I’m also 6'5", and don’t fit in many if not most new cars at this point. I drove a mini several years ago, and it did have plenty of room, more than most larger sedans. I have a chevy Bolt at this point, and have plenty of room in it, although the seats are narrow. I can even sit behind myself in the backseat with…

No joke, the best feature all the extra screens can have is an easy, quick way to turn them off. Before GM adds more screens, they first need to get the software bugs worked out. I’ve had a Bolt for a couple years and like it, but the amount of software bugs and just poor programming from the extra screen to the…

Let's see, 500 kg with a passenger*g*1 m/s of upward movement should be about 5kw of power to move it upwards, and peak power is 8 hp or about 6 kw, so we'll assume this is the limit of uphill travel. Top speed of 48km/h is about 13 m/s, so dividing 1/13 is about a 7 percent grade it could maintain top speed up. For a…

Does it have to be limited to the trunk?

I’ve had a bolt for 2 years, and also still have my old 06 A3, basically a GTI wagon without sport suspension. In comparison, handling feel of the bolt is fine, but not as good as the A3. The drivetrain I think is quite good though, not as involved as the 6MT in the A3, but the instant torque anytime and regen is…

Depends on the year, I’m 6'5" and have an 06 A3 that I fit fine in. Last year I was in the dealership for an airbag recall and sat in a new A6, and didn’t fit at all. Headrest at the highest setting hit me in the shoulders, head pushed into the roof. The Q8 was the only new car I sat in that I actually fit.

I’m not sure how good the data is, but I saw a technical presentation (skeptical of EVs) that listed the CO2/energy required for battery manufacture, that would equate to about 4 tons of CO2 for the 60 kWh battery pack in a Bolt or similar. Total vehicle manufacturing CO2 produced is about double that, or 8 tons. If I…

I think one thing that is left out of the snow tire discussion is the type of snow. I’ve lived in Colorado my entire life, and I think my parents ran snow tires when I was little, but I’ve never bothered despite skiing most weekends in the winter. It seems like for humid, packed, ice types of snow (midwest, east coast)…

I typically remain parked for hours after my car is done “refueling”, am I doing this wrong?

Yep, I’m 6'5" and have a Bolt, and can also sit behind myself fairly comfortably.  I think the only vehicle I’ve been in the last couple years I could say the same thing about was a rental expedition, so that’s pretty good for a car that is not much longer than a mini cooper.

I’ve had a Bolt for over a year, the exterior footprint is small, which is nice to fit in a tiny garage, but the interior has quite a bit of space. I’m 6'5", and can sit fairly comfortably behind myself in the back seat, something that usually only happens in large SUVs and such. I don’t even fit comfortably in the…

Pretty much the entire two weeks of touring around Norway a few years ago was one near miss after another. Most drivers were fine, but there were enough on the 1.5 and narrow 2 lane roads that thought they were some sort of goddamn modern vikings or something, driving like they were on a private closed course, that I…

Make a regulation for headlight height that is normal for cars, but makes taller vehicles look like radioactive insects

Why didn’t they just use their directed energy laser and zap her instead?  Seems a lot easier than a chase.  Maybe all of the lasers are in California right now?

Not every company has figured this out, I recently had a lincoln continental as a rental, and when i returned it almost got locked out. Parked the car, left the key in the center console, got out, went to get my bag out of the passenger seat, but that door was locked. I had all of the windows partly down, since…

It’s not uncommon to see people behind me point at my bumper and start cracking up when I drive the old jeep. I’ve gotten some compliments as well, so must have chosen some good ones.

I have a 96, 5sp 4.0 xj, when it was stock I averaged about 23 mpg, and saw up around 27 mpg a couple of times. This was in college, when it was generally used on climbing/ski trips and tended to be loaded with 4 people + gear. Just have to ride the low end torque, which the stick shift allows.

Several years ago I was on a climbing trip to South Africa with my cousin and several others. I was there for a month, my cousin was there for three months. We had a few cheap rental cars, mostly 2nd gen VW Golfs (still apparently made new down there) and other 2 door hatchbacks. The climbing was well out of town…

The former CEO of the small company I work for was pretty much a straight up psychopath (embezzling, bragging about treating employees poorly, lying, taking credit for others’ work; he even logged into an online meeting once naked, via webcam). He had an older, beat up, barely road worthy Boxster, and even though I…