So, if the battery pack is 12 kW, let’s assume they let us access 70% of that, we’re looking at 8.4 kW of range.  At a very efficient 4 miles per kW, you might get 34 miles out of it....  If we use a more reasonable 3 miles per kW, it’s more like 25 miles.  It’s still a good thing, but nothing special.

New question: “What’s worse: Caliber or Journey?”

...or for YEARS.  Like until the jacket wears out.  “I’m a SKIER!!!!”

For $3k, I would imagine many buyers will leave it there....ha!

What does that giant box do to the mileage?  Guessing it defeats the purpose of a highly efficient turbo-4, no?  I want to like this car, but wow...$70k is a lot of cheddar.  But I guess it’s in the ballpark of reality.

Those headlight graphics look like the garbage on the Nissan Maxima. Oof.

These are such great sleepers and the boost is old school.  Nothing nothing nothing and then WHAM!  All the boost!  And they love tuning.

Doesn’t this overlook the main point of welding, which is to bring together two pieces of similar material and create a fixed connection that is actually stronger than either of the pieces alone?  I mean, 50 ksi steel is completely different in strength and behavior to glass.  There are reasons why semi-flexible…

Actually kind of surprised to see a Precision Turbo in there.  I would’ve expected it to be an in-house, 3-d printed titanium masterpiece of Perfektionegging.

Dude those gray wheel arches are BAD.

How is it that the Countach graced my bedroom wall for nearly a decade, but I couldn’t literally give less of a shit about this?  Or almost any other supercar/hypercar these days?  Somehow it’s just not interesting anymore.

So how does the Quad 4 compare to the SR20, Honda B-series, and perhaps Toyota/BMW/Ford motors of this vintage?  It seems to me that the B-series has had a far greater impact since the time of their release, no?  This paints the Quad 4 as a pretty impactful engine, but my recollection having lived through that era is…

Does this include Polestar?

You *can* use the fast charging network that Nissan/BMW/VW have built, though.

Nobody talks about insurance, but anecdotally I’ve heard that Tesla insurance is HEFTY.  Likely due to the large costs involved, and the time in a loaner/rental car.

That seems to support my theory. I look at it similar to how a classic car that is never driven eventually needs repairs simply because it’s just sitting around. For people who obsessively only run Volts on electric and almost never use the engine, or the various HVAC items, I think it can cause these parts to wear…

I’m suspicious that some folks that stretch so far between gas engine use may be causing themselves some of their own problems with HVAC and other related minor issues.  I’ve had zero issues with my 2013 Volt.  70k miles on it.  Averaging 80 mpg lifetime.  Plug in every night.

The NISMO Juke is the right answer.

The botched the scale of the wheels from Concept to Prototype...it’s like they handed it to Toyota for a design review.  The Concept’s wheel size gives the car presence.  It’s missing here and can’t be fixed with just a new pair of shoes - the whole fender is too small.

Umm...these are cool, yes, but I just can’t imagine spending that kind of money and just ending up with a basic, 122k mile Civic Si.  It’s in very good shape, but it’s not mint, and it has miles on it too.  I mean, for $6000 maybe it’s interesting.  Maybe I just don’t put this on a pedestal...