IIRC, Skoda adjusted the RRPs of all of the iV60 range so that they all came in under the £35k limit without options. You'd also be hard pressed to describe the 100kW charging option as increasing the performance of the car, it only affects the speed of charging, and even then only from a public DC charger - there's no benefit from it for your home AC charger.RichR wrote: ↑Mon Jun 28, 2021 7:35 am Options that don't affect the performance are allowed, but anything that makes it handle, brake or accelerate better and take it over the threshold can make it ineligible. The problem is of course the way the UK government dropped the threshold without warning, and it's unfortunate it was at the point Skoda had already set their RRPs.
Certainly the pricing gaps between the different trim levels are not the same if you're ordering an iV80 - the pricing is a much steeper increase from Loft up to Ecosuite.
The gaps are as follows (Loft / Lodge / Lounge / Suite / Ecosuite):
iV60: £165 - £200 - £50 - £85
iV80: £525 - £615 - £170 - £260
Seeing as the only difference is the materials that the door and dash are trimmed with as well as the material the seats are covered with, you can't tell me that you're getting a superior interior in the equivalent iV80 over the same trim model on the iV60. There's no way that it costs Skoda more to fit just because there's a bigger battery and more powerful electric motor. As an example, if you were to order an iV80 Lounge, what do you get for your £775 additional outlay over the base Loft trim level in the iV80 that you don't get in the equivalent iV60 given that the interiors will be identical (£365 upgrade cost for an iV60, £1140 for an iV80)?
Hmm...