I’m in California, so a bit far for a test drive. :)
I like the car a lot, especially for the price. I got $9k off MSRP, paid about $28k. I’m 6' tall and can sleep comfortably in the car with the back seat folded down.

The good: the aforemetioned long cargo area, the effective AWD (I semi regularly drive through the…

I was a master tech at Saturn in the mid 1990s, and I qualified on and drove the EV1 during factory master tech training at the Spring Hill plant in 1996.

I’m a professional mechanic, and the saying around every shop I’ve owned or managed was “If you have time to do it right the second time, you could’ve done it right the first time”.

As a general rule if it’s practical and makes financial sense I only want to do a job once. If the car is solid and worth more than the…

Thanks for the clarification.
California does have a law - for used cars only: the buyer must be given the opportunity to purchase a two day return option at the time of buying the used car, at extra cost. If the buyer purchases the contract option and decides to exercise that option and return the car, the dealer can…

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…

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