.EzraDyer: Make EVs weirder:
BMW is conducting a sort of A/B test on customers, offering traditional cars that happen to be electric alongside avant-garde lunar modules like the iX. Give me the freakmobile. In the i4 M50, you look around the cabin, see a 3-series sedan, and then get sad when it doesn't act like an M3. In the iX M60, your frame of reference is obliterated by crystal-finish switchgear, an electrochromic roof, and a soundtrack scored by Hans Zimmer.
When it comes to electric cars, the stranger the better. Let’s make them look like 1978 F-100s. Let's make them look like flying saucers. While BMW positions its gas-powered and electric sedans as different models, Genesis is bold enough to offer internal-combustion and EV versions of the same dang car, the G80. I drove them back to back and expected I'd prefer the EV—with 365 horsepower, it hits 60 mph in 4.1 seconds, which is 0.6 second quicker than the V-6 car. Alas, speed isn't everything. The Electrified G80 is hushed, refined, and effortlessly quick.
When it comes to electric cars, the stranger the better. Let's make them look like 1978 F-100s. Let's make them look like flying saucers. Give me neon-purple underglow lighting that gets brighter when I stomp the accelerator. Put the steering wheel in the middle of a front bench seat on my six-wheel-drive convertible pickup. Let's have a clean break to the freak side. General Motors already brought back the Hummer. But this is a job for Saab.
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