I have test drove one one of these china smart knock-offs, here is my inital impressions:
- The construction is shotty at best, very cheap fiberglass. Interior is the cheeziest plastic I have ever seen.
- Seats are tiny and uncomfortable, if your larger than 5'5 and 125 lbs, your going to have a hard time fitting in this.
- The ride is super rough, like a go cart with no suspension just the axels welded to the frame, truely a filling-rattling-loose experance.
- The motor and transmission is super I mean SUPER loud, sounds like riding a large cordless electric drill with a bad gear in it. At 30 MPH (they don't come speed limited, I got this one up to about 40 on a down hill) the motor and transmission was so loud you couldn't carry on a conversation.
not too worried about the speed. more worried about everything ELSE about the car.
thanks for the info ryland I appreciate it. I found most of that stuff (though the seattle page is new and enlightening) but they are all talking about the wrong vehicle (though from the specs I have found SAME drivetrain which is concerning. solid axles sounds like a pothold accident waiting to happen.
I have a feeling the WF120V-2T is just a variant of the WF120V and the specs and results are probably similar.
I don't really care if it has cheap plastic and fiberglass body. I would drive and treat it like a motorcycle.
the solid no suspension axles concerns me. our roads are not that great.
I wonder if the person talking about the noise just got a bad sample? I have seen videos of the "car" version of this and it was not "loud" by any measure I would use. extremely quite actually even racing at 40mph in "1st" gear.
but it was a different car so I don't know.
thats why I am seeking info. I don't have $7k but if I can swing it somehow I sure don't plan to plunk down $7k with no info and its downright scary how little I can find on this.
in fact the only picture i found was on wildfire's site even tineye found nothing.
Today
Other popular topics in this forum...
