Yup. Because I am correct.

I remember when these things were brand-new. A girl in my high school had one. Needless to say it was the biggest piece of shit. It had a steady stream of non-stop problems the minute it rolled off the lot.

Oh yeah? Like chewing gum wood?

Yes, its a weird car from the vast sea of irish brand cars out there.

We all know that in the end its going to look like a mishmash of a Mercedes/Lexus/Audi thrown together complete with a Bentley looking badge and an interior made out of a mixture of nice leather and cheap econo-car plastics.

Either that or it was King Tut’s bathroom.

Stop comparing this to the Tesla in any way. The i8 has less EV range than the older gen Prius plugin. It also has a gas engine. The two cars are as different from one another as night and day.

Who cares?

Maybe someday they will come close to catching up to Tesla.

I live in the SF Bay Area and it seems like every other car is an EV. I own a Volt that I bought used, but plenty of people bought these when they came out at 37k each. People are also buying overpriced EVs like the BMW i3 in seemingly large quantities around here.

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I remember seeing this a few years ago. INSANE.

When I was a teenager me and a bunch of guys took my friend’s Dad’s pontoon boat out on the lake. We hit a BBQ grill tank that was floating out in the middle. Luckily all it did was put a small dent in one of the pontoons. Could’ve been a pretty nasty outcome.

Uhh... I would not be anywhere close to that thing. I saw a video on some TV show once of a ordinary BBQ grill tank exploding, which was horribly destructive so I can’t even imagine a big house sized one “letting go”.

None of what you mentioned gives free license for a company to cheat our regulations.

So far 46 people have agreed with what I have said. And I shall let that comment stand. All you need to do is prove to me that GM in fact intentionally engineered their ignition switch to fail and you might actually have an argument.

While I wouldn’t buy this as its more than I’d like to spend, this is one of the few luxury vehicles that is totally worth the asking price: Its a luxury land yacht that will absolutely handle offroading just fine and it will last for 20 years without a problem. Very well engineered machines and none of the…

I think you responded to the wrong comment...

I am still curious as to how so many people get confused over this. Its really cut and dry. You and others need to understand the distinction here because there is a major difference in the intent here. In order for your argument to hold water GM would have engineered their switches to fail... as in they would have…

But my point being- GM didn’t purposevly and intentionally engineer that switch to be defective, right? If we were to compare what GM to VW, the ignition switches would have been engineered to fail right away. Instead as it turned out the switches failed once there was a combination of wear to the switch mech and an…