Behold an almost free new electric car.

[scotta]

Navigate your way to the citreon AMI page https://www.citroen.co.uk/ami and add the discount code AMISUMMER will remove over £3k from the list price. Follow this you can with a £500 deposit have one for £46 a month.

@mik Says hes buying one...Probably.

Beware of monaco hairpins however.

[Rich B]

where the hell would you use one unless you lived and worked in a city? they have a top speed of 28mph…

i suppose it would be ok to commute to a local station.

[mik]

I was looking at this last night after @scotta alerted me. You can play with the finance deposit, but a 3yr lease comes to around £2k all-in. Pay £100 deposit and it's around £60 per month. Pay £1800 up front, and it only costs you £3 per month.

I was thinking it could be a very useful (additional) thing (quadrocycle not car) to have around at this price, but..... I stuck details into confused dot com and discovered they are not cheap to insure. I assumed they would be £buttons, but annual insurance cost for one of these (using zero NCB) is about the same as I pay for the Evora (with full NCB).

Taking that into account - it's not that cheap overall. Shame.

edit: my brief research did reveal however that they use the same mouldings for the front and the back, and there is only one door design : hinged conventionally on one side, and suicide on the other.

[Simon]

At that price you could get two. One for each foot.

[scotta]

where the hell would you use one unless you lived and worked in a city? they have a top speed of 28mph…

i suppose it would be ok to commute to a local station.

As an experiment i set the speed limiter on the BMW to 28mph last night. I concluded this to be dangerous on the country roads round us.

It would be fine as you suggested for use as a station car or if you were in town.

[Mito Man]

I saw someone looking absolutely miserable in one of these is the London traffic during the heatwave. Didn't realise they don't have AC.
For me it feels like a pretty useless thing in that its so limited. It's pretty useless as a car but in the city it has all the usual car drawbacks. I'd just rather ebike.

[Swervin_Mervin]

I was looking at this last night after @scotta alerted me. You can play with the finance deposit, but a 3yr lease comes to around £2k all-in. Pay £100 deposit and it's around £60 per month. Pay £1800 up front, and it only costs you £3 per month.

I was thinking it could be a very useful (additional) thing (quadrocycle not car) to have around at this price, but..... I stuck details into confused dot com and discovered they are not cheap to insure. I assumed they would be £buttons, but annual insurance cost for one of these (using zero NCB) is about the same as I pay for the Evora (with full NCB).

Taking that into account - it's not that cheap overall. Shame.

edit: my brief research did reveal however that they use the same mouldings for the front and the back, and there is only one door design : hinged conventionally on one side, and suicide on the other.

Wasn't hte point of them to be insurance friendly for the youngsters?

[Mito Man]

I didn't want to mess up my presaved insurance form so just put in the Ami with my 8 years NCB or whatever and it came out as more expensive than my Defender. Imagine its almost a grand with no NCB.

[tim]

The usual people on X are frothing over this. Seems like an excellent way to waste a few thousand quid. Probably worth £5p at the end too

[scotta]

The usual people on X are frothing over this. Seems like an excellent way to waste a few thousand quid. Probably worth £5p at the end too

It'll be worth fuck all at the end - PCP hand back deal.

Oh - and they only come with 2 years warranty.

[DeskJockey]

A modern version of the G-Whizz. Seems more gimmick than useful.

[mik]

I have only watched this without sound due to meeting multitasking.

I expect it is far more exciting with sound...... probably.

[integrale_evo]

Have you seen how they’re built?

The frame is thin box section steel that looks more like a 6th form go cart project. Then clad with wheelybin plastic panels.

I mean, they’re quite cool but incredibly cheap and shoddy, I expect the battery and motor make up 99.9% of the build cost, and about a tenner in materials for the rest.

Insurance probably high because there’s virtually zero crash safety.

[Rich B]

i like the concept of the same front rear mouldings, no paint and asymmetrical doors, but it isn’t really a “car”. I think they should make admin actual car one using the same concept.

[Jobbo]

There was a guy who lived near our old house with one. I saw it a few times. I like the way it looks but it's not exactly practical.

This is his Youtube channel, and specifically the video where he handed it back to Citroen because it had issues, and he got a full refund for what he paid new after a couple of years. That is a free electric car, but not one you'd want to plan for:

[Rich B]

less than 1000 miles over 2 years - he didn’t like it that much then!

[Beany]

Whenever I see these things, I always wonder what you'd look like after some moron distracted by the infotainment in their 2.5ton EV or Range Rover had gone in the back of you at 30mph, because what Harry said.

Also, I can confirm the 'bouncy' ride in a G-Wiz as mentioned in the What Car vid - I got driven around Islington in one, once, and that was enough - the ride was so bad it was making me motion sick within 100 yards and it was otherwise basically fucking terrifying.

I think I'd rather have an Invacar, at least it looks like a deathtrap.

[Jimmy Choo]

Whenever I see these things, I always wonder what you'd look like after some moron distracted by the infotainment in their 2.5ton EV or Range Rover had gone in the back of you at 30mph, because what Harry said.

Apparently when ExWife2 turned infront of a van and caused her 3rd MX5 write off, the car being light helped. It span off into the ditch, slowly losing energy rather than one big smash.

[Beany]

Yeah, her car had crumple zones and side impact protection - something these aren't required to have.

At the very end of this video, there's footage of some of these cars going through regular front and side impact tests and....ooof, no. Being light doesn't help if the side impact is being softened via your ribcage, hip and legs. The person in that side impact car is dead in under two minutes from internal bleeding.

[Jobbo]

less than 1000 miles over 2 years - he didn’t like it that much then!

To be fair, it’s so slow that he may well have driven it every day How many miles does your average tortoise move in 2 years?