240 miles of range is a milestone. So until VW actually delivers a car that can go further and do so for an also reasonable price they can either put up or shut up.
240 miles of range is a milestone. So until VW actually delivers a car that can go further and do so for an also reasonable price they can either put up or shut up.
The e-Golf is not exactly stellar if gauged for advancement in electric cars: The Ford Focus electric has been out for years and actually goes about 15 miles further than the e-Golf. Meanwhile the Bolt is out soon and will go 240+ miles. It was designed and developed in the space of about 2 years.
Sure about that? According to the story above this thing won’t be out in four more years. And if it had been in development for years then we would surely see something more than a few pie in the sky illustrations...
.... its a rough sketch of a car they don’t even have a prototype of. No seriously- if the above image is what any car will look like then automotive bad tastes in design must be the “new normal”...
The Chevy Bolt looks at least somewhat normal... as in like a small family car versus this and all the other large proponderance of strange alien, insect-like appearance of most other EVs including this thing from VW.( Tesla excluded)
Like it will matter. Trump’s supporters are blind and will vote for this guy no matter how awful he is or whatever awful things he’s said or done
This looks to me like a desperate rush job, maybe to redirect attention away from the whole dieselgate thingy. For starters the concept is too cartoonisly vaporware looking to remotely be real. Secondly four years is forver in EV development terms and especially when GM has the Bolt coming out anyday now and the Model…
That transmission is hilariously simple! I’ve worked on riding mower transmissions that were far more complicated then that thing. Its sort of refreshing to see.
When I was a kid me and my Dad were in an antique engine club. So the earlier engines were often 100's of pounds. As in one of ours was a 1.5 HP Fairbanks Morse which weighed in at over 250 pounds. It was started by grasping the giant flywheels and giving them a spin.
I just saw that you are in the Bay Area. Me too. If so, there are luckily a whole shit-ton of salvage yards all over the East Bay in San Leandro and Hayward for you to get crap for the car.
You’re about the 11-millionth person who blurts out “ Whaddabout GM?” when it comes to VW. Sure- GM fucked up, as you said. But what GM did is not what VW did.
Not sure how I’d be able to drink that much shitty beer. Maybe it really isn’t “Lite” beer.
Ask how many people who remember a car company whom INTENTIONALLY and deliberately engineered a part of their car to fail and do so as designed. When you do, perhaps then we can talk...
Curiously this discussions wasn’t about those other two companies.
Perhaps you should look up “ Strength through joy”.
Yeah except they haven’t. If it were then every other person I’ve known or know who owns(ed) a VW product, past or present, wouldn’t still be having the same problems VW’s have always had, and continue to have.
Yeah... whatever. Still won’t make anyone forget what they did and have been paying for over the past year. Besides- since VW seems to not be capable of making the power windows work in their “normal” cars I’m not sure they should be developing an entirely electric car anyway.
This thing is pretty fucking ugly. If this were any other brand the auto press would probably skewer it.
You’re wrong.
There’s already 5 billion responses here but whatever. Does anyone else feel a total sense of doom about the election? I’ve more or less already conceded that Trump is probably going to win. Why? Because it doesn’t seem to fucking matter what he says or does, his supporters just giddly go along with everything, like…