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Yeah, in the US the attitude has been changing dramatically fast recently. The combination of the Iran war fucking gas prices and the 2025/2026 model year bringing sub-four-second 0-100km to less than $50,000 has really convinced even some of the hardliners (and it helps that car manufacturers finally realized EVs don't have to look like dumpy sedans any more, LOOKING AT YOU TOYOTA). And Rivian proving EVs can offroad has really launched an entirely new market, which has been great fun.
Yea now we get to choose between hatchback on stilts that doesn't have all-wheel drive, hatchback on stilts that gets AWD as an expensive option but still won't be any good off road, as well as wagons on stilts. Ooh and also sedans on stilts.
Fuck this crossover craze, give me back sedans and wagons. An SUV should have actual ground clearance and be able to reliably drive more than one wheel in slippery conditions, not when a computer demands it. If it doesn't that, it's just a hatchback or wagon on stilts.
I'm sorry, I can't hear your reasonable desires and lamentations for the state of the industry, I'm too busy doing a 3.5s 0-100km in The Absolute Most Confusing EV Ever Produced
I mean admittedly I absolutely want one (lmao not for $115k) but only for the sheer perversity of it (it is objectively worse than any other option. On several metrics it even manages to suck worse than the cybertruck). And since I'm not exactly a member of a large demographic, certainly not large enough to support an entire product line like this, I'm damned curious just what the fuck market segment they think they're targeting with this one.
Yanks don't know what high fuel prices are
They just have shitty, inefficient vehicles, because they make cars and motorbikes that are a metaphor for their country
Overweight and slow.
Yep!
Lazy, all about making things bigger rather than better, the thought of something resembling agility is truly terrifying
And obnoxious. Being obnoxious is a feature
I had a neighbour ask if my motorbike was electric, because they never hear me being an obnoxious cunt
It's a 2008 bike, but my penis size isn't correlated with how much noise I can make