“an American Mustang car”

Not quite! The sedan/saloon is the exact same Fusion sedan we get here. That hatch is a separate version (i.e. the 5-door), just like the wagon we also don’t get.

Building on your point, I’d predict that once almost 100% of commuter/city cars, delivery vehicles, buses, etc. go electric, we’ll by-and-large cease to have a gasoline problem.

V-class or Vito, yo. The Vitz is the Toyota Yaris in Japan!

Thanks – I’m a plate buff, what can I say hehe

Nice! It’s pretty much the same experience with the Fiat 600 derivative I imported...though in my case, it was already 30-something years old by then. Still, the looks I’ve gotten and stories people have shared just wouldn’t happen with any exotic.

I gotta ask, why did they need to rewire the turn signals?

Ontario, I’m not surprised – nothing that awesome makes it to BC (even though the dealer group that owns Cambridge Hyundai has stores here)...

Just checked the figures, and it isn’t even that much, you’re right. The trouble I have with Tesla, though, is that their outlook isn’t built on a stable enough foundation for me to ‘stamp’ them a success.

What if we applied this concept to car dealerships? Think about how different brands try to present themselves as rugged, luxurious or “dynamic.” Think about all the marketing they do to appeal to a certain kind of customer. Why not open a store that lures in that customer, just as Whole Foods wants to open hipster…

Done – two dealers (BMW and GM) local to me have had Starbucks-es in their showroom for a while!

With cars like the Volt or the Leaf, though, I see massive compromises made to reach a particular price point, which make it hard to commit to any of them. For example, the Volt still relies (in one way or another) on a gas engine, the Leaf is ugly and doesn’t have huge range, and so on...

Dude, zoom out for a second. Electric cars have only recently started making sense. Any new entrant in the market that can do what Tesla hasn’t (like give their SUV folding seats and a roof rack, or overall value) without killing the benefits that Teslas offer will hit a massive home run.

True, there’s still lots of cap ex in their future, given the ambitious plans they have. Though a huge part of their income is sales of emissions credits, which while being a good strategy, isn’t sustainable in the long-term. Makes the outlook really risky, at least for now.

The Audi would have those advantages, though. They’ve announced their electric cars should charge faster than Teslas do – and given that they’ve just about delivered all their synthetic gasoline production promises, I’d be inclined to believe them.

But you do know that Audi actually has a good chance of making a fat profit with this, right?

Not a very good one, then – if anybody stands to make a fantastic profit doing this, it’s an established firm like Audi...

Fat profits? From a company that’s yet to turn a profit?

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. This is the same method I’ve used, and the same results gained from it.

And yet...