"car" magazine's 13-word Phantom review is unsurpassed:

Hey, that's my photo of my 1984 Civic 1500 S, glad you like it! Handsome as hell, 12.5 feet of city car perfection, but it was underpowered (I think 76 hp, no injection) with no midrange torque, and gave little feedback before it understeered off the road. I know the VW GTI was more fun to drive, and no doubt so was…

Nice story, lucky you. Back around 1981, the GTI was a distant Euro dream in North America, and I could only get the Rabbit with the faux-GTI "S" trim. The Rabbit was better than the Fiat Strada that drove Fiat out of USA or the Dodge Omni/Plymouth Horizon twins that Chrysler made from the tired Simca, and a European…

Energy isn't free, so inefficiency matters. Making H2 from electrolysis of water is inefficient, so it's hugely expensive: if you'd need $10,000 in solar panels (or nuclear reactor) to recharge batteries, you'd need ~$25,000+ of them to make H2 to go the same distance. So most H2 actually comes from steam reformation…

I think it's the other way around. Hydrogen is completely impractical while there are a handful of public refueling stations (I think every single H2 car in the USA is in Southern California), but in the long run as oil gets harder to come by, H2 might make sense when and if a network of stations is built. You can…

So the Koenisgesgeggeggsseg's doors are actually completely impractical if you ever parallel park next to curbs that are over 4 inches tall. I've just cancelled my order; thanks for saving me $545,568 !

Your women. I want to buy your women. The little girl, your daughters... sell them to me. Sell me your children!

it's theoretical repeatability

Since it struggled to get the first production cars out in 2008, Tesla has made and sold about 1800 Roadsters. By the time the second generation (Venturi has shown the Fétish for a decade, it's unclear if they ever sold any) of tiny-volume electric European electric sports cars "arrive" from Rimac, Lightning GT,…

Straw man and unsupported ad hominem. The average person interested in electric cars understands far more than the average Jalopnik exactly where their electricity comes from, but that doesn't stop the lecturing.

The batteries aren't disposed of. If they're at say 50% of original capacity they may yet be useful as a stationary backup battery, otherwise they're recycled for the valuable metals, just as lead- acid batteries are recycled.

Corbin Motors went bankrupt in 2003, it's now the Myers Motors NmG. Goldmember loves his.

True, one advantage of this (and the Audi Urban Concept) is you're fully enclosed.

I agree with most of what you wrote. GM could have said "world's first plug-in hybrid", instead their crappy marketers played around with Range-Extended Electric, E-REV, "more than electric", "it's electric-drive only" (then we discovered that, appropriately, the engine can also drive the wheels), etc.

Wasting away in Margaritaville,

You really believe the thoroughly discredited CNW Marketing report about Prius vs. Hummer? Whatever.

When Subaru came out with the Outback models of the Legacy and Impreza 5-doors with slightly higher ground clearance, they got rid of the Impreza name and just called the latter the "Outback Sport" in the USA. I think they were always embarrassed by the Japanese-sounding name and wanted to promote a whole line of…

In the proposed Audi and Mazda hybrid designs, the rotary does take a back seat, revving at some fixed, most efficient speed to recharge or supplement the battery.

@6th , @freelunch ,

Yes please, I'd love to see those pictures. Unlike lead-ACID batteries, neither NiMH nor Li-on is toxic, so it's not illegal to dump them. But 20 lbs of nickel is worth good money, so it's very hard to imagine someone plowing them into landfills now that Toxco and Umicore claim to have set up recycling facilities and…