Sometimes I wonder what the heyday of "hotcakes" must have been like to have become the reference point for a customer frenzy.
this post was submitted on 31 May 2026
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This is what I’ve wanted for a while. Small, electric, simple. Decent range too. Now when can I buy it in the states? Oh wait never… man fuck these American car manufacturers. I don’t want a giant SUV or a king cab pickup that I can’t see a full grown adult directly in front of me.
I went to an ATM in this fancier suburb on my way to meet up with a friend a while back, and they had this thing raised up so high because of all the SUVs and pickups that people must drive around there, I had to unbuckle just to insert my card. I was mildly infuriated in my little rusty sedan.
You have drive-through ATMs?
Fairly common in suburbs, drive put the card put money or get money, roll away. Thing is when everything is cursed with a mile of parking lots in any direction getting places in a car is the only resort. Yeah people can bike, but today in Sofla was 33c feels like 39c, and rains in the afternoon dropped about 20mm of water in 45 mins...
I went to the grocery store the other day and there was this oversized pavement princess that the hood was literally taller than me standing directly in front of it. If I hadn’t been alone I would have gotten someone to take a pic. I’m 5’10”.
It reminds me of this graphic.
And this only goes up to 1.43m. This truck was at least 1.8m.
Honestly didn't expect this from Honda. I hope they continue to produce more cheap EVs.
No shit, an electric hatchback has got to be fun as hell to drive and infinitely more practical than 99% of hulking, maintenance prone ICE cars.
I dig the kinda subdued rocket rabbit kit look.
assuming the following is true, this is a new car I would actually buy
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no LED headlights (they are dangerous and rude)
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you can disable the fake engine noise and transmission behaviour
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the touchscreen is minimal and crucial controls are not locked behind menus or on the touchscreen in the first place
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there aren't excessive privacy concerns or lockouts preventing user maintenance
For me one of biggest selling points is that the company is from a middle power. I don’t want Winnie The Pooh or Mango Mussolini getting a cut.
no LED headlights (they are dangerous and rude)
Can you explain why you think LED headlights are either of those?
Too bright and concentrated. Both US and Canada will be regulating them.
as they should. but the source of the light isn't the problem, it's how the light is focused and directed and cut off, and that can be done just as effectively for LEDs as any other light source.
they're blinding, preventing oncoming people from being able to see. and because lowbeams are just as bright as highbeams, just aimed lower, even lowbeams blind people. drive anywhere in a hilly area and this becomes apparent.
they're also obscene to be blasting into pedestrian and cyclist eyes in low speed neighbourhoods with streetlights. like how would those drivers feel if I walked around with a 4000lumen flashlight pointed at their eyes as they drive.
are you sure that the light source itself is the problem, though?
with proper housing and aiming there's nothing special about LED light compared to xenon or halogen that makes it any more blinding.
the problem is automakers and wildly outdated regulation allowing automakers to make their shit as bright as they can legally maneuver around. not the specific type of light source.
oh, they could absolutely make LEDs in an acceptable manner. but they don't.
there's some more inherent difficulty with getting LEDs to be acceptable, as well. not to mention the way they're built nowadays means they're not easily replaceable.
however, your comment about aiming is completely incorrect. aiming is irrelevant, because roads have curves and elevation changes and bumps. lights need to not be so dangerously blinding even if pointed straight at somebody's face, because they will be pointed straight at somebody's face for many non-negligible occurrences. I know this because it happens to me every fucking night I'm outside around cars.
again your complaint has nothing to do with the light source. you're (rightfully, I agree!) talking about brightness, nothing to do with how the photos are generated, just how many are being generated.
The last two points are very valid but I think the fake engine noise while driving is pretty important for safety, no? Personally, I cant drive and usually get around by bike or on foot where a car that's totally silent can be dangerous if you don't see it coming
so, I meant fake engine noise in the cabin, not external noise
however, I'm also against that godawful sound that cars make at low speed. it's infuriatingly disturbing. their tires make enough goddamn noise already. I understand the reason for it, and it accomplishes its job, and my opinion is that I hate it. I hate-stare at drivers whose vehicle is making that whirring noise whenever one is near me
In the US cars are supposed to emit a Pedestrian Warning System (PWS) at low speeds. This not a vroom-vroom. Cars make plenty of noise, even EV .
Good, more EVs is more better!
I just did an informal poll at my workplace and nobody is terribly interested in hot cakes.
Oh hey, a car that's basically what I wanted. A reasonably sized and priced electric hatchback.
Not in the market for a new car though
Canada will get Renault EVs as soon as next year...Alpine brand.
That car is going to cost twice or even thrice as much. Alpine is a premium performance brand.
US is not one of their listed market options/ambitions.
No one is buying EVs, tariffs and the economy is shit until 2030 or longer.
tariffs are confusing. Courts keep striking them down. Used EVs are doing very well in current gas crisis. Cheap subcompact hatchbacks should appeal for same general reason.
BYD should get in this hot hatch business and make a sporty version of one of their small models
GWM have a sporty hatch.
Their premium version is more of a sedan, with noticeably worse aesthetics (in my eyes)
https://www.carexpert.com.au/car-reviews/2025-gwm-ora-sport-review
Performance sounds about like my Leaf after upgrading the battery. This part made me lol tho: " fake 7-speed transmission and Active Sound Control system to emulate the sounds and jerk feeling of an old-school internal combustion engine (ICE) sports car." No thanks, but I'd buy the non-sports model they based it on.
Engineering Explained tested out Hyundai's offering if an electric car with shifting. I tend to agree with most of what he says on his channel, and he's certainly a gear head, so I trust that it can be implemented in a fun way.
without the sound through speakers, it seems a bit like manual power settings on an ebike. Caps the max speed to a gear/PAS number.
I tend to agree with most of what he says on his channel
Careful with that guy, he reads off corporate scripts a lot. And for a gear head, he makes a lot of stupid purchases.
I agree we should be careful with his sponsored videos. But i do appreciate that he makes it so obvious when he reads from the talking points they give him. I don't think he has a bad track record as such with cars. I think he just enjoys trying new things with his second car, as he seems to always have an ol' reliable one off to the side.
...with a fake 7-speed transmission and Active Sound Control system to emulate the sounds and jerk feeling of an old-school internal combustion engine...
WTF
Aah, it's for jerks
As long as you can turn it off... People who want that really do baffle me, though
I want that. It sounds genuinely fun. Hyundai's Ioniq 5 N has that sort of thing and it got a ton of positive reviews.
By petrol head idiots who think popping exhausts are cool and attract women.
It's something you think you want, until you hear silence.
I've been driving electric for nine years. I very much enjoy the silence. And I would still like fake gears for the funsies, doesn't even need to include fake sounds.
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