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here today we have the Fiat 500e the

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cheapest EV in North America that has been so successful in the last month

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that has been out that the factory that makes it has been on a month-long

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shutdown let's take a look at why this has been so unsuccessful and why it is

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the cheapest EV styling wise I think that Fiat has done a really good job we

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have the project Red version right here which means that some of that money is

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going towards helping out with HIV and AIDS very good and the rest of the

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project red package means that it is red and it is the base model that is it that

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said though they have done an excellent job at making this look like the typical

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Fiat 500 without ruining the look as it

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got turned into an EV there also are a whole bunch of really nice little

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touches here that let you know that it was made in Italy like right here we

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have an Italian flag and if you look a bit closer we also have condensation

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opening up the hood we we have hydraulic lifters love to see that and there's not

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a whole lot going on in here you don't get a frunk but you do get enough space

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that if something does happen to break you can probably get your hand in and

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fix it and one thing that's pretty cool is apparently this powertrain will be

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offered to the aftermarket if you want to use it for Ev conversions in the

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future moving around to the side we have 17-in Alloys that are diamond cut and

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they are wrapped in 205 tires we do not

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have door handles in the traditional sense but you kind of put your hand in

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here pull out it actually does work really quite well if you want to lock it

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when you go away you just press that little button right there after

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traversing all 3.6 M from front to rear

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we can see the back which of course still does look really cool I do love

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the red paint once again and we have a

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little bit of a trunk you can fit maybe three LTT backpacks in here it's not the

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worst Siz trunk that I've ever seen Unfortunately they don't fold flat so

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you can't fit anything really big in there but overall it could definitely be

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worse given the size of this car moving on to charging this thing is built on a

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400 volt architecture that features a 42

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KW battery which is quite small which

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means that you only get 227 km of range

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what is fortunate though is that because the battery is quite small charging it

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up is no problem at all even on just a

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level two charger and they were nice enough to include one in the back with

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it from the factory also it's got cute little drum brakes so there's not nearly

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enough Headroom back here for anyone

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there's also not enough leg room for anyone that isn't a child the seats

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themselves are not the worst I've ever sat in and you get a cup holder oh

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no I thought that the seat went back to where I had it set but it's as far as it

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will go forward so if you want to fit two people that are 6 ft in here one

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will be like this and the other one will be it's exactly like this too but in the

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back uh let's move this back a bit oh there we go sitting down here in the

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driver's seat it's actually pretty good the seat itself for one looks really

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cool they have this super nice Fiat stitching in there we have an armor

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right here that moves forward and back that has some excellent padding we've

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got a little bit of padding on the left side here and the rest of it all could

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be pretty accely described as a very

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Fisher Price in here you also get one little cup holder that you can move away

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when you're not using it you also get what's not really a cup holder but you

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can use to put an LTT water bottle in right down there you also get type A and

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type c charging as well as 12vt and Raiden here is the microfiber cloth that

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you will need because all the stuff that you touch is piano black controls on the

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steering wheel all piano black every

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single surface that you need to use is piano black one place in here that was

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very nicely done is where you put your phone they have a little cityscape of a

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Torino where this was made you can just throw it right in there there's a chi

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charger that will pair your phone and it also has NFC that will allow for easy

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connection to the Bluetooth and also if you don't like Wireless you can just

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connect it right there to a data cable and all of it just works really quite

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well moving on to the infotainment it's not very good here we have a 10.3 in

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screen but that is a diagonal measurement and the actual area is less

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than you might expect because it is so freaking wide and the way that it is

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used is not the best and it always wants

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to go like past where I want to be so so that I want the nav why did it go past

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the nav right there I don't know all of this is really quite confusing in here

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like we have audio settings controls settings and vehicle all of which are

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just different settings and we'll kind of just send you to different screens

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within this and all of it is pretty

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difficult to use in particular because when I'm driving I am back here like

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this and it's a little bit of a reach so I end up just using my thumb and having

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my hand planted on it like so overall

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it's not the worst that I've experienced because it does at least have Android

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auto and that does work pretty good even if the aspect ratio is a little bit

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weird but it really likes to just sort of lag out or just kind of stop working

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to open the doors it's just a little click and it actually works really quite

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well but if you do get trapped inside there is a handle down below to

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emergency release it okay I'm recording in a kind of silly way here but this has

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been annoying the ever living hell out of me so I'm going to put my foot on the

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brake press the start button okay it

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looks like it has started all of this appears to be on look at that now if I

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press Drive press break pedal and press start

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button it doesn't work the first time every single time so I have to come in

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here again and press that what why do I have

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to do that twice guys just let me turn it on it's so annoying all right now I

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can press the least satisfying gear selector and we will be on our way all

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right here we are in the Fiat 500e traction control is off and we're going

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to launch it wow that is not very fast

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in here we have 115 horsepower actually it's 117 that's a good distinction and

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160 ft-lb of torque which takes you from 0 to 60 in 7.9 seconds I don't know if

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you're really allowed to call it slow when it's under eight because that I

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think is kind of the cut off so instead it is perfectly average in speed now

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once you've gotten ELO of a launch it is pretty py like I just floor it here it's

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nothing exceptional but it is enough to sort of Dart in and out of traffic

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without really being worried like you might be in like an older gen Prius or a

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yis where you just can't quite keep up that said though where the problems come

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in are when you start entering a corner

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I don't know how they managed it but this thing is under 3,000 and I was

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having genuine difficulty keeping up with our F-150 camera car like how how

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is this worse at handling than an

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F-150 since a higher steering weight would be transformative to how this

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performs on the road I spent literal hours trying to figure out how to get it

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more so it says in the owner's manual alternate electri power steering efforts

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can be selected in the UK connect system referred to customer programming features with the new connect settings

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and multimedia for further information what does that mean I have literally no

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clue I've gone through all of the menus in here and could not find anything so I

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thought hey maybe it's in the Fiat app so I went gave all my personal details

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to the dealer so they can go and make money off of the data that I generate

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while I'm in this car and turns out in this app there is nothing about steering

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weight I even went so far as contacting Engineers within Fiat I talked to Fiat

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assistants all of them absolutely no idea how to do it okay well I'm not

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quite sure how to how feel with that one so I guess we

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just have to deal with it and the absolute worst part is the steering

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weight isn't even the worst part of the whole handling setup because the

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suspension in this is dog it is

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fuing terrible it is truly an accomplishment how the engineers at Fiat

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have managed to make the suspension in this both stiff and underdamped at the

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same time so first of all stiff stiff

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cars are great because what you want to do is hit a bump and then have your car

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immediately settle so you go over

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something and that is completely fine by me because then you can say that you're

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going in a corner you hit a bump your car doesn't get unsettled and that is

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great whereas this right here we're going to go into a

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corner I don't know what's happening because this has this really

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weird thing where you hit a bump and it's more

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like because you sort of get the first bump and then a second bounce afterwards

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but it's like it's a really fast bounce and a lot of other cars that are under

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damp sort of like your Mercedes your big wallowy SUVs you'll sort of you know you

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get that bump and like like it sort of moves around a bit

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after you hit a bump but at the same time it's taking all of the harshness

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out of the ride and sort of just cruising over top of all of the stuff

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this right here has somehow managed to both give you that initial sharpness of

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a hit and then a bounce which means it's just always feeling unsettled I never

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know what it's doing in a corner and it's just bad this is a brand new car it

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has under 2,000 km in it and it also has

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a shake on the highway I don't know if the tires are improperly balance or it

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doesn't have the correct alignment but what's even more impressive is that jam

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test drove a completely different car and it also had a shake on the highway

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it's really quite concerning when you're going down the highway in a brand new

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car and it is just shaking the entire

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time so if you currently have a Fiat 500e and it is shaking new cars don't do

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that go to the Dodge dealer and tell them fix it please get a free alignment

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or if you're looking to get one of these please please please have them throw in

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a balance and Alignment before you drive it off of the log in here we have the

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Basse sound system which is not as good as the JBL that you can get in the

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inspired by music trim although that said it's pretty hard to recommend an

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extra $5,000 on top of a car whose main

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selling feature is being cheap but that said this right

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here is the worst sound system that we have ever measured it has an incredible

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bump in the base up until 60 HZ where it

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just completely craters and goes off a

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cliff so you have a lot of baselines that will be really loud and then just

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completely disappear although that's it if you look at the frequency respon

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resps right around like 20 htz it has a

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little bump and you can actually feel it because the doors when you have really

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low notes will start vibrating and it's

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kind of fun that said though the these

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speakers are not very good no staging at all you can just hear music from speaker

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down there uh get the JBL sound system

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if you want it to sound okay another thing that is reserved for the higher

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trims is adaptive cruise control in my personal opinion adaptive of cruise is

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why you buy a new vehicle it is the single best feature that has come out in

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the past 10 or so years it is incredible and it is a sin that the base models of

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this do not get it you do get active braking so that'll give you a bit off of

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your insurance and I suspect that everything that's required for adaptive

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cruise is probably already on this so

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chances are down the line you'll be able to just unlock it for free if you know

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what you're doing I guess one thing that I want to make clear here is that I

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actually like this car as a concept I have nothing against a low-range cheap

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EV because in my mind that is where a

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lot of people will be getting their first EV once it makes a little bit more

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sense I know that for like me and my partner I have a gas car that can drive

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us wherever we want she just drives to and from work every single day this

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would be absolutely perfect and we have been looking into EVS very similar to

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this but that said this is not it at all

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with the project red package this right here comes in at $42,000 Canadian in BC

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that gets knocked down to $33,000 with all the government

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subsidies and at either of those prices it's it's a very bad deal something like

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the old Chevy bolt which has been discontinued is better in every single

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way than this if you're looking for a GP there is the Volkswagen eolf much better

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car use Tesla Model 3 way better even a

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used postar 2 is an incredible option at

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the moment because those have depreciated horrifically but the Fiat

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500e at any of those prices I cannot recommend it is the same price as a

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Prius Prime which is just so much better

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and sure that has a stop sale right now but at least it's not because no one

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wants to buy them and at that $33,000 Canadian Mark you can get a hybrid Civic

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a hybrid Corolla so many other cars that

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are just so much more of a complete package they have good steering a

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comfortable ride a bit more room the

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only thing that this car has is looking cool and in my opinion that's not enough

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to sell a car so yeah I am very sorry

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stantis that's my honest opinion of this car it is what it is it also is the end

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of this video huge thanks for sticking around hit like get subscribed and just

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have a great all day I'll see you guys in the next one