Here is one of the questions from the last webinar:
Hi Benny
I really want a new petrol car before it’s too late. I am under the impression that it is urgent to buy an electric car, but is it really the last car with a combustion engine that is urgent? They are probably at their very best now, while electric cars will only get better and better in the future…
Anyway, if you stick with a brand new BMW M3 with a perspective of five years, do you think you will financially come out worse than, for example, a brand new electric Porsche Taycan?
Benny replies:
Hello, this is an interesting dilemma that I can relate to well.
After four years with the Tesla Model S, which I was otherwise very happy with, I bought a petrol car again. A Porsche Panamera Sport Turismo, plug-in hybrid. Not because it’s rechargeable, but because that’s what I could afford.
I haven’t regretted it for a second – even after driving round-trip Asker – Nordkapp this summer and filling up fuel for probably NOK 14,000-15,000.
The idea behind the car change was the same as yours. I wanted a real petrol car. One that makes a really good sound, that shifts with super-precise shifts and that offers good performance and sharp driving characteristics – before it’s too late. Simply realizing a dream before it is seen as total “madness”.
Then you have to pay the price it costs. It is a conscious choice and, after all, you only live once.