Shame – the Yaris not due out until July 2012 🙁

That FatMAX is still the coolest car shown on this thread… 😉

bol – I too like the plug-in. 12.5 miles is enough for going to town and back, but the GM one should to 40 miles supposedly which would be a lot better. Smaller car tho.

I’d love to know how they calculate 108mpg though – presumably that’s only when the battery is fully charged, so will deterioriate on a long trip.

yaris for me..
very nice..

and you get to pick up intelligent eco friendly sexy new age hippy chicks instead of Jodie Marsh or whatever it is that you pick up in a lamborghini..

I’d love to know how they calculate 108mpg though – presumably that’s only when the battery is fully charged, so will deterioriate on a long trip.

Presumably it’s based on the standardised ‘official’ consumption tests – another example of how mpg and CO2 figures can easily be massaged with little relevance to the average motorist or real-world performance 😉

What about this then?

Re the fuel consumption tests – found out that there’s now a special international test standard for plug in hybrids to calculate CO2 figures – but I can’t find out what it involves. So I am guessing a different test altogether.

instead of Jodie Marsh or whatever it is that you pick up in a lamborghini

Do I have to pick *that* up in my super-fast-super-cool-super-black-super-everything car?

I’ll take the Prius then…

Do I have to pick *that* up in my super-fast-super-cool-super-black-super-everything car?

yes

super-cool-super-black-super-everything car

Like this?

(10th anniversary special edition Prius)

Well it’s black.

Will it be another French Yaris? It looks like its getting bigger. IMO it should stay as compact as possible unless they are shooting the Auris.

Yeah, that black Prius is getting there I guess.
Helped a lot by being a black car against a, erm, black background.

The Honda CR-Z is by no means that efficient (as I understand it) but it’s by far the ‘coolest’ hybrid at the moment. Well, IMO & I always wanted the original CRX.

All cars get bigger.. they just introduce new small models.

A hybrid iQ should be next.

CR-Z is very nice. 50mpg ish I think. Agreed, the coolest hybrid.

So the next question is – when will they make an affordable fully electric car? I have a relatively short commute and would happily nip back and forth in an electric car but at £26k (which includes the Government grant) that new Nissan Leaf is a bit steep isn’t it?

m_f

£180 for this bad boy…

😆

The Ampera is going to be cheaper I think. How long is your commute?

Mitsubishi iMiev is also £24k including the grant.

ah the prius, a car that has a larger “carbon footprint” to build than an Aston Martin and is no more frugal than say a diesel golf

But if you’re the kind of person that takes your enviromental advice from celebrities, buys your weekly shopping based on the amount of times you can see the words “Organic” and “Fair Trade” in your trolley and thinks that your child may be the next musical prodigy because they may have pointed a a piano once and drooled out the word “penis” then boy is this the car for you.

Almost no-one makes attractive cars anymore. The Prius looks like a rollerboot just like the civic did. They’re harmless, but not exactly nice. The Lambo is pretty damn nice, if we’re going to go away from curves and go to squared lines at least do it properly.

ah the prius, a car that has a larger “carbon footprint” to build than an Aston Martin and is no more frugal than say a diesel golf

Wrong and wrong.

But if you’re the kind of person that hears some rubbish down the pub and spouts it on the internet, then go ahead, knock yourself out 🙂

How long is your commute?

Not too long, around two miles. But I do need to be able to see clients during the day so often do 30 mile round-trips on top.

Plugin Prius would sort you out there then. 12.5 miles on a charge. It’s not cheap but it’s much more of a car than a Leaf, ie closer to the equivalent normal car.

12.5 miles on a charge? And how much do they cost? They would have to be seriously cheap for most people to be prepared to make the inevitable compromises such a small range would bring.

It’s not a compromise – you switch on EV mode if you are doing less than 12.5 miles, otherwise it’s exactly the same as a normal Prius. So you drive to work, plug in (or not), drive home, plug in – no petrol used. Drive to a client – put it in petrol mode and off you go.

Okay – I thought you meant it was an entirely electric car.

But anyway, what I would ‘want’ would be a small and cheap thing to knock around in really – just for those trips to work and back. When my TT goes back in autumn ( 🙁 ) we are getting a sensible family car and I just need something cheap as a runaround. Electric would be perfect but for the price.

Then here are my suggestions:

And I thought ‘cool’ was a condition monitored by 12 year old girls….

for you boblo, it probably is.

Rubbish car this one. Why you likes, Mol? 😕

This should be put into production.

Cos it gets low emissions by being very clever.

But it looks rubbish. 😥

No it does, it actually does. I am an expert, indeed, an authority on aesthetic matters, as you well know, therefore it looks rubbish. I’m sorry Mol, you seem like a decent enough sort, but I’m afraid I simple must say it as it is. I hope you won’t be too upset.

You can always come to your senses and admit you are completely and utterly wrong. I won’t think any less of you for doing so.

think I might be getting one of these soon ( 😐 )

But it looks rubbish

It looks that way because the shape of the body is as efficient as they could make it.

Fitness for purpose is its own beauty.

An electric car, seen recently;

Not at all practical, but cool…….

What is it?

A Renault Avantime – first marketed in 1999 and no longer made.

3.0l V6 over 200bhp iirc

A vel Statis? (sp)