Alright.
So I'm in the VWE up and I'm just about to take it for a little drive.
So I'll talk you through.
You know what I think about this car in terms of driving it as we go along?
And I'll tell you what, this car is my gear.
Guilty pleasure. I love it.
I love it. Spoiler alert.
I love it. It's just so much fun.
I'm actually driving at the moment as
my main car, a VW ID Three, and it's all right.
But it is a little bit boring.
Even the Tesla Model Three,
which I had before, that was in comparison,
a little bit boring to this because what I love about the VW up is it sort of takes
me back to when I used to have like a Nova GSI or an hour bath.
It's just a fun little car to drive around.
And this one, I think the brake horsepower,
with it being the E Up is about 85 brake horsepower.
But obviously it's a fairly little and light car.
So the acceleration on it is really quite good.
It's quite zippy.
The Nauto 60 time that is actually mentioned in all the documentation
and the specification stats and so on is I think it's about 11.9 seconds north to 60,
which I thought, oh, man, this is going to be really painful driving
this car around, but it does not feel like that at all.
And I don't know if other people have done a proper Naught to 60 test of their own
using all that gear, but for me, this car is quite nippy.
Fair enough, if you get it out on an open road like a dual carriageway motorway
and you put your foot down, it doesn't feel that fast then,
but it's still fast enough and you get straight up to 70 miles an hour with no
problem and generally driving it around, it just feels quite zippy.
So that was the first surprise I had.
And when I had, this car dropped to me
because by the way, I use onto you might see a link underneath this video.
I subscribe to this car, so I pay,
I think it's three nine, $9 a month, no deposit, one month at a time.
So I can give this car back next month if I want to.
And then that includes everything like the insurance, the electric charging,
you get all of these cars to use to charge the car up and maintenance and everything.
So it's like a fixed cost motoring, 3991 month, no deposit and that's it.
And if up to 1000 miles a month,
you can do for that price, although you can add on more.
But if you're interested in finding out
more about that, this is the sort of lowest car in the range that they have.
They have loads of different cars,
all electric, and there's a 50 pound off coupon code
below that will just get you 50 pound off your first month with them.
So go ahead and register up
with that and then maybe at some point you might want to decide to use them.
But yeah, I had this car delivered
and then the guy who bought it, I volunteered to take him back
to the train station because onto delivered the car to you.
And then the driver finds his own way home.
But I took him back and I just had a smile on my face straight away.
It just felt so fun.
The steering is very light, really light.
I mean, you can drive this car with two fingers.
Not that I encourage it and as I say, it's quite zippy.
The handling is good, it's quite firm.
So going round bends and everything,
there's not a lot of body roll, which is something I really can't stand.
And then as regards the sort of comfort of it, it's really comfortable.
The driving position is quite good and it handles potholes in the road
and everything perfectly fine, of which there are many, of course,
and yeah, the overall driving experience is just comfortable and fun.
And then you've got like, the range.
Well, the range of this car, I think,
is 166 miles on paper in perfect, perfect conditions.
But obviously that's drastically reduced when it's freezing cold.
And right now when I'm doing this video, it's actually seven deg this morning.
It was really cold and the car only had like 25 miles of charge.
And then it put everything on me.
I put it down to eco plus plus mode so that it kept the range.
All the goodies were gone and I managed
to take my son to school and back and get it charged up.
There's another video on that, by the way, on how to charge the VW up.
If you want to find out more about that, just subscribe or just go and have a look
at my next videos and then you'll be able to see it.
But yeah, overall, my thoughts on driving
this, especially after driving my VW ID three, which is pretty mundane,
is this takes me back to my first years of driving on my 20s as well,
like with all these little nippy hot hatches and things that I used to have
and I really enjoy driving it, so yeah, well worth considering.
If you like the VW up, give it a test drive.
See what you think.
Let me know in the comments if you've got one and tell me what you think about it.