It’s time for Americans to embrace small cars

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It’s time for Americans to embrace small cars
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My dream car is a Nash Metropolitan converted to an EV.

That would be fucking dope. I'd love for retrofuturist cars like this to appear

I wish we got the Honda E. Would buy that up in a heartbeat.

Definitely would love a Honda E, got a Chevy Bolt EV as it seemed like the next best option here.

I'm usually not a hatch fan but that little car looked awesome. I got my last new gas powered manual transmission car before EVs are the main thing. Since I work from home and don't drive a bunch my plan is to keep it as long as I can and get an EV in 4-5 years when hopefully infrastructure catches up a bit and more manufacturers have an option and work out small kinks.

Bro if you could get a used leaf gen one (they run around 4k), you could take that thing to a drag strip and absolutely turn some heads.

I have a friend who wants to take my gen one leaf and do a conversion. He just went to an EV mechanics course on it.

Same with a 1959 Panhard PL 17. Some of those little old cars are just beautiful.

Lovely car! Btw: how do you put a picture in a comment? What sorcery is this?

I'm on desktop, so how I do it is right-click, copy image, then just paste into the post. Not sure how to do it on mobile.

Oh! Ok. I don’t know if that possible in Mlem (iOS app). Thanks!

Got it! it just needs the ![](url) markdown formatting. Thanks a lot. Cheers!

You'd chop up a nash, and put an ev motor in it? I do not have kind words for you.

When I was in high school back in the late 70s you'd still see a few of those around. My friend had one, but not for long. Someone had put in a more powerful motor and if she wasn't careful accelerating she would snap the drive shaft.

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