Spotted: Over-Priced and Under-Ranged

"Nauraushaun" (nauraushaun12) 07/09/2016 at 21:36 • Filed to: IMIEV

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Not sure who would buy such a thing. Small, crazy expensive, poor range. And where I saw it is semi-rural, where you can easily travel 100km in a day and charging infrastructure is lacking.

They look funky though, in Japan they’re sold with a petrol engine so that’s cool. This is the second I’ve seen, and the first was probably the same car.

Svend > Nauraushaun 07/09/2016 at 22:00

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We got both kinds in the U.K. Though we stopped getting the petrol a couple of years ago. The petrol goes for only a few hundred pounds used and the insurance is ridiculously cheap on them.

Funktheduck > Nauraushaun 07/09/2016 at 22:10

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I've seen 2 total ever. One was in college. A professor owned it. The other was in a parking lot in Atlanta.

Nauraushaun > Svend 07/09/2016 at 23:17

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Oh I thought that was Japan only! We could have them imported here, but Australians aren’t huge fans of such cars.

Svend > Nauraushaun 07/09/2016 at 23:36

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To be honest we weren’t much of a fan for it either. It was called ‘I’ and had a 0.66 litre engine doing 54mpgUK. Just looked on Autotrader, they are going for £2-3,000 for a 2008 car. They were less than £1,000 for the great one only a few months ago.

They were never good looking but practical and economical. Less boring looking than som car on the road I guess.

Nauraushaun > Svend 07/10/2016 at 00:24

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I see what you mean.

bhtooefr > Funktheduck 07/10/2016 at 20:34

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Mind you, the US one is a lot bigger.

The one sold everywhere else (including Canada) is an actual kei car.

Amoore100 > Nauraushaun 10/04/2016 at 02:10

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Worse yet, I believe all of Europe got the iMIEV’s two just-as-useless siblings as well, the Citroen C-Zero and the Peugeot iON.

Nauraushaun > Amoore100 10/04/2016 at 02:16

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Ugh.

You really do love badge engineering don’t you?

Amoore100 > Nauraushaun 10/04/2016 at 02:21

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But of course! It’s the deepest and weirdest depths of our automotive world. Well, I say that I love it as in I find it interesting. Probably would never own anything badge-engineered though, unless a Matra counts.

Is it a Matra? Is it a Simca? Is it a Talbot? It’s all three! Because French, that’s why.

Nauraushaun > Amoore100 10/04/2016 at 04:37

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All the plain-but-badge-engineered cars you wouldn’t own...but you’d take some sort of obscure French bastard!

Amoore100 > Nauraushaun 10/04/2016 at 10:03

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Hey, it’s like an old fashioned MR2...simple as you like 1.5-2.0 litre Simca engines with a light fiberglass body!

Nauraushaun > Amoore100 10/04/2016 at 18:03

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Until you need to find parts, right? ;)

Amoore100 > Nauraushaun 10/04/2016 at 18:23

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Well it’s likely that 99% of old Simcas have since rusted away leaving plenty of engine parts for the old Poissy powerplants lying around!

Also, I said fiberglass before but the Bagheera actually had a polyester body!

Nauraushaun > Amoore100 10/04/2016 at 18:59

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It sounds like a lot of fun. I bet it weighs next to nothing too :D

Amoore100 > Nauraushaun 10/04/2016 at 19:27

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Well Jalopnik called the Djet the BRZ of the ‘60s so the Bagheera was probably its equivalent in the ‘70s!

http://jalopnik.com/jason-drives-a-52-year-old-french-brz-1747398443