(3) “…It’s worse than I feared; the #AlpineA110 is fantastic. #Renault - part of the recently restructured Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance - has said the #Alpine brand could return to the U.S. before the end of the decade.
But the #A110, already long of tooth, is unlikely to be around to plant the flag.
If so, I’ll be tickled…well, you know.”
-#DanNeil on the Alpine A110 pink-colored South Beach Edition car that he reviewed while in the U.K.
(2) “…In any event, the glittery pastels seem more likely to appeal to club-going college-age women, for whom South Beach represents not a gay enclave but a raver’s paradise, an all-night Day-Glo Shanghai-La of parties & pools to fall into.
Thus the disappointed looks whenever the driver’s door opened &, instead of a princess 👑 looking for a 🎉 party, I stepped out, a frumpy American asking to use the loo. Sigh. I used to be the belle of the ball.”…
(1) #Renault’s premium-performance #Alpine brand, the 2-seat, mid-engine #AlpineA110 is often compared favorably to #Porsche’s #718Cayman.
#WSJ’s #DanNeil, on the #SouthBeach Edition:
“As for the stereotype embedded in the South Beach nomenclature, that it’s a pink car for out-and-proud self-identifying males, you’re thinking of a black #DodgeChallenger…”
“People sometimes write to me complaining of the denatured, antiseptic character of new #cars.
They are too #safe, too soft, too easy to #drive & too much alike, the same #PlayDoh through the same squeezy machine, delivering indistinguishable driving experiences 🚘
To these would-be wearers of dashing scarfs, these gourmets of windswept 🐞 bugs, I say try on the #Super3. It’s a special kind of different. 3 wheels, 2 seats, no doors, no top…Dash mounted windscreens…slim & none.”
“Like a #4H Club event at the state fair, the premium #crossover mkt…attracts cute little #heifers from all over: Sweden (#Volvo), Japan (#Lexus), Germany (#Audi), US (#Lincoln) & South Korea (#Hyundai)…no matter how primped & polished the contestants, when they enter the ring, they become 🐄 livestock - commoditized, consumable. Discerning judges look past the braided tails & cow mascara. It’s about the beef on the hoof…the #Genesis GV70 might as well be Babe the Blue Ox.” 👀
Describe a car? Maybe as: cool. #WSJ’s #DanNeil’s description of #Kia EV6 GT:
“…has the best-looking top hat - what the industry calls the outer body structure over a commonized platform…the way the low roof pays out from the sleek, seamless windshield 🚘…note the fastidious fitment required by the car’s distinctive slingback character line, uniting the rocker-panel accents w/the fierce red bow of the taillamps arcing across the hatch.
Excuse me ma’am, your 👠 #ManoloBlahniks are on 🔥 fire.”
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A 💥WOW-type driving experience from a #Kia EV6 GT? #WSJ’s #DanNeil:
“Flooring the accelerator now will generate spectacular inertial effects - the kind of blurry, breathless, #WhatHaveIDone kind of #acceleration⚡️ that will REVERSE THE TIDE OF SPIT IN YOUR MOUTH.
#DontBeAfraid, hon. I’m just clearing the intersection.”
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The sound of #math ✖️ ➕ ➖ ➗ and an EV that per #WSJ’s #DanNeil, is one of the best that’s not a #Tesla: #Kia EV6 GT:
“According to #CarAndDriver’s testing, this pretty family #hatchback can bolt from 0 to 60mph in 3.2 seconds; clock the quarter-mile in a #Lamborghini-like 11.6 seconds; & touch 161mph, all while emitting nothing more than a monk-like ‘ommmmm.’
That’s also the #sound I make when I do #arithmetic in my head.”
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Renee