WOW thanks for the great feedback on the i3! I am on Oahu and my commute is about 20 to 25 miles each way. My fear is that over time that 80 miles might cut it close to the 50 I need without any other detours/stops. 

A brand new Bolt cheaper than a used I3 ? I don’t think so.

Have you seen how cheap 3-5 years old I3s without the range extender get ?

I have one - and it’s a fabulous car. We live in the bay area and use it as a runabout. The use of space is from another dimension - they really make the interior big and functional, and even the rear seats are pretty good, though visibility is limited due to the doors. Range is consistently 80 miles on electric only.…

A deluge of late model cars and trucks will appear mid year and into the fall. New sales go down across the board. 

Mazda will debut an electric CUV-styled hatchback with a rotary range extender. The electric range will be disappointing, and the fuel efficiency while in range extender mode will be terrible.  

David Tracy will buy another rusted out Jeep.

Still no one will want to buy a Cadillac that isn’t an Escalade, and even that will be pressured by Lincoln.

I think there is gonna be a new golden age of motorsports with the arrival of electric cars. As much as I hate to hear the sound of engines slowly fade away, electric racing is gonna be much simpler to operate, fix, maintain, etc, etc that should make racing much more affordable than traditional racecars. We can…

David Tracy will have a moment of self awareness and sell all of his rusting deathtraps. He’ll keep the one decent XJ he has (He has one right? Is the manual one decent?) and focus on restoring his Mustang / tool shelf.

Lotus makes an SUV, but because they’re Lotus, it only weighs 3,000 lbs, has a manual transmission standard, and isn’t great at SUV things. They will sell roughly seven of them.

I predict:

-Economic bubble will pop (already seems to be bursting)

Bearing in mind the direction 2018 took, here is my car-related prediction for 2019:

Subaru will not murder their performance arm. The WRX-line will last for the 2020 and 2021 model year, at which point the hybrid or maybe electric  WRX/STi will launch, showing people exactly how much fun unrestrained torque can be. The delay is because that platform will be the base of the line-wide electric or…

The “floating roof” trend will be taken to the next level:

I predict attempts at massive federal interference on the industry from the trump administration. In what was once a very unrepublican and anti-freemarket maneuver, trump will attempt to pick winners and losers of the industry himself and the winners will never be makers of domesticially manufactured vehicles.

- More car production will move to China

Tesla haters will hate.

Gas will continue being cheap, people will continue to buy stupidly huge vehicles & ignoring public transportation.

Nissan Versa guy figures out a way to drive even slower in the left lane.