Insch winner of £52,000 Tesla electric car
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AN Insch man is set to drive away in a top of the range electric car after winning a competition at Heathrow Airport.
Self-confessed petrolhead, Mike Lynch will switch to a Tesla Model 3 Performance worth £52,000 after winning the, Best of the Best (BOTB) competition at
Mike who also bagged £20,000 in cash, admitted he played for the Tesla in a bid to be more “environmentally conscious” and had switched to an electric car in recent months.
Until recently Mike, ( 48) had been driving a Range Rover V8, however in a bid to be more green recently switched to the BMW i3s electric car because Tesla was too far out of his price range.
He said: "This is an incredible car. Its performance matches that of most sports cars and it’s stacked with gadgets - and I’m a real gadget man."
An automation engineer for an oil company, developing solutions to help the company reduce its carbon footprint, Mike added: “I work in reducing how much fuel we are using, so having won an electric car is quite fitting. The way I see it is we’ll all be driving around in electric cars soon enough, so it’s good to get one and get used to it - but this will be in style.”
Having first owned an off road motorbike at the age of seven, Mike has been hooked on all things motoring and motorsport ever since, going to watch the British Grand Prix at Silverstone on numerous occasions with his dad Allan.
He added: “The first thing I’ll do when I get the Tesla is drive it down to my parents in Edinburgh. There’s no way I’d have been able to take the i3s as the charge wouldn’t last the journey, but the new Tesla will.”
BOTB, is a dream car and lifestyle competition company which has high-profile stands at airports.
