This is what I’ve wanted for a while. Small, electric, simple. Decent range too. Now when can I buy it in the states? Oh wait never… man fuck these American car manufacturers. I don’t want a giant SUV or a king cab pickup that I can’t see a full grown adult directly in front of me.
this post was submitted on 31 May 2026
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You will take your Canyonero and enjoy it. FREEDOM! (EAGLE CRY!)
"12 yards long, two lanes wide, 65 tons of American pride! Canyonaro!"
size is right. simple. practical. don't need a deafening sound system, though. and the range could be a bit longer so i could always charge at 11c/kwh here instead of 4x that or more in the city.
I went to an ATM in this fancier suburb on my way to meet up with a friend a while back, and they had this thing raised up so high because of all the SUVs and pickups that people must drive around there, I had to unbuckle just to insert my card. I was mildly infuriated in my little rusty sedan.
I went to the grocery store the other day and there was this oversized pavement princess that the hood was literally taller than me standing directly in front of it. If I hadn’t been alone I would have gotten someone to take a pic. I’m 5’10”.
It reminds me of this graphic.
And this only goes up to 1.43m. This truck was at least 1.8m.
They just keep getting bigger and bigger.
You have drive-through ATMs?
I don't think I have ever used an ATM that was not drive through.
Fairly common in suburbs, drive put the card put money or get money, roll away. Thing is when everything is cursed with a mile of parking lots in any direction getting places in a car is the only resort. Yeah people can bike, but today in Sofla was 33c feels like 39c, and rains in the afternoon dropped about 20mm of water in 45 mins...
Comments like this remind me why I will never move to the US.
Sometimes I wonder what the heyday of "hotcakes" must have been like to have become the reference point for a customer frenzy.
"In 1830s America church bake sales and fairs often sold pancakes, known as Hot Cakes or Johnny Cakes. These were much nicer hot than cold and usually sold as soon as they were made." (source)
No shit, an electric hatchback has got to be fun as hell to drive and infinitely more practical than 99% of hulking, maintenance prone ICE cars.
assuming the following is true, this is a new car I would actually buy
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no LED headlights (they are dangerous and rude)
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you can disable the fake engine noise and transmission behaviour
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the touchscreen is minimal and crucial controls are not locked behind menus or on the touchscreen in the first place
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there aren't excessive privacy concerns or lockouts preventing user maintenance
For me one of biggest selling points is that the company is from a middle power. I don’t want Winnie The Pooh or Mango Mussolini getting a cut.
Yeah pedo island is so much better
no LED headlights (they are dangerous and rude)
Can you explain why you think LED headlights are either of those?
Too bright and concentrated. Both US and Canada will be regulating them.
as they should. but the source of the light isn't the problem, it's how the light is focused and directed and cut off, and that can be done just as effectively for LEDs as any other light source.
they're blinding, preventing oncoming people from being able to see. and because lowbeams are just as bright as highbeams, just aimed lower, even lowbeams blind people. drive anywhere in a hilly area and this becomes apparent.
they're also obscene to be blasting into pedestrian and cyclist eyes in low speed neighbourhoods with streetlights. like how would those drivers feel if I walked around with a 4000lumen flashlight pointed at their eyes as they drive.
are you sure that the light source itself is the problem, though?
with proper housing and aiming there's nothing special about LED light compared to xenon or halogen that makes it any more blinding.
the problem is automakers and wildly outdated regulation allowing automakers to make their shit as bright as they can legally maneuver around. not the specific type of light source.
They do it because they get saftey ratings which are occupant based.
You want the absolutely brightest, longest shining lights possible to light up as much of the road as possible, but that has consequences for others.
Theyre probably bumping up against whatever high end limits are allowed before the saftey agencies cause a fuss.
But while it might solve one problem fixing this issue, it will probably cause another, e.g more people will be overdriving their lights.
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Honestly didn't expect this from Honda. I hope they continue to produce more cheap EVs.
I dig the kinda subdued rocket rabbit kit look.
Good, more EVs is more better!
...with a fake 7-speed transmission and Active Sound Control system to emulate the sounds and jerk feeling of an old-school internal combustion engine...
WTF
Aah, it's for jerks
As long as you can turn it off... People who want that really do baffle me, though
My 2019 VW GTI has this, not because it's electric and has no engine, but because the sound dampening between the engine bay and cabin is so good that the engineers thought it necessary. It's the first thing I disabled. So dumb.
I want that. It sounds genuinely fun. Hyundai's Ioniq 5 N has that sort of thing and it got a ton of positive reviews.
It's something you think you want, until you hear silence.
I've been driving electric for nine years. I very much enjoy the silence. And I would still like fake gears for the funsies, doesn't even need to include fake sounds.
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Oh hey, a car that's basically what I wanted. A reasonably sized and priced electric hatchback.
Not in the market for a new car though
Canada will get Renault EVs as soon as next year...Alpine brand.
That car is going to cost twice or even thrice as much. Alpine is a premium performance brand.
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Renault has also sold out its EV Renault 5 Turbo 3E.
The winners in this transition will be manufacturers who design EVs to sell, not EVs designed to generate hate for EVs.
Performance sounds about like my Leaf after upgrading the battery. This part made me lol tho: " fake 7-speed transmission and Active Sound Control system to emulate the sounds and jerk feeling of an old-school internal combustion engine (ICE) sports car." No thanks, but I'd buy the non-sports model they based it on.
Engineering Explained tested out Hyundai's offering if an electric car with shifting. I tend to agree with most of what he says on his channel, and he's certainly a gear head, so I trust that it can be implemented in a fun way.
without the sound through speakers, it seems a bit like manual power settings on an ebike. Caps the max speed to a gear/PAS number.
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Goddamnit, why wasn't this a thing 3 years ago, when we were LOOKING for an EV in this price-range?
Because the industry is consolidated enough that it’s possible for them ignore consumer preference and focus on high margin, low capital investment projects to pump stock values.
Now there is a set of new competitors not beholden to the pressure of the US/Japanese/European/Korean stock markets that are threatening to take massive market share, (Chinese EV companies).
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