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Originally Posted by Robbie
Jesus.
If they would only make a fucking cheap ass barebones electric car without a bunch of "frills" and sell it for a couple of grand, they'd move them like hotcakes and change everything. Then they could introduce the high priced "fancy" models, and those would sell too.
Obviously, they aren't in any hurry to anger their oil bosses.
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Fuck yeah, give me a stripped out Honda CRX sized electric car that makes 300lb/ft of torque at 1rpm all the way to 12,000 rpm. I dont need or want a radio, air conditioning, or heated electric seats. Infact, I only want two seats. No back seats, please.
Seriously, if they'd get rid of all these stupid ass frills and fancy features, gas mileage would go up because the cars wouldn't weigh as much as tanks. The same goes for the Volt, it would travel a longer distance on one charge if it wasn't such a fat bastard.
A guy I know drives a Mitsubishi GTO (sold in NA as the 3000GT and the Dodge Stealth). One of the front seats weighs 100 pounds because of all the fancy electronic shit, heaters and coolers they put in it. What's the goddam point? The other seat weighs the same.
By comparison, the drivers seat in my car weighs about 12 pounds, because it's a carbon fiber bucket. It is more comfy than the fancy "comfy" seats in his Mitsu GTO. What I am saying is that cars could be getting insanely good fuel economy, if modern car buyers were not such a big group of dumbasses.