About that EV I said I was buying...

A few weeks ago I sent you a newsletter titled I'm buying an EV I've never test driven. The EV in question was a Zeekr 7X — five-year novated lease, deposit ready, decision made.

I am not, in fact, buying that car.

The way it unwound is probably familiar to anyone who has ever stood at the edge of a five-year commitment and tried to imagine the world they'll be in at the end of it. The Zeekr 7x is the right car. The novated lease is, on paper, the right structure. The maths works — if everything else stays roughly the way it is for half a decade.

I sat with that condition for a while. The longer I sat with it, the less convinced I got that "everything else stays roughly the way it is" was a good bet to make in mid-2026. So we walked away from the calculations and started over.

What I'm driving instead is a small white MG4 hatch, picked up from a rental centre in Melbourne's north, on a month-to-month subscription with no commitment at all. It's the second MG I've ended up in after working through every other EV I could get my hands on — and, somewhat to my surprise, I love it. It's not the long-range, towing-capable Zeekr 7x we wanted. It is, for everything that doesn't involve our caravan, a small hatch that punches well above its price.

This week's piece is the full story: why the lease stopped feeling right, the Origin 360EV listing that felt like the clouds parting, what three weeks behind the wheel of an MG4 has actually been like, and where my head is on getting back to the Zeekr one day. Read it here.

See you next Friday.

— Robert