Anyone know what the rollover protection is like in this car? I’m back and forth between it, a JCW Mini S and a couple of other options but my biggest concerns about convertibles have to do with two things that are rare as hell but still make me worry: Rollover survivability, and lightning safety (meaning, does the…

I travel a good bit for work right now, and I’ve been keeping track as much as I can with whether I see plug-in opportunities at motels. Out of the last 30-ish trips, I’ve seen one motel offering a charging area, and it had two plugs.

I hope you are correct, for the sake of the product. The math doesn’t seem to add up, though, if you get caught in one of Atlanta’s famous traffic jams on the 285 on or around, say, the 5th of September. Perhaps it will still be enough for most people but it seems to me there is somewhat of a romantic glossing-over of…

Unless your comparison involves a bicycle, some steroids and a more than a little meth, your example doesn’t exist. Mine does.

The last time I made a “special trip to get energy” in an ICE car was probably the 12th of never. That’s because the infrastructure is such that I pass dozens of fill-up opportunities on any route I take. Also you overstate, grandly, the ability to obtain energy where they are usually parked. I’m sure there are…

A few things people tend to overlook regarding statements of range:

I used to autocross with/against a guy who piloted one of these things and you can make a helluva track car out of one. In fact it wasn’t until reading this article did I know the engine only put out 75 bhp. Watching that guy go around a track, I would have sworn output was twice that much, and he hadn’t done a lot of…

And by contrast, liberals are always pounding their fists screaming “central government!” whenever they want to impose their version of civil rights/religious restrictions/opinions on birth control (to name just a few issues). Trying to suggest CARB should be allowed to operate independently of a central EPA would…

Most of the comments here are dealing with the guy’s attitude, the pennies, whether the DMV has the right to refuse them, etc.

The problem is not with EVs, it’s with EV infrastructure. EVs only work as primary transportation for two markets: People who never — literally, never — drive more than 150 miles one way from their starting point (meaning a 300-mile round-trip, which is being quite generous), or those who never venture outside a metro…

Right actor, wrong movie: The Goldblum photo you need is the one of him in The Fly when he gets gene-spliced with the transporter pod itself.

Did I say you did? I believe I just said that one guy looks like Grant Imahara, which he does.

Easy decision for me: No stick shift, no buy.

Want to address one thing in your post: “...and they mean that people are insulated even more from their surroundings.”

On the Ferrari 308:

‘Tis merely a flesh wound...

What I hate the most is yet another performance car with a manual trans option is now off the market. But really, do you blame us for not buying this thing? It might have started off at $46k but if you want to put some of the same options on it that come on, say, a Ford Focus RS or a Mini Cooper, you’re going north of…

Long before I got into restoring/restomodding old Jaguars, I was doing the same with old Mitsubishis. Three Starions over the course of 17 years, to be exact.

It’s actually cooler, because if it’s the same as identically-named people in my area, it’s pronounced as “swear engine.” And honestly, who hasn’t been a swear engine from time to time? Especially those of us who owned old Mitsubishis.

Thanks to all. Yours was the comprehensive explanation I was seeking.