I got a Titanium 1LT just like this two weeks ago. I'd post pictures, but I like your house and driveway better and the car looks the same anyway. Three year lease, $2100 out the door including 1st payment, $225 a month. We are keeping our Honda Fit and replacing a 20 year old Accord with 1/4 million miles (great car, sorry to see it go, but we have squeezed most of the juice out of it). Between the various subsidies and the operating and maintenance cost savings over the other cars it is only costing us about $40 a month to have the new Spark instead of keeping the Accord.
I'm really pleased with the car so far. It's not up to the standards of a Honda Fit in about seven different ways, but the powertrain is amazing and that makes up for a lot. Enough so that I often prefer to drive the Spark. I hope it can keep up the good first impression.
The last "American" cars in our whole extended family were a Citation X-11, a Vega, and a Ford LTD wagon that caught fire ... twice. None of us has bought an "American" car for the subsequent 40 years. The US makers basically turned away an entire generation in the 70s and 80s. Just being on a Chevy sales lot was a bit of an out of body experience, not somewhere I ever pictured myself. But the Spark EV is an interesting car, I thought I'd like to test drive one just for the experience. I will be more than delighted if GM has finally pulled it's head out and figured out how to make good cars, it would be great to have decent stuff made here (I know, Korean, but the motors are made here). I'm hoping for the best on this. People seem to like their Volt's, and I drove a Sonic rental a few months ago that was not bad at all, the first small GM car I've driven that wasn't icky. That said, 3 year lease, just in case.
A criticism, for all the flash and splash of the displays, there is not really much information. It would be nice to have actual state of charge, and mileage since charge (not just a re-settable trip millage), an extra trip odo would be good too. The energy history graph is particularly bad, the X axis seems backwards, and the Y axis labels are too coarse to be useful. The energy flow animation is just stupid. It duplicates information already on the other display and does it less well. Surely they could have used the memory for something more valuable. Also, the energy information screens idea of mi/kwh does not seem to agree with the "drive cycle" screen that appears when you turn off the car.
I'd also like to be able to get at the charge/discharge data to import it to a computer to track. Is there a way to do this? It seems like onstar can get some of it.
