Story time!

Torch going through Changlis like Chargers on the Dukes of Hazzard. 

You should see how they drive in China. It’s plenty exciting.

Yet to be answered is if the suspension completely broke on the landing.

Torch doing insane shit in this totted up golf cart are the only thing keeping me sane. Stay safe everyone.

Regrettably, the Changli was swept away in a slightly smaller than average downpour and never seen again.

Still the prettiest Chevette ever made. And I’m not even mad about that.

Genuine excitement, great content.

If you park it on the sidewalk at the grocery store and leave the hood slightly ajar, this thing will eventually pay for itself.

Nice.

To answer this question you just have to go to countries which actually do have very few regulatory requirements. Take India, which does have emissions rules (which killed the Maruti 800 in 2010) but otherwise is pretty wide open in terms of what they let manufacturers do.

IIRC, the Nissan Tsuru was like $6900 when it was discontinued in Mexico a couple of years ago. I’d say that’s about as cheap as you could get for something that met the bare minimum definition of a car that could be driven on the highway, if you stripped out all the mandated equipment save for seatbelts.

Ba dum tsss

Torch is like a kid opening presents on Christmas morning. This is better than watching David risk tetanus while wrenching on one of his lawn art wrecks.

I’d define “Decent” is something you could plausibly daily drive and travel at modern freeway speeds. Like equivalent to an early 90s econobox in capabilities.

Elio was run by muppets who barely had a chance of making a car at any price. And who said anything about an American company? Imagine if Chang Li quintupled its budget for a car and were allowed to sell it here.

It makes you wonder how cheap cars could be sold for here if there were no regulatory requirements at all. I bet someone could do a pretty decent $5,000 car. 

Hell, he could attach a shopping cart to the front and drive it through the aisles at the grocery store. 

How long before you come out of a store to find a petulant child sitting in it and a harrassed parent trying to find where to put the coins in?

I love that there’s a sign on the packaging material that reads, “Jason Torchinsky.” Like, who else could possibly be the intended recipient of this thing?