The Mitsubishi i-MiEV Is the Most Pathetic EV In Existence 

I'm surprised they're still in business (in the U.S. at least), considering that they've been fumbling hard for many years at this point.

@@XxGorillaGodxX when you look Mitsubishi as whole, it's really not a surprise 💀

@@saltytuna3812 true. It’s really just passenger cars and especially in the US market. They do well in other countries and in other industries

Only useful for suicide missions.

R.I.P Evo

same

there's way more. quirks and features!!!

This is not really what I'd call a "run of the mill" car but it still makes an interesting review nonetheless lol

​@@jeffb.6642better to say "cars regular people can afford"

I taught him well 😌

noice!

A neighbour used his a lot and liked it. The keys where always in it and he told me just to take it whenever after work and weekends.

It's funny that I actually also have a Camaro and I had this car for my urban activities.

Well, if your electricity is cheap it will be incredible economic in the long run as maintanence is limited to brakes and tyres. The engine doesn't need any maintanence at all for the first 500,000 miles (or the life cycle of the car).

@@ofnotandi Lmao what kind of fantasy neighborhood do you live in?

Imagine having TWO cars that cumulatively cover 80% of one's driving needs. That is unironically HILARIOUSLY FUCKING PATHETIC lmfao.

That’s cool. Consider to make a video of your repairs and parallel battery setup.

I need an $1800 car just to go to the gym and mall but the Texas heat would be murder in the summer with a car that can't run the AC.

​@@MsBaztasticjust use a spray bottle...... Haven't had any air conditioning in 3 or 4 years and when you don't have a heater core under the - it's a lot cooler in a car.... You can just spray a mister into the fan

So this video is full of S?

Did you throw it away at the junkyard after?

@@daniloz5673 He leased it.. and said it worked for his needs.. and was basically FREE.. sounds smart to me. After a lease is up, you just hand them the car back.

​@@daniloz5673nope.

In some situations I could see this being essentially a highway legal e-bike.

First comment is from a dumb child

I can see that. I though about buying it and giving it a wild paint job. Just to make it even more ugly.

GO HOME PIZZA BOY… THIS COMMENT IS CLOSED. 😂

@@MurderBong I was slinging those Gallo 24s all over town

​@@tylerbecker3348Would have loved to see it: Motley red sprinkled with styrofoam "cheese" bits, burnt crust trim, and pepperoni wheel covers...

​@@1.618Goldenblack with flames on it

So this video is full of S?

For most use cases this car is perfect. It makes definitely more sense than running a Ford F-150 down the road to grab some errands. I like your approach upgrading the battery pack 👍

saddest thing i read today

@@dvojlitrvplastu926 You need to read more.

@@Vitally_Trivial id rather ride a bike

@@dvojlitrvplastu926 Then go ride a bike. I’m not stopping you.

But only if they have doors 😔

Yup. I could not watch until the end of the clip, did he also check out the user guide? It's been a while since he did that in his videos.

Back seats and convertible tops functioning... good times.

Dunking on Mitsubishis and trying to jam into the backseats. We're going old school!!

The US spec iMiEV is 4" wider than the standard as the US distributors thought the original size was too small for Americans. You can see the extra space each side of the back seats, and normal iMiEVs just have one front wiper. Back seats are great for kids or other shorter people. It is a great car for city driving. I have a very rare Tamashii option which has leather seats and I love it.

not lower spec. exact spec.

bruhh

Depending on the market, there were two trim levels, the lower one didn't get the floodlights on the front and they had a more basic stereo.

Yeah same sh*t : peugeot ion - citroën c-zero

Ahead of their time! Just like all the modern cars that install features and then lock them behind a paywall.

It’s the worst when it comes to “Real” EVs! Worse than it are those neighborhood EVs that were like Vespas as cars because they couldn’t go highway speeds.

@@julianurbaszewski4055 No way. The Smart EV is much worse. Can only hold two people and about the same range and costs as much as a regular sized car. Then they refreshed it, made it bigger and uglier, and could still only hold two people and the range was about the same. The "panoramic" roof is plexiglass for crying out loud.

It have LTO batteries. So unlike other EV.. the range will proboly last

But it took 32 hours to charge fully, so you couldnt commute more than 12 miles or so or because it could not keep up.

At least it has fast charging, unlike compliance vehicles of the time such as the Fiat 500e, Smart ED, and Focus EV.

Exactly... all the numbers make sense for the purpose it was built for.... kind of silly to be shocked bu it as if reviewing it as a regular sedan 🙄

​@@lepepusit's more reviewing it from an US-centric pov. Even for people living in cities, driving close to, or above 60mi per day is really common.

@@pleaseelaborate3163 You just nailed Doug's big blind spot

Then they should've kept it in Japan. Almost makes no sense in the US.

@@terrorzilla and the price of Gas in the USA. Notice the Doug score doesn't include MPG which Government ratings show as 176MPG for a Tesla Model 3 in the U.K. Once bought, running one (including taxes) will be far cheaper than any Mercedes A class.

Dead meme, same comment as a few dozen of your fellow mental midgets, grow up, take your inane comments elsewhere and make millions of normal people happy

I thought the cluster looked like Sid from Ice Age

Lol

I see sidd from ice age😂

Overweight Sid anyone?

Interesting

I saw a new Nissan leaf at a Nissan dealership looked pretty nice was available for $39k kind of expensive

@@michaelsuzio4268kind of? You can get a Model 3 with incentives for like 28k

When they gonna sell the new sakura?

Nice

I remember when it first came out and they wanted 50k for it 🤢

Yeah, and with the factory Bose system it sounded great in there..................

@@jordach545Don't worry. It was ahead of its time and most cars ahead of us will be just like it.

Saw a RU-vid short on that custom iPod the other day. Would have been so cool haha

Funny, Doug makes this video saying how horrible his car is in every single comment is from an owner saying this is the best car ever on earth. Lol😮

It was too expensive at the time. Vehicles like this are now taking off at relatively more appropriate prices. The Dacia Spring for example.

"free to drive" except maintenance, warranty and most importantly, depreciation. Its probably already worthless.

@@rykehuss3435 Our car has paid for itself several times with all the fuel we never had to buy. The service costs over 13 years has been very low. All in all the cheapest car we have ever had. And it still goes strong in 2024.

It brought the men closer eh?? 🤣No I get you. I miss squeezing my friends into my 90 Integra. The best thing waa that when you are young your body can contort into any shape ... and its fun!

Mark my words, this car will be lauded in decades for its simplicity and “purity”. No menu diving for controls, no complex sensor arrays, lack of networking etc. it will be seen as a baseline of sorts, a running, working proof of something billions in the future will drive and be shaped by

Idk i remember Estonian state being 'futuristic' in the early 10s and buying these en masse for its social workers. Who drive around countryside. In the winter as well. It proved to be very problematic.

to be fair every properly maintained gasoline car start instantly at -15c but at -15c the range of this car litteraly it's cut in half compared to let's says +20c

We owned one of the petrol powered ones (mid engine rwd, intercooled turbo) and very nearly bought an electric one (yellow, Hello Kitty livery) because while they're not a long distance cruiser by any means (but possible all the same) as a small grocery getter they're almost without equal. Good driving position, great cabin space, enough for small shopping (or heaps with the seats folded), good power (unless the wastegate locks open, then it's a slug) and just pleasant to get around in. Sure, you could argue that any Kei car is a good powered shopping cart but the 'i' was one of very few Kei cars that were actually engineered to a specification as most of them are dumbed down and then tarted up to a price point. Compared to a similar era kei car, the i was not really very exceptional with regard to features JDM customers wanted, but engineering wise it was on completely different level. I'd guess that was part of it's failing, it wasn't bling-y enough and cost too much to build vs a sea of tin cans on wheels with chrome accents and flashing lights. The wipers are a LHD thing. In it's proper RHD configuration, the wiper (1) is cool. I loved ours, and only gave it to my sister in law when we moved from Japan to Australia, otherwise we'd still have it. What I did find is that while the petrol one was a decent drive, the electric one rode better with more weight and the electric torque made it more zippy at lower speeds. As the car never drove further than 40km a day, and never more than 20km from home, it would have been a perfect 2nd vehicle. I wouldn't swap my current car for an i, but I can definitely see me buying one some day just for the fun of it. And if it's electric, I'd have to think updating the driveline wouldn't be too difficult. Also not sure whether the i in this video is less than 100% or Doug is just taking the piss and being a prick. Probably the latter. He'd probably say a 2CV is a decrepit sh!tbox because it's tippy, slow and under powered and completely miss the point...

Dude speaking fact

lfa aint a match for the potato aztek

Or probably he's just a Breaking Bad fan

Oof, emotional damage.

😀

Had the Peugeot iOn version for some years as secondary car, I loved it just as well! Could fit a washing machine inside when the seats were folded.

Yup! Thanks to its fast-charging capabilities, you can _technically_ cross the entirety of the European continent in one. Slowly, but not unreasonably slowly.

Apparently people keep it running / upgrade it with simple battery swaps. Instead many new EVs won't move as soon as the manufacturer's cloud servers stop working

Stockholm syndrome

​@@bitscorpion4687Nonsense

They have.this genre of vehicle is just starting to take off. The Dacia Spring for example.

It's a shame Mitsubishi have left the small car market here in Australia altogether.

There are millions of people both in the US and around the world that would find a car like the iMiEV completely adequate for their driving needs. With newer battery technology it would make it even better. Most people think they need 300 miles or 500km of range but most don’t. A big battery car will sit around doing 30 miles a day for most of its life. Wasteful. As more and more evs enter rental fleets the argument for owning a big battery car get weaker and weaker. Personally, I rent Model 3’s for longer trips the half dozen times a year I make them.

​@@MattExzyagree...

​@@jamesroyston2378all that we got was just downgraded electric cars like this one.

As an owner of one, might I ask how you got the cells replaced? I may need that soon....

We never got the ICE version, we only get the ICE step up, the Mirage.

​@@fortheloveofnoise9298There is a Peugeot version called the iON as well

I recall the Citroen version being advertised at about £12k when they stopped production.

lol. People in the US call it 'I meev" too, it just depends on the individual.

​@@robsmall6466and the Citroen version the cZero

Ikr...damn

Americans are the kind of people why wish death on people for driving bland and pathetic cars

Was about to post the same thing.

Doug misses things like this all of the time. One of his quirks I guess.

@@dwensinger true. I guess it feels different to "miss" something vs. rallying against a thing that was done but was not in fact actually done. If you can see it in the video you can see it real life.

Doug might need bi-focals way earlier than he suspects....or he's making mistakes on purpose to get more comments.

Doug is an asshole. We drove our 2012 i-Miev from Chicago to Santa Monica on Route 66 in 2017. Performed perfectly. With side trips it was 5893 miles there and back. Still have it. Most reliable car I have ever owned.

Not all of them though had the high voltage plug though I think. Some only had the standard home charge port.

Was it enjoyable to cruise it around in crackhead Portland?

I had a 500e too! That was a fun car to drive. I lived in LA and that thing on the freeways or in the canyons was wild.

Still have my 2012 i-MiEV and love it for all the reasons you state. The RU-vid presenter here simply doesn't get it and is annoying fool.

This car isn't peppy nor is this a decent car in any way

⁠@@yellowsnowman9157, wow! Aren’t you a negative fellow. Good job keeping that RU-vid comment section stereotypes alive 😂

I don't know man, but in my eyes, this is just a Japanese Tata Nano

@@jc_47dude I was thinking the exact same thing

The side profile is almost identical! 😂

you’re crazy, that’s an insult to the A-Class

@@jc_47exactly

And in Norway you have Level 2 charging right away as there everything is 220-240v

And here I thought I had it bad with 90kph speed limits outside of cities. Can't imagine tolerating any less

@@BichaelStevens That is a very car centric approach. If you look at the average speed on your odometer i would be surprised if its above 60km/hr. All the intersections / red lights really eat into the average speed. I did a 8000km road trip last month and averaged 54km/hr. But 80km/hr is the general speed limit. Doesnt matter if the road is a one lane rural road or a multi lane straight road. It is the safest roads in Europe, so hard to argue with the results EDIT: I drove this car quite a bit back in the day. I think you could expect around 90-100km range in the winter and that was if you kept the cabin heat so cold that you had winter clothes inside of your car.

33% over 15 years might not be too bad. Apparently it's cheap to refresh. A Hyundai Ioniq battery refresh is $60k!!

You enjoy ugly, very cheaply built cars that have garbage range, handle like trash, and are extremely slow?

I will agree, this car would be very useful where I live. Short commutes and the ease of driving is what we need. But he is right tho, this car is very ugly to look at 😅

imagine patronizing Doug's car site by selling your car there then he makes a video calling your car a piece of crap joke before it even sells

Because all this guy does is just shit on practical cars which actually do their job as, "cars". He just likes shitty supercars and the like because "AAAAA V16 and 2920092921HP" I mean LOOK AT ALL THOSE HORSES WOW!!! FUCK THIS Mirage, Fuck this Camry, Fuck this Miev, so darn practical. Since I watched this guys Mirage review I knew he had no sense. Every single comment about it was JUST negative, you can't give a Science test to a Finance student and expect great score, to just call him "nah you're retarded fuck off". I don't get why is he even using the same score criteria that goes for ultra luxury cars and useless sport cars for practical cars. Obviously bro, nobody is turning heads at a Corolla or Camry, that's the darn point, don't blame them, it's literally how it's made. I randomly clicked to see if he has changed and fuck no lol.

If it had a bmw or porsche badge his delivery would be much more positive

Not the aesthetic. Disgusting

Yeah but… nobody bought it…

This is exactly what they should NOT be, the entire reason Tesla was originally successful is because their cars were way sportier than anything else on the market at the time. You're probably salty EV's don't suck as much as you wish they would

@@drumnbasssakuga9352 not sportier, more luxurious and longer range, the original roadster was sporty tho

@@RockyFoxxowo almost anything is sportier than this and the Leaf, and I’d argue any Tesla is sportier than your average commuter car like a Honda CR-V.

My wife has the Up's Skoda Citigo twin. She once got 70MPG from it driving the ten miles home from work. Consequently the road tax is the same as an i-MiEV; nothing. In comparison a Gas Guzzler from the same year could now cost £695 a year.

"absolutely enough"... 🤣 That sounds like a very European mindset! My wife's Pacifica PHEV can do nearly 50km on battery alone, but can still seat 7 people AND drive more than 400 miles on gas.

@@jasono2139 Interestingly they used the drivetrain from the i-MiEV in the Mitsubishi Outlander which was the best selling PHEV in Europe for five years. We no longer get any Chryslers here although the Jeep Grand Cherokee will soon be available as a plug in hybrid.

@@Adi-bo5do yeah... Most people NEED a bigger car with more seats and a longer range. Trading all of those to eek out a pathetic $2 in savings every 1,000 miles is called "stupidity". 🤦

​have you tried parking in a cramped street? Not fun at all. Smaller cars are easier to park

Doug buying a CarMax would be an amazing video! Even if he just worked at one for a day.

​​@@EightPieceBox his range rover was from CarMax

@@KilowattTheFurrywow, really? How dense are you not to realize folks that watch this channel would know that?

@@ozarkliving7263 Well he didn't know at least lol

I've got an even slower car and managed two speeding tickets so far. With enough determination and carelessness, anything is possible.

has highway speed. can get 100km in one charge on highway. that pretty much covers 99% of all driving needs.

The roll on acceleration was quite good, it had good pickup once it was going.

Agree with you and also, unlike todays's cars it gave you more interior room. Today's cars give you similar room with triple the vehicle mass and double the length. Plus it looks keen!

Yup, TBH 90% of city trips could probably be accomplished in something like this.

@@riskinhos I don't get with cars like this why people whine about the short range. Where are you driving it? It's a runabout for local trips. If it fully charges in 7 hours that's FINE. I think a lot of the attitude is from people who have to travel hours across poorly planned cities to do so many simple things.

Yes I can agree with most of that but mitsubishi has always built the cheapest in terms of quality compared to rivals. Even Japanese rivals; Honda, Nissan, Subaru are just better built.

Exactly, unfortunately most people forget what they actually need from an efficient city car. They think these are made to travel in the wild and conquer the world in one charge. 😂 Especially for the time, I think this car is fairly good.

Doug really selling this one hard

thumbs down for using the worthless word "actually"....twice.

It looks like a car, but it’s a Mirage.

A lot of weird crappy cars are sold on cars and bids for collectible reasons. Although they need to be in very good condition. There's other people like Doug that buy such cars. 😋

Not everyone can say your ride was dunked on by Doug.

Says it's in San Diego, so I wouldn't doubt it's owned by him

@@80s_Boombox_Collector Owned, operated complete with a RU-vid advertising agency.

he is biased AF

It looks like an awful ride dude. You can love it all you want, it was being sold for $30,000 new with abysmal speed, handling, range, features, etc. You love it that's great, there's people that love their Yugos too.

Not original. Painfully obvious. Take your stupid comments elsewhere and make millions of normal people happy

You wouldn't happen to be in the Lower Mainland of BC because that was probably me

It was designed with a single wiper, but the North American market models had a wider bodyshell by about 4 inches. (You can even see where they had to put basically a filler section to fill the gaps between the dash and the side of the car in photos of the interior between the LHD European (which used the standard width bodyshell but a new dash design) and the North American models (which used the LHD European dash design).)

@@wilsonofcanada no, it was in Montréal (Québec) on a highway.

It cracked me up how Mitsubishi half-assed everything from bumper to bumper! I mean, they couldn't even stamp a lighting logo on the charge port releases! That's hilarious how lazy their designers were.

@@largol33t12 right!

I could totally see Aging Wheels scooping it up too. It's got the same rating as a Yugo!

Aging Wheels just dropped a review of the Mirai: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rtZQLUtckS4.html

@@mattb4721 I watched it the day he uploaded it, I love Robert’s videos! I think I also commented on that video but thank you for the heads up dude!

I guess you were a City Cop. The i-MiEV actually makes sense for areas that are mainly pedestrianised.

Non of us knew this. Thanks for sharing

what did you seek these ?

Ahhhhh - I thought I cracked the code lol, thanks y’all!

That explains everything about Mitsubishi as a whole. Besides, looking at their profit margins and their corporation. They don't need to make or sell cars to stay in business. They are profitable in their other business ventures.

You ought to feel ashamed for knowing this.

It was from 2009... Most cars built from that time are still around. 🤦 Hell... There's still Chevy Cavaliers driving around from the 90s. That doesn't mean they're a good or reliable car.

@@jasono2139 The Cavaliers are reliable though. They're called the automotive cockroaches. Common and ugly, but hard to kill. The same is true for the Cobalt honestly. It uses the exact same powertrain as the late model Cavaliers.

It's as old as my Insight. That thing also goes strong still.

@@SkylineFTW97 yup, they were the cheaply made, cheaply built cars of the day. Even if they had reliability issues, there was enough of them that they'd be around darn near forever... Despite having some of the highest death counts per mile driven of any other car on the road.

@@jasono2139 Chevy Cavaliers are fine cars. Along with Ford Escorts, Dodge K-cars (Plymouth Reliant). Nothing wrong with those beasts. Ok. Body rust, but the engines ran for ever and the trannies last well. Cheap to fix with lots sold and in the junkyard if that makes one happy for parts...

"Due to very generous policies for electric cars" There are also very punitive polices on ICE there I believe! 🙂 With taxes, the price of a Ford Mustang GT is around quadruple of the US price I believe? Even for economy cars, something like a 1.4-1.5L Golf would be taxed quite heavily?

@@TassieLorenzo When it comes to petrol and diesel engines, the bigger the engine is the bigger the tax. These engines are taxed more aggressively than other drivetrains. More enviormentally friendly cars are cheaper, to make people buy them. An example would be the Ford Explorer, since it is an hybrid, it is a lot cheaper to buy and own than it would if it were a big V8. Don't get me wrong, the Explorer retails for over $100,000 here, and like any other car, it's probably a lot more expensive here than in the US, but a V8 would retail closer to $200,000 - $300,000. Even the fuel cost is ridiculous here (over $8 USD per gallon) making electric cars even more relevant. I hope this answered your question, I have a tendency to rant a bit!

😂😂😂

My parents did too, however ours was bought used and bought only last summer. They still love it though!

Doug really needs to review himself.

Nope, you remember it incorrectly. In 2010 or 2011, Estonia sold CO2 emission quota to Mitsubishi Corporation. As a result of this deal, Estonia received 507 i-MiEVs for social workers of local government, plus charging stations etc. So basically no cost to the taxpayers. Unused CO2 quota was traded for these cars. Pretty solid deal.

​@@ollu7they still got horrible cars

@@ollu7 Estonia's CO2/capita is super high tho -- so why would they have spare credits?

@@concinnus quotas for 2008-2012 were based on 1990 data. Back then, it was the end of the soviet era and Estonia's emissions were a lot higher. Same goes for Latvia, Poland etc, those countries have also made deals with unused quota.

​@@ollu7The quotas are total nonsense on their face.

Came to say this lol. Good eye.

Glad someone else spotted this.