I’ve seen the official title to the car that states it was sold to the dealer on 11/15, and the 11/18 date of the audit came from Tesla themselves. It does not appear the dealer is lying about this.

But remember, Tesla sold the car on 11/15. When they did the audit, they were no longer the owners of the car.

I think assigning a single intent to “GM” is misguided. I’m sure there were plenty of EV1 cheerleaders internally. It was a HUGE effort to be dismissed as an exercise to show CARB no-one wants an electric car. They could have thrown some batteries in an S-10 for that.

Meh. I'm 6'6" and fit great in a Volt. 

Being over Six foot myself, I can tell you it’s not your vertical dimension that is the problem...

I'm just under 6', and on the wife's Chevy Sonic there's probably 4-5" or more between the tip of my head and the roof of the car. 

Pretty easy to for someone your size to get in a Fit. All you have to do is kneel.

How much over 6’ are you all? Because I’m just under and I found the first generation Fit plenty roomy in all locations. Not my first choice for a five person road trip, but for day-to-day driving? Would have been fine.

The EV1 was never a production car and was never designed for production. GM built a small batch of engineering prototypes and leased them. I understand why the people who had them wanted to keep the cars, but GM really couldn’t sell them as they didn’t have many spare parts.

GM is literally the poster child for corporate inertia and design by committee so yes, they only succeed on volume, not quality and will always poorly execute the least best plan. They have occasional glimpses of maybe not genius but at least strong competence but generally these are fucked over by penny pinching and…

Yeah, ‘compact’ crossovers the same size as mid size SUVs from 15 years ago. And mid size is now the equivalent of full size SUVs (with three rows) of yesteryear. The only truly impressive thing is the Excursion still holds the record for length after all these years (although the 2020 Yukon/Suburban XL is within an…

My god...how far we've fallen.

We’re not looking at you but the majority. When you’re in traffic and look around, every single SUV has a driver around 5 something and one driver, in a warm weather climate and nothing in the back seat.

If it was released today it would be known as just a kind of ugly crossover. 

Also, the 4 top selling SUVs in the US are the... RAV4, CRV, Rogue and Equinox.

And yet you seemed to fit very comfortably in a 2-D pane of glass with a couple other people, Zod. Get over it.

Not really, Instagram by default formats everything into a 1:1 format. It probably was originally filmed vertically. :P

I assumed they pulled the video from the cars, but apparently this guy was so oblivious an idiot that he posted it online.