The unremarkable Chevrolet Spark, gasoline edition, becomes a desirable, almost cheap urban commuter car when you swap in an electric motor. What’s more, with the Spark EV, the smartphone-based navigation starts to fulfill the promise of significant apps running off your phone and streamed to the car’s LCD display. With the gas-powered Spark, people say, “It’s easy to park and it’s cheap.” With the 2014 Spark electric people will add, “It’s fun to drive and cheap… for an EV.”
The Chevrolet Spark is a Honda Fitwannabe, only smaller and cheaper — both are subcompacts with decent back seats. With the gasoline models the Spark is noisy (by 2014 standards), accelerates slowly, and bounces on rough roads. Meanwhile, the best-in-class Fit loses a little of its spunk going from gas to electric, the Spark EV gets quicker and more fun to drive despite lugging around an extra 600 pounds over the gasoline model.
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