Friday afternoon, four o’clock. Computer off, the door of your workplace can close behind you, the weekend has started. On Autoreview.nl we look back on a week in which the new Toyota Aygo X was unveiled and it became known that no one wants to share a car. Good news, bad news. Top and flop.
+ Top – The new Toyota gets adaptive cruise control as standard
A car with a low price, just find one in the Netherlands. The new Toyota Aygo X will arrive in 2022 and will make it quite difficult for the Kia Picanto and Hyundai i10. The price of the basic version remains under 16,000 euros, but then you do get adaptive cruise control. And that’s very generous, from Toyota.
+ Top – Nostalgic for the 80s? Then buy a new Ford Sierra RS Cosworth!
However, that’s easier said than done… The British company CNC Motorsport AWS builds only a very limited series of the new Ford Sierra RS Cosworth, for a price starting at 185,000 pounds (about 215,000 euros). But then you have something!
+ Top – A first in the Netherlands: you can now also charge with a non-Tesla at a Tesla Supercharger
Tesla started a trial this week, in which electric cars from other brands can also use Tesla Supercharger charging stations. The Netherlands is the first country to introduce this option. A few conditions: you can only go with a CCS plug. And without Tesla you are also slightly more expensive.
– Flop – Alas! The production model Volkswagen ID is as cool as the concept car. don’t buzz
Volkswagen hit a home run in 2017 with the electric ID. Buzz – then still written as ID Buzz. The study van looked fantastic retro, like a Volkswagen T1 that has been transported to the 21st century. But alas, the production model of the Volkswagen ID. Buzz doesn’t get that exciting…
– Flop – The Dutch are not interested in car sharing: use of shared cars is low and will remain low
The car world would go from ownership to use, it was expected. The reality is less rosy: carsharing is not popular. There are just over 87,000 shared cars in the Netherlands, but they are rarely used. Only 0.2 percent of all car journeys are made with a shared car, a share that has not grown since 2014.
– Flop – How high are fuel prices this week?
What do you think? Of course fuel prices went up again last week! Compared to the last week of October, a liter of petrol has already become one and a half cents more expensive. Diesel consumers seem to be able to breathe a sigh of relief at the moment, because compared to last week the diesel price has fallen almost a cent. Please let that be the start of an overall fuel price drop…