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John Rumm wrote:
So with 140 hp, despite being light and with a good CD, it can only manage
0-60 in 12 seconds and 100 mph?

Think they calim 122bhp now... but its only 78 of your real bhp though -
since the engine is the only source of power ultimately. The claimed
output can only be sustained until the batteries are low on juice. An
enthusiastic drive round some B roads ought to see to that ;-)

Not even an enthusiastic drive round B roads, but just ordinary suburban
use, as Autocar found out, where it did the same MPG than a BMW 330d once
the battery range was exhausted.

It's a vehicle designed to get round one problem - that of LA and cities
like it. As a town car. Not an answer to either overall CO2 emissions, or
as a general purpose vehicle, for those who can only afford one car of
this sort of price. Hence the poor sales of only 100,000 worldwide.

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