You think you hate EVs now? Wait until you see what Toyota is working on.

[97prizm]

Hopefully the writer (Andrew Hawkins) got duped by something that floated around the office on April 1 and it just finally made it to print. Good grief, that's terrible.

Actually check out a previous Jalopnik article. A guy converted his Ferrari 308 to an ev with a full manual transmission.
Ferrari 308 ev

 

[supton]

I don't see Toyota's usual buyers wanting or needing this one bit. They sell, what, a million Camrys a year but how many of them are sticks? A half-dozen or so? They're probably all here on the forum.

In the USA? zero, afaik I bought the last year available, 2011. Wrecked it last year, otherwise would still have… wife did intentionally buy it as a stick, and was sad to give it up in her new Camry.

But definitely a low take “option“ on this model.

 

[jeepman3071]

I don't get it. My friend's drop dead gorgeous BMW i8 plays fake engine sounds through the radio. She thinks it's stupid.

This is a huge turn off for me for a lot of new sportier cars. It's insulting IMO. Do the manufacturers really think I'm stupid enough to believe a turbo V6 sounds like a V8, or a turbo 4 sounds like an inline-six?

It sticks out to me like a cute girl with an insanely obnoxious laugh.

 

[Quantico]

I can see the electric harleys with 1000 watt speakers to reproduce the potato potato sound of a harley. Blipping their volume control at stoplights. Give them a fake shifter too. Maybe they can face the forward so people will hear them coming.

Rod

Will there be an oil tank that leaks a quart every 100 miles to get the full harly experience? And some sort of off balance paint shaker to vibrate the entire bike??

 

[Marcozi]

I don't get it. My friend's drop dead gorgeous BMW i8 plays fake engine sounds through the radio. She thinks it's stupid.

Yup, I coded mine out.

 

[Hermann]

This is a huge turn off for me for a lot of new sportier cars. It's insulting IMO. Do the manufacturers really think I'm stupid enough to believe a turbo V6 sounds like a V8, or a turbo 4 sounds like an inline-six?

The sport mode on the Maverick Hybrid sounds like a Coyote V-8 going thru the gears. Sure sounds better than Atkission cycle 4-cylinder drone in the other modes.

 

[mbres2000]

But the sound of an electric motor is such a visceral thrill! Why would you want to change a thing???