Comments by "Be Low Below" (@toyotaprius79) on "Car and Driving - Car Reviews" channel.

  1. So refreshing to see new and sensible cars that aren't spoiled by nonsense posh trims and crossover styling purely for profiteering.
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  2. Need The ion, CZero and iMiEV are rare as hens teeth on the second hand market and stubbornly aren't depreciating. Their Battery management are better engineered than Nissan's LEAF too
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  3. With cars like these, why are media websites bombarding us with garbage news that nobody wants EVs? Emphasis on "cars" not ridiculous profit gouging crossovers and SUVs
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  4. Boo hoo😭 Before we know it, Rover will be building Hondas!
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  5. Shame you didn't get the electric version to test out
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  6. Terrible that small cars aren't "profitable" anymore. That's market failure
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  7. I hate this thing and the Aygo Cross as examples of what's really the matter with our automotive markets and why Toyota has slid far behind its former self. Hint: it's not EVs, it's the profit chasing of crossover-SUVs
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  8. It's a Berlingo, folks! The lack of option for a 3 seat front row in the passenger version is a lost opportunity for added flexibility and 8 seats. Toyota should be ashamed for squandering for over a decade and never bothering to offer up a Hybrid van at the bare minimum, admittedly when tax code and laws written for businesses by business interests in politics enforcing tax perks and fuel cards for posh turbo diesel pickup trucks.
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  9. A d this 48v should be in the Fiat 500 and Panda hybrids. The mind boggles at these executive decisions
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  10. Absolutely. Those Japanese cars will absolutely destroy the British car industry.....
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  11. ​ @jpsabbey 😂😂👍
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  12. Honestly the most sensible Toyota in its entire lineup to date, second to the ëBerlingo. Huh... 🤔 The passenger version can come with 3 front seats and 3 3rd row seats. The VW ID BUZZ is woefully poor in comparison
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  13. It's a mish mash half gearted generation. Main drawbacks was that there were not enough Plug-in hybrids sooner!
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  14. ​ @torocars9227 Yank Don't be a nuisance
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  15. I just despise how phoned in this hybrid is from Fiat. It could easily have had the charming but overwhelmed TwinAir, the electric motor be a moderate, beltless pancake motor like the old Honda IMAs. It was also converted into an EV for California only... This 500/Panda mild hybrid is a boosted 12volt system fit for the 1980s. If it were not for the dead and infamous CEO of FCA plugging his fingers up his holes, Fiat would've had hybrids and EVs competing in tge market for as long as Hyundai/Kia.
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  16. A PSA van and a arguably the best designed EV platform under a Toyota badge with the Berlingo sister, certainly better than that woeful bz40
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  17. When we consider how and why we get lumped a €27,000 Yaris with a face of a monkfish , while Japan has themselves a Fiesta-Looking and more practical, more powerful Aqua/PriusC - more than one would think Toyota thought Europeans were tasteless and gullible
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  18. Call it a market failure. People are only advertised what they think they want.
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  19. Could really use one of these. There's an adept string of rapid points every 60km where i am
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  20. Nno
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  21. Ask yourselves the question, why did Nissan keep the Note ePower in Japan since 2016? Why did it take them so long to drop that powertrain into a Qashqai and not in the Juke or something smaller, lighter and more affordable? Reeks of incompetence Why hasn't anyone in Nissan bothered their corporate rotting brains to figure out how the ePower hybrid is perfectly adaptable to be a PHEV?
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  22. Eagre to insult everyone's intelligence with click bait ay? The fact that in Japan Nissan sold the Note with ePower since 2016 and still neglects to offer outside of Japan the ePower drivetrain in a sensible hatchback but instead in a few select premium crossover-SUVs should speak volumes. Excluding the Mitsubishi Outlander the ePower is not in PHEV form (or even retrofitted into the LEAF). 👎 Everyone, e-Power is good n all when it comes to acceleration and refinedness, and it was totally possible for Nissan back in the 2000s but Ghosn didn't bother. Given the series hybrid nature, they are to be honest the least efficient way to burn fuel at sustained motorway speeds.
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  23. The back tyres are wider than the fronts. So yknow, rotate them for the craic
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  24. The sensationalism has worn off. The Citroën Ami does poorly for its name sake. Poor suspension and poor value for money compared to the 12 year old Renault Twizy. Citroën seriously needs to update or redesign the Ami from scratch. Building it in China instead of Morocco would be an obvious first step where if it cost the same as a 50cc motorbike it would be most attractive.
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  25. Honestly, this technology should have been the norm in the 90s - 00s. Why now?
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  26. PSA haven't begun to share with their FCA partners.
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  27. It's a crossover. C'mon
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  28. Crazy how Stellantis just does not give a flying F about the C4 Picasso, it doesn't have to be an Aircrosss SUV, it's better. And crazier still that there's no EV or PHEV
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  29. "Self Charging": 🤢🙉🐂
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  30. The CZero is built in with a self balancing feature. It's slow at 100mA but it works. You'll have to charge with a 3pin granny plug from under 20% and above 80% (lvl 2 doesn't work). Owners have noticed that for 30 mins in both 0-20% and 80-100% the charging stops for 30 mins, this is actually the self balancing gates trickle charging the cells in parallel. Given that your range is 63km, it could take weeks of dedicated 3 pin charging to have all the modules' voltage in sync
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  31. An A1, A2, A3 and TT etron would be nice if not deliberately veed years ago
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  32. I'm still curious and worried about what Stellantis is planning to with Fiat's Twin Air engines
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  33. Mad how Isuzu developed a modest EV pickup and Ford couldn't bother its arse with bringing the Maverick to Europe, never mind the fact that there's only a hybrid and no EV but still in a class of its own
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  34. Still more competitive than a VW ID BUZZ, isn't that abysmal feeling?
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  35. For the more cents than braincells driver, a highly competitive market
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  36. The most competent EV Toyota has on offer, and Toyota has literally zero R&D involvement in making the EV version
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  37. Don't bother fooling yourself if you think that'll protect you from feeling emasculated
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