Gas mileage?

Torsion bea...I mean beam in the rear? What are we, FiST?

28mpg at best sounds pretty terrible.

I’m from the West Coast and most people from CA to NV/AZ will yield on interstates. On the I-95 up and down NY through VA? Forget it. It’s especially bad in MD where both the I-95 and I-695 are filled with drivers who feel the need for a parking lot cruise on the left lane, and then you’d see many people make…

Exactly. I had a Gen 1 Volt lease and by the time the lease was up I could pick up a similar off-lease car for 3-4 grand less than the residual. I called and tried to negotiate, and they said no. Naturally I got a GTI instead thanks to Tom.

Base AWD T3 should be available by end of the year, no?

I had both a gen 1 Volt and Spark EV so your dealership experience is exactly like mine. Dealerships don’t like EVs, even the service advisor said to me once that he’ll see me probably just once in three years, I actually saw him twice: once for a recall or update and once for oil change on the Volt.

Exactly. When I was laid off with a previous company, the company president said “we’re eliminating your position”, and a day later someone else took the same *exact* job with a different title.

Byte me. The name is fine.

This would be the perfect car for a new dad: mom would sit in the comfort of the massaging back seat taking care of the new little one while dad enjoys the AWD V8.

Maybe we’re all looking at this from the wrong angle. What if the compressed air was used to somehow modulate/change the aerodynamics at speed to reduce drag / improve down-force? I remember something akin to this in F1 a while back, but was later banned.

Even though only a fraction of nickel production goes toward batters

It makes me wonder how much difference tires would make? I had a Gen 1 Volt, had a Spark EV, and currently own a GTI. I can safely say that the tires themselves make a world of difference in how the car handles. For both the Volt & Spark EV I changed tires to Michelin’s Primacy LRRs and they were light years better…

Exactly, a hundred years ago people were getting married when they’re 15~16 y/o. In even earlier times when the average life expectancy was 30 to 40 years, getting married at 15 was the normal thing to do.

I take vitamin B complex and it *seems* to help with my energy level.

Former 2008 335xi owner here: once the warranty runs out is when you DON’T want to own a BMW. I had the pleasurable pain of experiencing that, and I shall not do so ever again.

Why do you think the GOP has been waging war on public education for the past few decades?

Sold out? Don’t see that price anymore.

Sold out? Don’t see that price anymore.

Yes, and an excellent piece of hardware. The 9mm Mod2 subcompact shoots very well.

Isn’t this essentially what Hennessy did with their Venom?