Thing is, where Car2Go works, is works really, really well. We’ve got over 1500 of them in Vancouver. Evo (C2G’s direct competitor) has somewhere around 1500 cars, too. Modo (a round-trip car share co-op) has 750 or so, and Zipcar has something like 200.
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Hint: the seats aren’t leather - they’re vinyl.
Iinterestingly, we have had three of these in a pseudo-rental fleet for about 120,000km. They have been totally reliable. A coil pack here and there, that’s really about it.
You’re looking at this from a sales perspective: sell a customer a car. If the customer had walked onto the sales floor, then yes - I’m not about to poach them and tell them “we should fix your old car!”.
KBB is more or less hopeless on cars >5 years old. There’s just too much variation in condition between individual cars, and the range is too broad to become useful.
Hmm, no, you probably wouldn’t. And if you did, I’d tell you to go pound sand, and to find another tech.
Yes, but only with people who I really trust. And they always reciprocate.
People are vulnerable when they are uncertain, especially when costs could be large and are unknown.
Wow, never even though of that - you raise a GREAT point. Cadillac has a different style to them, and has a lot of appeal to the “I’m 35 years old, successful, and want to buy something stylish” African-American crowd.
Problem is, there are too many really reliable, easy choices to go for, if one wants a rolling recliner. There’s the Lexus LS / ES / RX, the Toyota Avalon, the Mercedes E-class, the Genesis G90. That market is already really well covered with lots of solid choices.
GM: Go ahead and just give up on Cadillac. Nobody wants one, nobody aspires to the brand. You don’t even care about Cadillac, you never really have.
Exactly. People get especially confused when I tell them “I just plug it into a regular wall socket, nothing special”. And when they ask how, “well, it charges at a rate of about 5km/h. My car is parked for about 14 hours a day on most days, so I have about 70km of charge. My commute is 60km or so, so it’s always…
Depends where you live. They're $8k off in BC right now, plus an additional 6k off if you scrap a gasoline car!
The whole interior of the Bolt is terrible, even by Chevy standards... Great car otherwise.
Thats wild. I probably see 20 of these a day... umm, take a Fit and make it taller and a little longer. Super functional little cars, with a truly junk interior.
Cant get one until late Q2 2020 in Vancouver. There’s a massive waiting list. Kona EV is sold out deep into 2020, too...
Meet up with a nearby tow truck, and disconnect the 12v battery / cut the first responder’s loop -> now tracking is dead. Use the tow truck to tow to final destination. Part it out, or get it into a container where it will then be shipped overseas. Sounds a lot more lucrative than most cars, to be honest.
Yes, a 2005. That car was wonderful, but the engine completely ruined it.
Had a Suzuki Swift, which was leaking transmission fluid into the gauge cluster, via the mechanical speedometer cable.
They were nearly mail-order. Tiny little operation, operated by an independent distributor. Not far off from visiting a small used car lot with an Atco trailer used as an office.