Not sure why you’re so thrilled about this thing. From an environmentalist perspective, which is nominally what these articles are written with, this competes with bicycles, buses, and motorcycles, not cars. With a max speed of 27mph and no crumple zone, this is not taking cars off the streets, it’s replacing…

The Ami, and by extension the Rocks-e, is a VSP - voiture sans permis. It is, essentially, a moped with four wheels. You don’t need a license to operate one.

I don’t know where to begin...

What’s the value proposition over , say, a ChangLi? Sounds very similar but with less luggage space and probably a higher price.

Replying to you because I can’t make my own comment (fuck you Kinja)

The dude states:

Dump truck driver. No surprise as they’re some of the consistently worst drivers I’ve seen in about 900k miles of driving and they have extra training over the other contenders. They should fine people like this into oblivion.

That was pretty much my first thought, though in this case keep the six and swap in the appropriate manual.

Rob, Long time listener - First time caller. Thanks for your always entertaining banter.

I’m Abiding on this one. I’m may be out of my element (to use the parlance of our times) but even if you had to spend $2k on this Volvos gearbox you would then have a mint wagon in good shape. Would that not be worth $5k if you…

Nice Price. I know just how to fix that transmission — with an LS motor and 4L60E.

It’s a simple car and anything that goes wrong can easily be fixed, quite likely by better bits. Same applies to any other car of the era. Calm yourself with the “Lucas!” rhetoric.

I don’t think anybody buys these cars for their mechanical prowess. You buy them for more abstract and aesthetic reasons. Nostalgia, image, the pleasure of having something simple to tinker with...

Seeing’s how a classic Mini in half the condition can easily cost twice as much, this can only go one way.

Our new Toyota hybrid is a zero emissions vehicle...when driven within a narrow set of conditions.

IIRC this episode was filmed on David Tracy’s property.  They didn’t have to do any setup. 

I would like to suggest that the people responsible for describing this thing as “ a zero emission vehicle” be encouraged to sit in a well sealed room containing a rolling road upon which an example is driven the equivalent of 300 miles.

I’m always very honest with how much I spend on my projects. I always do a cost roll-up, and in all of my posts, I link back to articles showing all the parts and sweat I had to put into getting the vehicles into the shape they’re in.

Good take. Worth noting as well that the TR8 was rated at a pitiful 133-148hp depending on market and really wasn’t much more powerful than this is now. I’d be curious what the actual power output is on this one given the intake-side upgrades you noticed.

The fact that those shock towers don’t have rust, or the lower sill trim or arches, makes this a NP for me. Been looking for a hard top 7 to replace the one I have, and this one is all sorted out.

While the Court was right to rule as it did, the only thing worth celebrating is the fact that he did, in fact, serve two years in prison up to and beyond his first parole hearing, and nothing he can do will regain those two years for him.  Don’t be surprised if he follows this up with a 42 USC Section 1983 suit…