You're doing it wrong if your electricity costs are $2250 for 3 years. If you have time of use rates at your place, at that mileage per year you shouldn't be more than $900 for the 3 years. Also don't forget your $2500 rebate check from the state of california. Your option #2 looks closer to around $7000 for 3…

Wing windows. A/C crapped out and it's getting hot. Rolling the entire window down at highway speeds wreaks havoc. Wing windows were just the thing for cooling the car on the highway. I really do miss them.

Dude, should have got the 500e (if available in your state). I was this close to Abarth, but I realized that the electric Fiat is 76% of the fun of the Abarth (88% in around town driving) while being substantially cheaper total cost to own and tickling the inner environmentalist. Bonus: not having those awful…

I'd have to say the time my truck caught fire and started a 1500 acre wildfire.

Traded in my Focus ST on a 500e last month for mostly the same reasons. (Thanks to the Jalopnik community for keeping the resale on that high enough for that to be practical.) So, so much cheaper to drive and it's nearly as much fun. I miss the manual, but I don't miss sitting in stop-and-go with a manual, and the HOV…

NEITHER!!!! I test drove both, and had settled on Abarth > FiST, with the following reasoning:

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