While that electric motor package will fit in almost anything, the battery pack may be a different story. How many batteries can you jam into an original Mini, a Honda 600 or a Honda Acty?


Also, I wonder how that engine, controller and decent size new battery pack cost would stack up against a small, modern 4 cylinder…

It’s 2 days, available on used cars only, and only applies if you pay extra for that contract option at the time of purchase. The selling dealer can also charge a restocking fee, in addition to the contract fee if the consumer returns the car within the allotted two days. Details here:

“most places”?
Like where? AFAIK there are no state or federal laws allowing that on a new car purchase, although corporate policy may differ, particularly among used car chains.

It’s the double whammy, worst-of-both-worlds of the predictable car payment that you can plan for, plus the unpredictable major failure that you can only plan for so much, depending on how much money you have saved and/or your willingness to go deep(er) into credit card debt.

That’s why I do one or the other with my…

Nope, they are careful, adult owners. Both problems are known issues with those, they just got very unlucky and had both expensive problems back to back and out of warranty.

Where are you at? If you’re close to me, you can drive mine. ‘18 Preferred, S&S, DC1

Yeah, it’s the whole “making several more years of payments after the warranty expires” thing that I won’t do. Case in point: a friend has a 2016 Grand Caravan and the transmission completely shit the bed earlier this year far from home and had to be rebuilt at 81,000 miles. That was $4100.00
And not 2,000 miles later,…

Enterprise gave me an Aveo back in 2008 for the drive from Miami to Key West. Big mistake. The seats were awful, on top of that car being a total shitbox in every way. No power, bad mileage, loud, incredibly cheap feeling inside and out, lots of squeaks, rattles and visible interior wear at less than 12k miles.

Eh, I can’t speak for every land yacht out there but I drove a Concours-level, all original 1970 Deville convertible from DC to Wisconsin and back a few years ago and those seats were quite comfortable for 8 hours/day, 500 miles a day back to back. Both ways. And I drove a 1967 Cadillac convertible coast to coast and…

That D100 on the HiAce though.

So. Much. Want.

NP for an interesting, useful and well priced project, where most of the hardest work is done already.

That said -
I had a 1991 SHO back when i owned my shop and fixed a lot of them for local SHO owners back then. They are interesting cars, but they have a few big designed-in problems, the main one being the tiny,…

I swear to god Musk is the dumbest smart person in the entire country, and he never misses a chance to publicly confirm that.

Speaking from experience - There’s an art to successfully lowballing real estate that isn’t in the OP’s approach though. It’s knowing why that property has sat on the market for so long, whether the cause of that is something you can work with, feeling out what the seller’s situation is, making your offer the right…

“It only runs a couple of minutes” -
Just like ‘82 GTVs did in real life!

A fun thought, but unlikely. More likely is that they built a few water cooled cars out of cheap, damaged KGs and had a few stock aircooled KGs around for less demanding shots. And they used nose damaged versions because they were cheap, since they were gonna cut big holes in the front of all of them and blast all the…

“franchise rules vary substantially from country to country and manufacturer to manufacturer”

So, DeMuro got a lot of things right in that article. What he didn’t mention is that governments like China and Brazil can seriously penalize an automaker along many different channels for just the perception of turning a blind eye to illegal imports that result in massive tax evasion. IMHO I think that that is a much…

So, I did some work as a picture car mechanic. They usually need multiples of cars that are more than just static background fixtures, particularly if they’re hero cars and/or appear in multiple scenes or chases. And all of those cars need to look the same on camera, even if they have wildly different demands in…

Oh hey, since you’re here - thanks for doing the work on OnStar - I feel better knowing that my elderly mom gets hit in her car that someone will check on her and send the ambulance. Which has happened, actually, although I don’t know if Onstar got involved on that one or it was passing motorists that called for help.

Nope. Although I’d be curious to hear about that episode too, from a JLR dealer insider perspective