Need some help deciding which EV to buy SUV or station wagon as far as vehicle type goes, need a bigger car this time and would like to ask for some tips on which are reliable and as a secondary parameter good range or battery capacity, features and esthetics are not important also i’m in Germany and how best to approach buying a used EV, any tips are appreciated.
The enyaq has sold like warm breadrolls for good reason, it kind of hits the sweet spot for a lot criteria while not being too expensive. However, the market is like 75% SUVs, so if you don’t specify what you want, it’s hard to recommend something.
Not too many station wagons in the market… there’s the id7, but that’s still pretty new so you probably won’t find a cheap one. There are the Astra sports tourer and the Peugeot 308 sports wagon which I don’t know too much about but which seem decent. The mg5 is an older Chinese model with all the implications that brings, but maybe you’ll find a cheaper used one. The Porsche Taycan had been the only station wagon in the market for years and its resell value sucks compared to its list price, so maybe check out for some deals there?
For practical reasons, maybe check out some Hochdachkombis? The Citroën Berlingo e.g. is a terrific car when it comes to being useful. Won’t give you too much street cred before the next traffic light race though.
I do not understand the Enyaq hype personally. It’s not that cheap and it felt pretty uncomfortable to me. Sluggish as well for an EV, the Hyundai E-Kona was noticeably quicker to react to input despite being less powerful. And somehow the seats were less uncomfortable. Test drove them both before the Ioniq 5 came out though. I later test drove that and… Basically if you’ve never owned an expensive (or formerly expensive) car with a good suspension setup, I think you’ll love it. Basically everything else about it was great, just not the actual driving characteristics.
I’m now slightly more seriously looking at used EVs, both the EQC 400 and Polestar 2 are cheaper than the Enyaq as long as you’re looking for AWD versions of each. Personally I’m of the opinion that if a car tries to pass off as a crossover “SUV”, it better have at least some form of AWD. I haven’t actually test driven either of them, but I assume they HAVE to be better than the Enyaq. I used to own the S205 C-Class that the EQC is loosely based off of and that was significantly better, but then it was also an ICE vehicle, so less weight for the suspension to deal with.
RWD Enyaqs are close to AWD EQCs in price though. But if it’s RWD, they should also lower it and make it a proper station wagon… Or if it needs to be tall, make it a proper minivan. Half my wagons have been more capable off road than a base Enyaq, so in what goddamn world is it a crossover “SUV”… Ugh fuck car manufacturers.