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The S1 (correct green/tartan interior) owner had even put a little button on top of the gear knob.
Is this the best looking MG ever ?
The design looks very balanced, unfortuately it has nothing at all that tells us it's a MG, except the badge. No nods to marque history, at best, like its predecessors, it is a low-slung convertible with a long bonnet. The rear lights (minus the arrows) come rather close to the Polestar design. And the doors will be too expensive for production.
On the other hand, when the MGB was designed in 1962, as a successor of the aged MGA, it featured many design elements of the expensive GT cars of that time, i.e. Ferrari and Aston Martin. So all in all, it is probably OK to invent the marque anew.
These cars lack style imo. Anyone like these expensive volvo's
Better looking than the Polestar 4 imo and comes with a rear window....
Nice interior except for the tablet,speedo setup.
No rear-window, but a full glass roof. Right.
That should really help with parking (or do these reliably park on their own by now?)
The exterior design does not exactly get my heart racing. And the dashboard is replaced by a tablet attracting greasy fingermarks. Volkswagen, is this how you want to sell cars? No, thank you.
But I do think that those Polestars look infinitely better than those VWs, and I'd have to dig deeper into the market to find one I (theoretically) might be ready to buy. Polestar has "pre-owned" cars on its website, and they cost around 40,000 euros for a Polestar 2 with only about 20K kms on the clock, which may be acceptable if it has to be.
This is entirely without regard to battery capacity/range (my main criterium if I were looking for a BEV), but I don't feel like getting into this until I have to. I probably wrote this before, but I'm not doing the environment a favour dumping our good old diesels on the market for others to use them with a much bigger mileage than we accrue and instead buying a BEV which has its own heavy CO2 footprint just for having been manufactured. It will probably take beyond my reasonably remaining life expectancy to get that even.
Edit/PS: And I'm certainly not going to buy a car from that psychopath Elon Musk, even if the alternative is Chinese.
I agree entirely.
I do quite like the Fiat 500e, at the moment the only electric car that actually looks like a car instead of a space vehicle. Imo that is of course.
I heard Lancia will come back and it will become Stellantis' EV brand. Given my love for anything Lancia, I wonder what they will come up with.
Lancia Pu+Ra HPE:
I do see some interesting Stratos lines in the design, though!
I totally get where you are coming from.
As a broader point, I generally struggle with finding the right point to get rid of something less efficient or less sustainable for a better alternative. For example in many consumer items I am currently in the process of moving from plastic things I accrued in my early-twenties to more "built-for-life" variants out of more durable and/or sustainable materials (razors, coffee makers, suitcases, that kind of stuff). But what's the point in throwing away a perfectly fine thing of plastic to buy a metal alternative? I still threw away the plastic thing eventhough it was still working.
Cars are obviously slightly different because of their fuel usage and such, but I think you are totally right in your specific thinking about your usage patterns and some possible next owners usage patterns. The thing doesn't just disappear.
To bring this back to cars a bit more, I am currently planning a US roadtrip in the summer and for a little while played with the idea of trying out an electric vehicle for that. Problem is, you can hardly rent them and where you can, you a) can't do one-way rentals, which I have to do for my trip plan to work and b) you can only get Teslas and while renting one would only be a marginal gain for the company, I have lost all interest in those cars due to the antics of the company's owner. So I guess I'll go with a combustion engine after all... (and if someone happens to know of a way to rent something like a Hyundai Ioniq or something else for about three weeks, one-way, I'd be happy about a heads-up...)
900hp Lotus Eletre R SUV
For buyers it comes down to the believe that an e-Lambo or a e-Lotus is the better car than an e-Kia or an e-Hyundai and that the difference is worth >40 K Euros/Dollars/Pounds. To me, as long as the quality is there and the car is reliable and has physical switches for all the important stuff, I will be happy.
Usually concept cars are more 'space-y' than the ultimate result, and the Stratos lines do get me excited. I just hope they don't go too futuristic...
Biggest in size and ugliest lotus ever ?
Hopefully the Lotus ev sports cars are styled better.
The KIA EV6 GT probably is the best looking Electric suv for me.
I prefer the Mini....