Behold! My wife’s old 2017 Jeep Wrangler in Xtreme Purple. She drove it for three years (we lease). She’s followed it with a 2020 Wrangler in Hella Yella, and now she drives a 2024 Lexus NX350h in Nori Green. Her 2020 Jeep was a better design, and the Lexus is... well... perfect, because Lexus. But we miss this…

88-98 OBS GM pickup. IMO, the last good looking “Truck’s Truck” ever made. I’ve been following the work Deboss Garage up in Canukistan has been doing with Edison to make just such a thing happen. It’s a series-hybrid kit they are working on, but close enough. 

Already ahead of you… hysteria purple metallic C8 Z06. Although everyone keeps saying “it looks dark blue”. Haha.

Some of the handsome Malaise Era cars should be revived. Gaudy and comfortable, and now faster and reliable!

Left field take; Mid 80's Chrysler New Yorker Fifth Avenue! 

More cars need to be offered in purple. 

Gen X checking in.

AMC Pacer. A car ahead of its time.

Classic Mini because no one wants to drive more than 150 miles at a time in that thing anyways. You get an upgraded powertrain and reliability all to boot

A 1964-66 ‘ish Dodge Dart Convertible. It doesn’t need to be fast, it doesn’t need to go from the most northeastern point of Maine to the most southwestern part of California every year, it just needs to be a nice back-roads cruiser during the summer.

Fiat x19 or Toyota MR2

Not a specific car, but if there was a modular, cheap way to add EV to 70's /80's econoboxes I’d bite. (I’m GenX...) You could have a small fun hobby car, and bypass all the pre-ODB headaches and not-quite-there flakey electronics and emission controls. I’m thinking very old Civics, early GTIs, and parts un-obtanium…

There was a Datsun 521 glider for sale down the road from me last year, but by the time I got up the gumption to LEAF-swap it, someone else had snapped it up. (Picture stolen from formulaimports.com)

The big land yachts are perfect EV swap candidates.

How about a Cord 812?

Hear me out...

Pretty sure this is the most played out answer by now but I don’t care. I’m a fool for wedges.

Now I normally don’t like EV swapping sports cars because it’ll just turn it into every other EV and not even be special anymore. But with that said, I think Mitsubishi could give the 1991 3000GT VR-4 another shot, particularly because it was a car that show cased technology more than being a track monster. EV…

Delorean DMC12. Super cool car visually, but the mechanical aspects were terrible. You’d get a better performing and more reliable car. Plus, these things are mostly only driven around town or to Cars and Coffee anyways, so you don’t need to worry about range much.

I think something big, elegant, old, and slightly sinister would really benefit from an EV conversion.