The article makes it pretty clear that GM’s development costs could have been covered with modest volume. Seems the develpment costs were in the range of $352 Million.

In conventional physics, yes. Like say, a block of wood on a desk with a mass on it.

Those are super cool cars! Jealous!

You gotta tell us, what cars did you buy in 1965 and 1968??

Uh... no, mass does not add to the ability to accelerate. The opposite actually...

You have to be a sociopath to build a company. People want to be entrepreneurs because they see techcrunch kids create an app, make it rich, date a model and become a tech frat boy.

Is it dumb? Yes!

This looks fine.

A circle is the most efficient shape for volume to perimeter ratio. The honeycomb is regarded as being the most efficient at packaging space.

My friend that worked at Tesla in the early days had one of these — and loved it. The range was sufficient, the car was nice, and he even tracked it a few times. Drove it to commute between Santa Cruz and Fremont / Palo Alto.

Shares a platform w/ an ICE vehicle, sounds like a compromise.

4th Gear:

Even Raleway, a free Google Font, would have been a better choice as it’s basically Gotham, but with a neat crossed-V design for the W that would have stood out.

I’ll never forget sitting in Alex Roy’s M5

Jalopnik hates CUVs and loves manual brown diesel wagons.

Yeah, I second Schnac, a “Fuck off” is warranted.

Slideshow? Abort.

Hey Eric *Checks Phone* it’s less than a few hours since you published and your story is already outdated by $100 Billion.

This story aged like Milk. Actually, Milk is still good a few hours later.

Jalopnik has been spreading misinformation for years — then says “But how can we expect the public to be educated?”