if you used a Torque App or something before replacing the battery, could you tell me what the delta voltage was between the max and min cells?

I got a 153,800 mile ‘07 that spent most of its life in Manchester and spent another 7 years in an even colder Dublin. The original battery when idle is averaging 0.1V delta…

Right on, man.

Dunno if you are on priuschat and are familiar, but regardless - there is little to no way to trick the computers in allowing an increase of ICE power. One dude messed around with the Inverter and installed a bypass which improved 0-60 times to 8 seconds before blowing a safety fuse.

I think that’s one…

Maybe and I hope that’s just a US thing, but the Echo *ahem* Yaris is a damn good workhorse. Same thing goes for the Micra. Without the very early, tend setting LRR tyres, the Gen I Prius, like the Yaris, was joyfully nimble for its lack of forward movement.

It’s an excellent student car - if they’re not needlessly obsessed about not being seen in a Prius.
It’s an excellent road trip car - if you stretch often enough.

I got a UK-imported ‘07 with +150,000 miles and while Ireland isn’t exactly touring country like the US, going from east to west can take a good part of 5…

If you were to imagine a hybrid car that had both an engine and two motors. Does it have one electric machine and two gas machines, or one gas and two electric?

Awesome, but maybe we should also mention that this may just be a reference to the 0-60 time of a P100D Model S.

In the EU they offer a 6 speed 1.2l and 2.0l. Most of them sold here are the 1.8l hybrid system from the Prius.

Never mind the brats in the back seat! This would instill the fear of an ungodly and uncertain sense of parking or merging blind folded.

It’s super weird that you guys don’t get the Hybrid version of the C-HR. It’s the best selling version in Europe. The things are all over Dublin, others are of a 1.2l turbo variant - which will never see the light of day in the US.

Maybe you guys didn’t have enough years with TDIs, but I’d guarantee you that the TDIs are POS.

If they were built to last more than a long-term lease, then they wouldn’t be as cheap, nor as light or as fast. It’s baffling to hear how a GTI can be less costly and less reliable than a 2.0l TDI lol. They’re designed for…

Oh give over yourself.

Not a care given to the substance of what makes a car interesting.

It’s hard to love it when the system relies on the usual starter motor to start the engine. It’s irritating in the circumstance that you don’t even have to drive it! The sound of a diesel turning over, the hesitation it causes at the lights.

I feel like they shouldn’t try of the engine isn’t mated to a motor that’s at…

Which they don’t sell it anymore.

Sounds like you caught a dud (ie, you got one of the few 2013 Leafs that had the old heat-prone battery).

If you’re happy and grand with it, kudos. But while you’re at it, count how many static battery bars are on the right hand side of the instrument cluster. If it reaches 8 bars before 60,000 miles or 5 years, you…

I was taking a jab at the emissions part, but I thought for the most part that’s why so many foreign domestic vehicles are banned from the US until they’re 25 years old.

I never heard of safety standards being a factor for an import of a foreign vehicle. I thought safety was an objective value of a car for consumers to…

I wish the best for you and your 500e. Well given that FCA also somehow managed to best itself in making an unreliable electric car. Inverter failures and safe modes, I hope all the recalls have fixed them now.

Well... I’d be surprised if this were illegal to import due to emissions.

Don’t give in to the dark side.

But if you know anything about the Leaf, and this new one has the same profile, it is big enough. It does give the impressions of driving at SUV height. Compare the Leaf to a Prius and you’ll see how imo, grossly enlarged and bulky it is, it looks like a mix between an SUV and mid-sized…

‘‘It also added a dumb, expensive solar roof gimmick to the car that only realistically adds about 1.5 miles of range on a good day.’’ 

It’s by far a gimmick, aside from powering the AC, the panels are built as maintenance. The kinds of people who are going to buy a Karma are the likes who would fly to a different…

When it began selling the US in late 2012 it was. But most leases were ~$250 per month. In 2013/14 they were discounted to a point where you could get one for $69/month, 0 down for 3 years on the west coast.

After that starting the 2014, Mitsubishi reduced the full MSRP to $23,000 before any tax credits. Unfortunately…