Those things need to be put out of their misery. Just when I thought the SMART car was the dumbest thing on the road, along comes a new contender. What the crap is GM thinking? My guess it will get a “best mpg in it’s class” of 35mpg (which is piss poor to have to drive around on an abortion on wheels and putting your life in danger if you roll over a twig you’re off the road and dead) where a 1977 VW Diesel Rabbit pickup truck would pull near 50mpg on old technology from the 70s.
There is a diesel Rabbit that I see in town from time to time. I smokes so badly that it’s hard to see it but apparently you can’t kill these things off...
VW still makes a diesel JettaTDI, and they still get near 50 MPG. I can not fathom how anyone would buy a car that will need all the batteries replaced in 3 to 5 years to the tune of 3 to 5 grand. When the VW and it’s Audi TDI counterpart get better mileage than the Hybrids on the market without the expensive batteries.