Really, this is an extremely temporary market condition for a volume-produced car. In a year there will be enough widespread availability that the strategy will be laughable.

Yeah, with you there. This is a beautiful little car, and it’s in wonderful shape, but that price is pretty out there.

If you bought before a certain date you’re grandfathered, but if you sell your buyer loses the privilege

Subaru arguably has more expertise in 4wd dynamics than just about anyone, so I’m sure they have some engineering expertise to lend to this partnership.

Passenger-side mirrors weren’t universal until the 80s, if even then.

Dumb as this sounds, I think my favorite part is that with the blanked-off EV grille there’s no weird plastic shield for the sensor array like there is on the ICE model.

The new Hummer’s air suspension actually does allow this.

Not exactly this, but...

Anybody who actually hauls stuff will prefer this to a Tuscon (which it’s based on). The bed has a larger footprint than the Tuscon’s cargo compartment and is considerably easier to load/unload without worrying about bashing your head on the hatch.

Why doesn’t a roof rack make sense?

This is probably my new favorite “aspirational” EV. To my eye it looks way nicer than a Model S with much nicer interior.

I like where you’re going, but I suspect the changes they’d have to make would really turn this into a completely different car.

I’m right with you, but such city cars have never, ever established much of a market in North America. And, too be fair, highway travel is a much larger piece of our driving profile here.

It’s cute. But not “$9,500" cute.

The vast majority of these will likely never see a highway. They’re city cars and China has many more large cities than, say, the US.

We’re not gonna see Citroen, or Peugeot, and maybe that’s just as well.

Prime example of why we’re never gonna see a new wagon again. The TourX was a genuinely good car at a decent price. You can blame GM for “undermarketing” it, maybe, but if a wagon had a chance to find an audience, that one did.

Past that, EVs are rapidly getting better and I think we’re on the verge of having a LOT of very good ones.

I’ve seen quite a few Bronco Sports on the road, so clearly there’s some uptake. Looks like the “full” Bronco is going to be a runaway hit.

If I have to go through the process of installing a charger, then what’s the point of still needing to inject fossil fuels and carry around a gas engine/transmission?