Yes! Up to 31mph! Or with a super careful right foot the "hybrid" mode will stay electric up to 46mph. Power in either or hose modes is only about 20hp, and there's only about a mile of EV range available (and then the engine will fire up and sound pretty grumpy until the hybrid battery is recharged)
Not necessarily ... ! I have been fortunate to have the use of an Aston DB9 for 3 months (was a replacement car whilst insurance work took place after a non-fault accident in another car!) and I was lucky to see 225-250 miles in general use, but at a ridiculous 12mpg and £100+ to fill up it soon became really really annoying. Worst still was an Ariel Atom .. that gave me major range anxiety after just 80-90 miles. There's plenty of high-end exec 'sports' cars that have LESS cruising range than a Tesla Model S, but do you ever hear car reviewers going on about it ?
I'd imagine being a Top Gear presenter something like an Aston is the only acceptable manly way to get around a county like Gloucestershire!
I live in Gloucestershire and I have to say that the argument is very silly indeed.
you mean like ones that live near Chipping Norton ?!?Yeah, don't worry - I was being sarcastic
Was a policy with Zurich for another fast'ish car I owned. The accident was non-fault and the wording said they would provide a replacement car of similar performance. They provided a list of available cars that they would rent from a hire company and I picked the DB9. It turned out to be all very nice and twee and a great "gentlemans express" etc etc .. but I soon discovered that it was a case of a big engine bolted to a chassis from the 70's and that it had the potential to make a big hole in the scenery at the first bend. Basically it was a good looking car but without the performance that its look suggest. But theres more to this story .. after a month just about everything on it packed up, so they provided me with another car list and I chose a 911 Turbo manual. That that turned out to be a very used example and sounded like a bag of spanners low down. Performance wise it only really got going above 100mph, right into licence loosing territory.
The name Zoe means new life, so a clever name choice for an EV.
I actually know someone called Zoe who drives a Zoe. Initially, most of her friends took the piss because they thought she'd customised the rear of the car with chrome letters for her name, and none of them realised it was an EV !!
I tend to prefer fast bikes to cars, so I tend to lean toward sportscars which are more minimal and pure, like the Atom and 7. If I had the cash to have just a track-only car I'd love an Atom, but I could never entertain one on the roads. Same for big bikes - after years of biking I'm now running a 125 around the place, it's an awful lot of fun - and every so often I'll go and ride a Fireblade around Donington for some high-speed thrills. There's nowhere on the roads now I'd feel remotely safe on such a powerful machine, which is why I choose to cruise around serenely in a quiet, civilised EVAs for the Atom, I bought one after seeing a certain J.Clarkson getting his face distorted on a TG review. Not much fun on a road. Absolutely mental on a track
Exactly.
Zoe has some very stupid friends
