There is just something heartwarming about seeing a dirt cheap little car with sincere performance aspirations. Even if it doesn't really hit the mark necessary to excite everyone, I feel reluctant to discourage the attempt by saying anything negative.

I deeply appreciate the fact that you don't hate these and I strongly support more aesthetically varied cars, but I'm just not ready to say the new Smarts are actually optimistic in their design. If you don't mind my asking, why do you like the new ones so much?

Tesla did not live up to all of their promises of charge stations practically everywhere + Neil DeGrasse Tyson for everyone.

I continuously hope for a Chinese car that looks unique, that might be the start of a more fearless Chinese design but so far things like the Geely BL are the bulk of it. That's why I really hate the Beauty Leopard and pretty much everything BYD (Build Your Dream) has ever done. They might not have amazing engines,…

Yeah, but it has a wheezy, Chinese-built Toyota designed 1.3 liter engine to compensate.

If it did that I would simply pack my things and move to Australia. Or at least dream about it and spend some hours looking up jobs I'll never apply to there.

Massive fan of electric conversions, planning and saving for my own at the moment. You can have a transmission, but it is my understanding that it would be difficult/possibly unreasonable to actually expect to get an overall benefit from it. Here is a very nice Reddit question to engineers on transmissions that…

I'll have to do the math and see if that adds up to a good idea for me. I've wanted to do work on a Lincoln Mark IV, but that engine bay frightens me.

Could that same swap be done on a Lincoln Continental Mark?

This thing needs an engine swap, pronto, I'm not sure if it has enough to even worry about torsional rigidity. After that, however, it is awfully tempting to hear that this was a professional convertible conversion, even if that is still slightly scary.

It would be really grand if we Americans could get something like this, small and much cheaper than normal. It would be popular, mark my words. Especially if it didn't happen to be a vapormobile.

That's basically one giant dongle. More fake chrome than actual metal , I wonder what it would look like if they made an absolutely zero-frills version of the same vehicle.

It somehow manages to make even well bred sportscars look like cheap knock offs.

I can understand if you think that they are largely yellow, but I'm talking about business strength in an industry where credibility used to be cheap and the fact that this has changed.

The New York Times, and many other news sources today, are such respected institutions that it's hard to imagine them getting hurt at all. Watching the massacre of media outlet after media outlet, with even giants like Fox and CNN churning out more and more clickbait while never managing to get to the top of Reddit,…

It's pretty ugly and doesn't actually seem that advanced in comparison to it's competition. If it's anything like the i3, prepare to be utterly underwhelmed.

I love it! Seinfeld really comes across well. I have to wonder if the guy wasn't, for some reason, willing to spend the money on that vehicle to be able to prompt a discussion with him for something. The rest of these emails leads me to believe it might be a thing.

It's always great to see someone really working with simplicity. Somehow car brands forget that people tend to go crazy for them when they putting whopping psychopaths of engines in their cheapest available cars.

It's nice to know that Ford was making something that delightfully insane, even if they didn't send it to the States.

It may not have been able to beat it on a track, but I love this one. It was an attempt to return to simplicity, and thus, automotive bliss. If only they kept on the one true path of a four banger with a turbo.