I don’t hate the Aztek, but I do avoid Regular Car Reviews as much as possible. It seems like Mr. Regular is the poison dwarf of car reviewers, who hates all cars and the people who drive them. If he’s not ridiculing whatever curiously specific demographic that he imagines owning a particular vehicle, then he’s…

Preston Tucker? The only problem with that comparison is that the co-founder and original CEO of Tesla Motors, Martin Eberhard, was forced out of his own company by some dot-com billionaire named “Musk”.  So much for the little guy changing the world with his better idea, huh?

Compared to the Model S, the Mission E looked incredible. As it gets closer to production and we get glimpses of something like the actual production Taycan, all the excitement has drained away.

Now if only Jaguar wasn’t pandering to the crossover craze… It’s a fad that will pass soon enough, and it’s not the efficient way to design an electric car.

Why, Mazda?  Why do you keep dragging your heels on electric cars?  Come on, just build the electric Miata already!

…once you normalize out the TM3 weirdness…

ELR failed because it was just a re-skinned Volt with the same powertrain. A slow Cadillac is a sad thing, especially at that price point. But it wasn’t like a gas car where you can just put in a bigger engine. To hot rod it, the power train would have required some substantial re-engineering, and that would have cost…

quote: “I suspect that range anxiety will go away when two things happen: Charging stations become as prevalent as gas stations and batteries take on the ability to charge just as quickly as it is takes to pump some gas.”

They said he was going to be the next Steve Jobs. Now he’s looking more like the next Howard Hughes.

I have significant doubts about the aerodynamics and the energy efficiency of this vehicle.

Regarding color choices... For my next car (likely to be a Tesla), I’m thinking just buy the basic black, even though it’s my least favorite car color of all time, and then have it vinyl-wrapped whatever color I actually want.

I’m still hoping someday Mazda will wake up and make an electric Miata. So far they seem dead set against BEVs, though. Maybe some other car maker will step forward and produce it. The original Miata was basically a re-engineered Lotus Elan, after all. Nobody has a monopoly on the concept.