Not sure I posted this here before. In 2005 I wanted to start a new project car for my business and my son was with me and wanted to do a Prius so we bought one, hated it immediately. First day put real tires on it, big improvement but still a lot left to be desired including horrid road noise. No worries there, I owned possibly the best sound deadening mat product on the market and was the biggest buyer, thus seller of insolite foam, developed for aerospance and airline use, fire retardant, great product, I bought many times more than Boeing. Next, start looking at a small turbo build, custom coilvers, see if I could do something with the brakes, much wider, light weight wheels, sticky tires and possible make it from a poor toaster into a real car....but before I started that it was figuring out how to tap into 200 VDC battery pack. After not finding much info I called two highly regaurded engineers I knew and one had just bought the same car, the other a Honda, one sold out the other decided to leave it stock. I needed three $5k modules to tap into the 200 VDC and be able to have a silent as possible power source, while parked during audio comps. There was no info on whether the modules and factory computers would act nice together, Four days later I took it back and traded toward a Scion tC I ended up going pretty nuts on.
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Anyway, I need to go drive a decent electric car sometime just to experience it. I am actually considering a hybrid, used as seldom buy new stuff, or electric but it would stay mostly stock if I do. I do not think I will like the weight of any electric car no matter how much they try to hide it, always liked very low weight cars my whole over 50 years of modding them.
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I will most likely buy a 2015 2.5 manual trans 5 door Mazda 3, that is a drivers car with very few mods can be amazingly quick in the twisties, great stock as it is! They can get up to 40MPG on the road, which is most of our driving so makes more since than electric in many ways.
I have had around 6-7 Miata's, loved everyone but have an 85lb of sweetheart muscle dog that just will not fit in my wife's lap or on the floor.