Thank you for posting a positive glowing review of your experience, the only point I didn't notice in your answer was, will your tessie actually have a decent resale value iyo when you need to replace it?

One way around this issue is buying through a lease hire agreement/personal contract purchase or similar? Once you have reached the end of the agreement, you can bypass paying the final balloon payment by commencing a new agreement, thus kicking the can down the road, although at some point the agreement will need to be finalised I would suggest.