I blame @NathanFillion for this

I drive a 25 year old Mitsubishi Lancer SL that's a little worse for wear. Suprisingly (for other people, not me; I love my car), it can still do up to 8 kilometers per liter. And that's with me driving like a maniac--I tried taking it easy for about a whole month, once, and I managed to get it up to about 10 kilometers per liter. This is in the city, by the way.

My car, which I've called Alice long before it was mine (I'm her third driver), has definitely seen better days, and while I have no plans of ditching her, I have been thinking about getting a new (or newer) car to supplement her. (Well, mostly, the plan is to get a family vehicle, and keep Alice for myself, to terrorize pedestrians and other motorists with.) Originally, I was thinking about a used Evo IV, or maybe an Impreza STi; lately, the target has been a brand-new Mitsubishi ASX GLS SE.

Well, no longer. Thanks to this tweet by @NathanFillion (What, seriously? You don't know Mal-freaking-Reynolds?), I have now reconsidered my choices.

Now, I want the Arcimoto Pulse (image links to more pics).

Despite the maker's goals, it'll cost me even more to own and operate this vehicle than it would for me to just keep Alice serviceable for the next, oh, I don't know, 5 years maybe? They're estimating most US-based customers will save at least a thousand USD every year in fuel alone. I ran the numbers on the calculator they provide on their site, and my savings come out a little over half their projections.

And that's discounting custom duties, importation tariffs and whatever the hell else I'm going to need to pay on top of the sticker price, unless Arcimoto sells them here directly (which, while possible, is highly unlikely--still asked them when that's going to happen, though).

Still... Damn it, I want it, and I want it now. I don't care that it's currently even more impractical for me, or that it'll be practical only for a few years (by my reckoning).

Captain Mal Reynolds has decreed it to be desirable, and I agree.

What? You'd dare oppose Captain Reynolds?