I love the Lamborghini colors on the Teslas I've been seeing around here lately, but the design aesthetic isn't exactly charming to my eye when the hardtop is in place. The front-end styling is more successful than the view from the rear - it reminds me a bit of the 70's fiberglass kit-car bodies that were designed to fit on a VW bug chassis. The car looked okay before, but what is it about it that makes the car look wrong when the top is on yet so elegant when it's off?
The car falls on the spartan side of the design equation (as is traditional for Lotus-influenced cars), and I certainly like the fact that it's electrical powered. If I owned one of these I'd probably get used to its appearance very quickly, but I can't help but think that Fisker's Karma Hybrid will capture the imagination of the public a little more thoroughly. The idea of an all-electric vehicle is exciting to me but impractical because I do a lot of long-distance driving, and even a quick trip into town to run errands equates to 80-150 miles over the course of the day.
