The funny thing is, the new Nissan Leaf ticks every one of his requirements:

Have you actually driven a Model 3? I had the same opinion as you until I actually drove one for a weekend and got used to the screen within an hour or two. It’s surprising how quick muscle memory for where common controls are on the screen kicked in.

*Pushes up glasses*

“Fancy things are silly and just show other people you’re fancy. Super fancy things are dumb. If you have fancy things, you must be small and insecure.”

To be honest, I’ve never come across a smug Porsche owner. Might just be a skewed sample size, but the only 911s I’ve driven were offered to me by eager owners who love their cars and want to share them with others.

Not sure what it is with USPS people and the complete inability to drive in snow, but I remember trying to help one get out of my parents neighborhood in an ice storm.

I don’t understand why so many commenters seem to have completely missed that this is a one-off test car for exploring feasibility. They aren’t suddenly ditching every car they have and replacing it with a Tesla, they’re taking one car and doing a study. Maybe in the end it doesn’t make sense financially and/or…

But what about those of us in Subarus who also install snow tires?

...and he’ll use up the rest of his budget keeping it running...

BMW i8: Looks like a spaceship, sounds great (sure it’s fake, but sound is sound), and won’t be miserable to drive in traffic.

You don’t know anything about manufacturers do you.

No, the article says “both engines are paired with General Motors’ eight-speed automatic transmission and a four-by-four transfer case”, not that they’re exactly the same. They could still have different final drive ratios.

ALL RISE FOR THE HONORABLE JUDGE JAILBIRD!!!! (Bird... Bird... Bird...)

You should drive a Leaf sometime. They’re a lot quicker than you think. 

BS. Insurance companies aren’t stupid, and know full well what 2+2 sports coupes are. You’re aren’t fooling them with a tiny backseat.

Yes, the Elise is ALMOST the perfect answer, but I know one of the biggest complaints against the Elise is poor AC. You might be able to get around that a bit by driving with the roof off, but that doesn’t help with Florida humidity...

No, but Rivian and Bollinger at least had real driveable prototypes. Bollinger has kept posting various updates and videos of them thrashing the prototype offroad, and how far along their production version design is.

Of course, and Jalopnik staff are well aware of this as well, so they should have added a note about that.

350 mile range and you think it will be $40-$50k?

Can’t tell if sarcasm or not, but Volvo isn’t exactly the paragon of reliability these days...