I assume you need two cars to make that work for you though. My hang up with full electric cars is that if you want to travel any sort of real distance, particularly away from an interstate you're kind of screwed once the battery is dead. So then you just drive your gas powered car, which is fine but kind of goes…

I should have been more specific. I was talking about the starsky and hutch generation ones. Those were the bulk of the 70's ones. The earlier ones are still muscle cars.

The volt is a plug in though isn't it? I'm not totally sure but couldn't an owner use it as a full electric car and charge it at home and mooch off an outlet at work and only use gas when they do real driving?

Not really when you consider how vast and convenient the network of gas stations is in this country. You wouldn't have to match that exactly but its nice that you can drive between any two points in quite a few convoluted routes.

And relatively efficient. Though the speeds the small ones spin at are nuts. A nice long stroke low rpm diesel would be another good option as those are pretty efficient

Doesn't have public high voltage outlets

All GM bashing aside the idea of using a generator to extend range makes way more sense at this stage of the game than trying to build charging stations everywhere. We already have an infrastructure that's set up for cars running on gasoline and it isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

The Eclat is probably not the best example of the point I was making because they aren't common in the US so it makes them "rare". I wouldn't have wanted one new, and they don't really have that interesting of styling in my opinion. I also don't think they have aged well. That's more of what I'm talking about here…

Both those are cool though and have that little boxy shape, something about that works. I mean I like a lot of weird cars too. I'm specifically questioning cars that are universally accepted as not that good and the styling isn't all that interesting.

I don't want to sound like I'm bashing the beetle so I'm not going to get into where I see its lacking as a car, its just an old people's car. What I will say is that most every decent sized town has a VW guy that has 5 or 6 beetles and a few buses on his property so the run of the mill beetles aren't that rare. Then…

haha the Staratos is great, its insane and definitely interesting. Owning a classic or weird car makes sense to me. I just don't see that with something like the Eclat.

I included the beetle because its really common and in all objective categories its pretty terrible *ducks to avoid shoe* but I actually get that one a little because of its cultural significance and some people think it looks cool.

I've never really seen what other people see in cars like that. The worn out 30-40 year old cars that were never that good or lust worthy and have rather un-inspiring looks. I actually feel the same way about the VW beetles, later MGB's, 70's Torinos, MustangII's and other cars like that with the same sort of…

I like how my '66 f100 has 5 things I can do with my feet, its great.

Ah, that could be. I was actually thinking it was just a centrifugal super charger.

D1KBUT even sticks to the letter and digit arrangement of H8GAYS

That's not a turbo... There is no way it would spool that quickly and make that kind of noise unless it was tiny and had bad bearings.

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He had a drag Galaxie? That's pretty sweet. And the one in the picture is a Thunderbolt.

Screw headlights because racecar