Welcome Vicboy1960 to the C-HR Forums UK site! Great to hear your comparison of your Range Rover Evoque to the C-HR Excel. I felt the same when I bought mine, but I was moving from a Renault Megane that was 16 years old, so very different starting points!Hi all, new to this site. Collected my 2020 (June) C-HR Hybrid Excel on May 3rd, having traded in my 2016 Range Rover Evoque.
Now, right up to collection I was having doubts over the trade because I really loved my Evoque but it was a 2016 model and the exchange price was strong.
However, after collecting the C-HR I did an 80 mile round trip on the A1 and all doubts eradicated. Aside from the 69.1 MPG, what a lovely drive. Smooth as silk until high speed when engine was a bit noisy. Interior is immaculate, although not quite as good as Evoque which was exceptionally plush. Exterior look of C-HR so sleek and the technology seems outstanding.
So, overall, delighted with the car. Good to be back in a petrol again after years of diesel and with the 10 year guarantee, I am now glad I made the change - although I do hope the Evoque goes to a good home, as it was a bit special!
Back down to around 65-66 mpg now. It will decrease as I drive faster but at the moment I seem to be spending a lot of my trips trying to keep the needle in eco!!Sounds like a bit of a downgrade but glad to hear you're happy so far! Not sure how you managed 69 mpg on the A1, best I can do is about 55 mpg on a fast road like that.
Thanks for filling in the background info. I've never been a fan of diesels though I do love driving my friend's BMW 3 series GT version X-drive - that is one fast car and makes a glorious sound.Yes, 1.8. Does not have the kick of the Range Rover which was a 2 litre. The RR was obviously a diesel, but I got around 45mpg on a run and 40mpg in town because it had the Evoque Blue Badge which meant it was super low emission - £30 a year road tax.
However, it was coming up to 7 years old and I had the DPF replaced at £2k because of a crack in it - nobody will warranty against them nowadays. Also, the RR Evoque's from 2016 to 2019 were notorious for timing chain issues, with a £3k bill to replace in case of failure - and only then if the failure had not led to a £15k complete new engine.
So, however much I loved the RR, I only had 1 year left on the warranty and it made sense to change now when second hand values are so high.
With the C-HR, it is good to be back to petrol after 4 consecutive diesels and that 10 year rolling manufactures warranty does bring the peace of mind I was beginning to lose with the RR.
Lastly, my days of belting along are gone now. At 63, finally recently went back to 0 points on my licence after having 9 during the covid years thanks to a 6 pointer up in Scotland in a built up area that seemed to be one church, one school and three houses! And alongside the points was a £2.7k fine with costs (50 in a 30mph). So, 1.8l enough for me now!!
Oh man oh man £2700 when you past the church you didn't run the Catholic Father over by any chance to acquire that amount.Yes, 1.8. Does not have the kick of the Range Rover which was a 2 litre. The RR was obviously a diesel, but I got around 45mpg on a run and 40mpg in town because it had the Evoque Blue Badge which meant it was super low emission - £30 a year road tax.
However, it was coming up to 7 years old and I had the DPF replaced at £2k because of a crack in it - nobody will warranty against them nowadays. Also, the RR Evoque's from 2016 to 2019 were notorious for timing chain issues, with a £3k bill to replace in case of failure - and only then if the failure had not led to a £15k complete new engine.
So, however much I loved the RR, I only had 1 year left on the warranty and it made sense to change now when second hand values are so high.
With the C-HR, it is good to be back to petrol after 4 consecutive diesels and that 10 year rolling manufactures warranty does bring the peace of mind I was beginning to lose with the RR.
Lastly, my days of belting along are gone now. At 63, finally recently went back to 0 points on my licence after having 9 during the covid years thanks to a 6 pointer up in Scotland in a built up area that seemed to be one church, one school and three houses! And alongside the points was a £2.7k fine with costs (50 in a 30mph). So, 1.8l enough for me now!!
Ironically with the newly launched 5th generation hybrid power units as seen in the 2023 model year Corolla, the 2 litre is the more economical & cleaner power unit option due to being a dynamic force engine.Is yours the more economical 1.8 engine? I have the 2.0 which is a tad more thirsty but worth it for the extra 50 bhp!
Actually, an interesting reply because it shows just how many motorists, just like I was until early in 2020, are unaware of the Band A, B, and C speeding offences now.Oh man oh man £2700 when you past the church you didn't run the Catholic Father over by any chance to acquire that amount.
Just read the post,agree with UK being an odd place.Actually, an interesting reply because it shows just how many motorists, just like I was until early in 2020, are unaware of the Band A, B, and C speeding offences now.
Band A is the worst, with Band C the most common at 31-40mph in a 30mph zone. Band B is 41-50mph in a 30 zone and Band A above. Each band carries a fine of a percentage of weekly income. Band B is 75% to 125% of weekly income plus 4 to 6 penalty points.
Hence, I had 3 points already which were six weeks away from expiry! So, I got the 6 penalty points plus the fine. Now, when the paperwork comes through, it asks for details of weekly income plus a list of assets. I was advised that the magistrates court have the same power as the HMRC and if you lie about income / assets, they can investigate and fine you heavily for misleading them. So, I told the truth and got hammered. Most motorists seem not to be aware of all of this, which shows either people drive well in the UK or we don't have enough cameras!
The unfairness to me here, though, was how I was caught at exactly 50 mph in a 30 zone. I thought it was still a 50 zone and had my speed limiter on! But it was the borders of Scotland and I was caught out by the sudden drop to 30 zone. I realised within seconds and hit the anchors, but too late to avoid a mobile patrol flashing me. As it turned out, the place where the mobile patrol was sitting is where the 9th most number of people are caught out by mobile patrols in the country. So, they know what the are doing but you'd think some of the massive income being gathered in fines would go towards making it clearer to motorists that a change from 50mph to 30mph happens quite suddenly. No room for common sense nowadays.
To end, five months after my offence, the same police force did not prosecute Dominic Cummings for breaking Covid rules on his 'to test my eyes drive'. Today, the UK is a very skewed and odd place!!!
If the people you know of have avoided such heavy fines despite being on 6 figure sums weekly (that's 100k a week!) they must have chanced their arm and lied on the income and assets sheet, or are making that kind of dough illegally, or it was before these banded fines were introduced, or they simply said they weren't fined like that when they were!Just read the post,agree with UK being an odd place.
But up here where I live I don't think we have any fixed speed cams. But the new mobile ones are a bummer not all the same colour dark blue,silver,grey.
On the fine ratio,we kno several gents who are on 6 figure sums weekly, and they haven't been whacked as hard as that.
On the Cummings thing we still see folks doing the selfie thing where he allegedly sat loads Try driving from his dad's to there with dodgy blinkers wouldn't have got 3 miles before he went into the river.
A mobile unit as Durham goes into Cleveland once clocked 3000 in a little over 2 days a lot were let off but I was not that lucky.
Oh welcome to the forum btw I didn't mean to chip in on the Catholic Father thing I do apologise.
Yes my wife says it was round about 2015, just goes to show and I think the Band thing came in after so I was miles out.If the people you know of have avoided such heavy fines despite being on 6 figure sums weekly (that's 100k a week!) they must have chanced their arm and lied on the income and assets sheet, or are making that kind of dough illegally, or it was before these banded fines were introduced, or they simply said they weren't fined like that when they were!
This isn't me making it up, it's the law. Take a look on the internet. Even the gov.uk website explains it.
This all explains why you sometimes see a Premier League footballer fined tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands with one England international. Percentage of earnings. Then, there is the court costs, the victim levy fees etc. Quite what victims there were of me doing 50mph for 200 yards at 2:30pm on a Monday afternoon in late January where the weather was crystal clear I will never know.
Surely an income generator because if it was so dangerous, why haven't they taken steps to show the change down from 50 to 30 much more clearly?
Answer: because the fines income is welcome. (And I don't approve of speeding BTW. But having no allowance for common sense and genuine mistakes is typical of the UK nowadays).
