Bear in mind that electric motors can develop ludicrous torque relative to their horsepower figure. Take the old Chevy Spark EV for example. It made a relatively normal 140 horsepower, but also 400 lb-ft of torque. And that’s on a tiny subcompact. Is it that surprising Tesla would go all out with their three motors in…

Slow car fast. 1.9 seconds just sounds like a great way to develop medical problems in either a gradual or extremely rapid fashion.

I noticed that too, and it cannot possibly be a coincidence.

The two are not remotely equivalent in my experience. I can personally attest that black people are an obsession of racist whites—as a white guy people are less guarded around me when they talk about this shit. Asians have a more neutral mix of positive and negative stereotypes associated with them in the capital-W…

It’s like the distilled essence of “f*ck aerodynamics.”

Like... Lockheed-Martin?

Another advantage of scrapyard LEAFs—the cell chemistry they use is air-cooled, they call ‘em “lizard cells” because they can handle heat better. No complicated liquid cooling systems to bother with, in other words.

And even that is rapidly becoming less of an advantage over time. Hydrogen cars take longer to refuel than gasoline ones, and electric cars’ charge rates keep on increasing.

It’s not so much the lack of horsepower as the lack of torque that bugs me about this car. I think 200 hp is fine—but 150 lb-ft is a bad joke. My mother’s Volt has 273.

Yes, tell us all about how the deep histories you read inscribed on the bathroom stall of a rest stop in Mississippi.

I’m not surprised. There’s a particular breed of entitled, socially maladjusted white guy that tends to crop up in techy circles. They think being an asshole is “cool” and “subversive.”

You say that like EVs and sports coupes are mutually exclusive concepts. Electric motors are actually great fun to drive, even in an economy car like the Volt, and are dead simple to use. No need to worry about rev ranges or anything like that.

Is it true what Mr. Regular said, that the iA is extremely quiet but feels like it only has 2 torques?

That’s a very good point. If Smarts and Scion iQs can make it, then a pseudo-cabover design like this should fare just fine.

Just put a wood gasifier in it and you’re golden.

I doubt that even the most whisper-quiet, buttery-smooth, low-slung electric drivetrain could save the Hoffmann, though.

Maybe they’ll get someone in the marketing department to make a tweet about it sometime!

These idiots aren’t men, they’re entitled, whiny little boys. Christ, I’m embarrassed to be lumped into the same gender category as these pathetic lumps of inadequacy.

I don’t care that this thing will probably murder me, it looks like it’s from Fallout and I love it!

You are correct that they are not direct competitors, but that only makes matters worse.