Coalinga is also where you’re guaranteed never to get a speeding ticket on I-5, as no CHP officer is going to willingly camp out in an area that smells heavily of shit.

I was looking at Edmund’s EV range test: https://www.edmunds.com/car-news/electric-car-range-and-consumption-epa-vs-edmunds.html

Yeah, but if it can get down to the $45K range I think they’re in business. The current Polestar 2 with the Performance pack is around $65K I think. The TM3 SR+ is about $20K cheaper than the TM3 Performance, so if Polestar follows the same pattern $45K pre-credits should be doable.

Are we talking about marketing range, or real world range? Tesla wins on marketing range hands down, but in the real world their cars constantly falls short of their EPA numbers by a considerable margin, whereas almost every other automaker matches or beats their EPA numbers. If the single-motor Polestar 2 hits its…

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Presumably it’ll return in 2022 for the 11th generation.

Past tense sold. Fit got the axe in the US.

One of my Hondas is a very smooth VTEC V4

Totally agreed, I had a 2007 3.0si that I was able to use as a sole commuter and grocery getter for a few years. The trunk was surprisingly large and usable, and the seating position makes parallel parking so easy since there’s not much metal behind you.

Being in California, I see a lot of Taycans. Seems like the owners who would have bought a Model S P100 (of which I still see a lot) are now rolling around in Taycans.

The Fit (Jazz) in Europe usually comes equipped with a 1.2L 88hp engine. By comparison, the 1.5L 130hp engine in the US Fits is a performance monster. Almost 50% more power.

Hondas don’t sell well in Europe period, so it shouldn’t be a shock that a niche, relatively low-volume BEV with a Honda badge is going to sell poorly.

It’s not like they’re averaging the fuel economy of the cars in the pool. It’s a pool in the sense that neither FCA nor Honda is selling enough BEVs, so they need to piggyback off of the excess sales that Tesla has. They’re basically paying Tesla for emissions credits.

I think it has less to do with the range and more to do with the fact that in Europe, Honda doesn’t have much in the way of brand equity. It’s got more of a reputation of building cheap basic cars for old people. The perception of Honda over there is much different than how we perceive Honda in the US.

Actually, in California adding that 7/8ths clause gives the legislature a chance to modify it, even if it requires a 7/8th majority. Unless it’s deemed unconstitutional, by default a ballot measure can only be modified by another ballot measure: https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/initiative-and-refer…

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I’m pretty sure you can’t see a Cena Honda...

As someone who is interested in getting a truck to carry a motorcycle but can’t fit a longbed in the garage, what’s the problem with having the rear tire sit on the tailgate? Is it that you can’t store anything else in the bed for fear of it falling out, or is it more dangerous/unstable to put that kind of weight on…

Yeah, but said claims are called into question when heavier and “less powerful” cars are somehow faster with higher trap speeds. Now, I’m not saying Acura marketers are lying, because Hondata dyno’d the RDX stock at around 225whp which is in line with the 272bhp claim, but in reality I don’t think it can lay claim to…

No I’m talking about the base cars. Check the acceleration numbers; the lower-powered Germans are all faster.