practical and popular car was a miracle; the Niro was designed ground up to take ICE, ICE+Hybrid, ICE + PHEV, or EV drive-trains. However, although the Niro is a very nice car, it lacks the character of the Soul; it is, in fact, souless; the Soul has a silhouette that stands out in any group of cars; and can confidently be chucked around corners on twisty country roads - more like an original Mini converted to EV, than the actually BMW Mini EV. I tried out all the early EVs, as they match my driving needs these days; as I am too ill to travel far. The Leaf driver's seat is awful; the seat padding is too thin, and the springs dig into my arse. The Merc is range crippled by the lack of ANY fast or rapid charging option - and the cabin is too narrow; my shoulder was hard up against the B pillar. Renaults offerings are great if you are doing hundreds of miles a week - but for what I do, battery rental is more that I was paying in petrol; besides, I vowed never to have another Renault after the "fun" I had getting parts for the last one. And all of the above are too low for my poor back, which has been broken more than once. In the Soul, you sit higher, the seats are generously sized and padded, visibility is great and with one exception, the controls are well laid out; and at 6'6", I still have plenty of room between the top of my head and the roof liner. Sadly, not only does it seem there wont be a 3rd gen of the Soul, but we wont see the wireless charging version Kia made using the original Soul EV, where you just park it over an induction loop and get 10KWh charging.

2.8 miles/kWh average, someone likes a spirited drive!

@ianmason.

11 ай бұрын

The local countryside is a bit "up hill and down dale" so that's going to have an impact.

@CarCapture

11 ай бұрын

@@ianmason. Actually, the overall figure for the drive out with Ashley was 3.9 mi/kWh. The motorway is way more impactful than hills as most hill you go up, you also come down.

@ianmason.

11 ай бұрын

@@CarCapture Better to comment to the message you're correcting, rather than on one of the comments to it. YT's comment system is broken enough of itself without helping it along. 🤣

@CarCapture

11 ай бұрын

@@ianmason. I did. I was replying to you

@ianmason.

11 ай бұрын

OK. As the OP mentioned a consumption figure, you mentioned a consumption figure and I didn't it looked like it was the consumption figure, and thus the OP, that you were addressing.

Ive got to take issue with the giving way on roundabout exits. No one knows about this rule and least of all pedestians. If a vehicle gets hit from the rear it potentialy hits any pedestrians that have assumed their right of way. It's madness.

ASHLEY BOT IN COMMENTS

Dunno where this was, I don't think I saw a single pothole during the entire video...

Ev' s no thanks , i like to hear an engine , they are not as green as you think and dont forget self combustion and thermal runaway

I don't know about "passengers considering if their fat head is in the way", could you come around and tell my other half that when we arrive at our destination and I am parallel parking, it might not be the best time to bend forward to grab her bag and sit the bag on her knee (both of which obscure my nearside mirror. 😂

This makes me convinced taking part with Driving with my Viewers would absolutely won't work. Boring car, boring location , but more importantly, boring, lost for words , inarticulate driver, who would make mistakes due to nervousness in front of the camera and sitting next to Ashley. Ashley,in fact, would have to do all the driving for a start, but then again , THAT might work. 🙄

Don't indicate to get on the motorway.

Am I the only one who feels guilty when you overtake a cyclist and then the car behind you dangerously overtakes them? I sometimes wish I never went past and waited till there was room for both you and the car behind? I guess there's allot out of your control and probably shouldn't feel guilty about other people's lack of care?

@micheals1992

11 ай бұрын

It also often happens even when there is loads of room for the car behind to move over and they don't.

@micheals1992

11 ай бұрын

I also feel the same guilt when you can see a pedestrian approaching a zebra crossing, you carrying isn't going to effect them. But then you see a car behind almost run them over 😱

1:13:00 why on earth would you be looking for 'run off areas' on a public road! It's not a racetrack 🤦‍♀and whilst I can see the problem meeting an oversized vehicle on a narrow road, I can't see why a cyclist would be a problem.

@ianmason.

11 ай бұрын

A consequence of the IAM training probably. There's a strong emphasis in the IAM world on having somewhere else to go if it all goes wrong. That all has its origin in the police driver training roots of the IAM approach to driving. In an emergency the police don't always have the luxury of being able to take the slow and steady approach and have to push things to the point where they _are_ in effect racing on the roads. If you're going to do that safely _and_ maintain progress then sometimes you need to have escape routes planned that are a bit more aggressive than just "brake or move over a lane". While you wouldn't plan to use those in that fashion in more normal driving, it doesn't hurt to constantly look for escape routes from worst case scenarios and have a prepared plan for how you might use them in mind. e.g. coming up to a blind bend - "Is there a run off that I can use if someone comes speeding around this corner on my side of the road?".

@shm5547

11 ай бұрын

@@ianmason. when I did the IAM training, no escape route planning included leaving the road, I doubt very much if even the police teach this for normal driving, even emergency response driving. I would think it's only relevant for pursuit and containment.

@ianmason.

11 ай бұрын

@@shm5547 I can state for a certainty that back in the 80s the Met's police training included run offs as escape routes of last resort to get out of trouble but a run off doesn't have to be 'off road' in the strict sense - a farm track, an access road and the like are all good candidates. Source: one Sgt. who at the time was a Trafpol trainer/examiner for the Met. He was the father of a biker friend and for the life of me I can't think of his or her surname at the moment.

@shm5547

11 ай бұрын

@@ianmason. well, it wasn't mentioned in my IAM training at the end of the 90's. Offsiding on a left-hand bend was taught though! I understand this practice has been dropped by the IAM and police. It's not something I would consider in daily driving. Certainly, if I wasn't to use a road because of a lack of runoffs, I would have had trouble getting anywhere in Cornwall recently!

Middle lane motorway driver 😞

@lewistillett206

11 ай бұрын

That was fine, he was comfortably catching the vehicles on the left

If there's a burning smell get out quick

@maybenot6075

11 ай бұрын

*and run!* the speed these things go up at is ridiculous, then they melt into the tarmac

@Marvhead

11 ай бұрын

Yeah, cos petrol cars never catch fire, do they?

@CJGAMES4202

11 ай бұрын

​@@Marvheadpetrol fires can be put out EV ones can't

@DaleSteel

11 ай бұрын

Especially run if its got cobalt in the battery

@jamesthompson2065

11 ай бұрын

@@Marvhead Woah there, I don't think they were saying all electric cars go up in flames, just that if they do, they go quickly.

piss poor emerge on to the motorway, he should have increased speed much earlier to get in front of the lorry, or decrease and let him pass. to just keep at that one speed was useless driving

@ashley_neal

11 ай бұрын

To then close the space down in front with nowhere to go, as lane 2 was occupied? Would you like to change your mind on this?

@ashley_neal

11 ай бұрын

Speed was changed to fit in behind

@ashley_neal

11 ай бұрын

And then again when the lorry moved over

@joe188

11 ай бұрын

​@@ashley_neal I have to disagree with you on this one mate, the gap between the car and lorry was expanding and was plenty big enough for the emerge Infront of the lorry

@robertovers1863

11 ай бұрын

@@ashley_neal we all heard the lorries horn that was in frustration or to warn him about coming over 99.9% of lorry drivers are better drivers and he saw the poor emerge coming

Middle lane hogger or what

I actually disagree with all this tech... Auto lights leave reliant people with no rear lights and sometimes no headlights. Cruise Control allows people to sleep at the wheel. Auto lane correction lets people daydream at the wheel. Too much tech is slowing the average driver brain down and its getting more and more evident. Add the usage of mobile phones ( which i see being used absolutely everywhere) and we are looking at a safe driving disaster!!! 40 grand to turn your brain off whist driving is where we are all going and it wont stop because everyone would rather look ""cool"" than drive safe. Everything about this video promotes dangerous driving but its not accepted because we all want to drive around in all our over priced cans. Give me an old M3 any day over this modern garbage... instant Torque isn't needed on our public roads for safety, but it is needed to please the hierarchy of or driving community. to many people out their trying to be better on a shared public road.