FORD PUMA GEN-E
Are oil-burners cheaper to run? Depends on the oil…
MILEAGE 2801 WHY WE’RE RUNNING IT Is this the best cheap EV on the market?
If you have a scientific background, please look away now. Go on, turn the page; Alex has written about cheap Bentleys. For those of you who are still here, I’m about to deploy some man maths.
In my first report, I posited that the Puma Gen-E, currently available from as little as £132 per month with £1800-ish down, might just make fantastic financial sense. Its cost-effectiveness allows you to pump capital into other things. The best bet is probably an S&P 500 index tracker. But maybe you’ve got your eye on a new kitchen or that 2006 Aston Martin V8 Vantage you’ve been stalking on Autotrader.
LOVE IT
ASTONISHINGLY SIMPLE I am loving the easy-going, no-nonsense nature of the car. It is very much a Puma that happens to be electric, rather than a UFO for start-up founders.
LOATHE IT
INCORRECT UNITS My Gen-E has one very odd quirk: when it starts up, it gives me the battery percentage and how many miles it has left, but it displays the miles as kilometres.