![]() Every year we hear "New Year New Me!!", and the most that comes out of it is someone dyes their hair or gets a tattoo. This cliche is the most over used and most underdone. Be a grown-ass man who parenthetically answers his own questions. Are you going to wait around for someone else to answer your questions, or are you going to be like Pitbull? Be like Pitbull. (From "Dance Again") Does Pitbull wait for someone to answer his questions? No, because he's a grown-ass man who knows the answers. Modern day Hugh Hef (uh yes) / Playboy to the death (uh yes) / Is he really worldwide? (uh yes). Click to listen to Pitbull on Spotify: As featured. ![]() Lil Jon Pitbull's official music video for 'Krazy' ft. However, Pitbull also wants you to know that you can put that dictionary down. Say them one after another, all the time. Pitbull wants you to never stop studying your map of the world. they get krazy / Miami they get krazy / In New York they get krazy / Atlanta they get krazy / In London they get krazy / In Paris they get krazy / In Rome they get krazy. My condolences.Ĭoda gave me a free T-shirt at the Coda store, I still have it.4. Now Coda is a fading memory, unless you are unfortunate enough to have one in your garage, then you won’t be able to forget. When you gathered writers together, someone will proclaim “there is no such thing as a bad car anymore.” Then somebody would remember Coda and we’d all have a good laugh before we moved back to complaining about the Prius. Still, I’m sad to see Coda Automotive go because there will be one less voice in the EV conversation and auto journalists will have one less car to complain about. ![]() If you think adding passengers would have improved things, we tried, there here were four of us in the car and we are all “American sized”.Īdding insult to injury, the EPA rated the Coda sedan the least efficient EV in modern history. Crashy doesn’t begin to describe what my vertebrae felt on our 50 mile drive. To compensate for the added weight, Coda jammed stiffer springs on all four corners and did nothing else. No 1990s Mitsubishi had a terribly polished ride to begin with, add Chinese tinkering, tinkering by a company that had never built a car before and 728 battery cells and you have a recipe for disaster. What absolutely could notbe lived with was the ride. So far everything I have described could have been lived with, you know, if someone gave you a Coda and you were unable to sell it. Check out Crutchfield for the review on that. ![]() Seriously, they just used an aftermarket double-din radio. I think recalling the horror within is bringing back my PTSD, I need to sit down. Toss in the cheesiest gauges I have ever seen and an imitation Jaguar Drive Selector gear shifter that looked bad and felt worse and the cabin was complete. In truth, the tiller was fairly pleasant to hold, except that when you moved it you were reminded it was attached to a Coda. The dashboard in the “production” vehicle we drove rattled and squeaked non-stop, the radio was a Best Buy special with no Coda customization, and the only “feature” touted was the leather wrapped steering wheel. That’s fine when the Chinese version costs about $15,000, but with a starting price of $37,250, “bad” doesn’t begin to describe what’s happening here. Instead, they attempted to “modernize” things by creating an interior that even Benz/Cerberus era Chrysler would have rejected. Knowing this, I feared that the 2012 Chinese car would still be sporting a 1990s interior. The Saibo was based on a last-century Mitsubishi Lancer, sort of. The result was a grille-free beige something that was so boring we failed to take a side-profile shot of it. Sounds even better, right? Yea, except look what they came up with. Sounds good right? They hired Pininfarina. It looks like a cross between a 1990s Corolla and a 2000 Civic with some 1980s Geo tossed in. Plain hardly begins to describe the Saibo. Hafei was crazy enough to be smoking the same thing Coda’s dudes were, so they offered up their Saibo sedan as a donor car. Since Coda was a small California company without the deep pockets of Elon Musk, they did what any start-up with a screw loose would do: turn to China. If you ordered your car by the inch, the Coda is what 176 inches of generic sedan would look like. I know it’s bad form to speak ill of the departed, but this is TTAC so let’s have a review style requiem for the worst EV ever made. Coda has filed for chapter 11 protection. Since that night I have struggled to erase the Coda from my mind when today it all came flooding back. Bertel and Ed wisely chose to leave the driving to me (although they did toss me in the trunk and close the lid later that evening). ![]() No automotive event would be complete without a drive and our electrifying dinner was no different. About a year ago Bertel, Ed and I ended up in Los Angeles for a PR meet/dine with Coda. ![]()
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