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Yahoo
02-06-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
At $1,900, Could This 2011 Nissan Have You Turning Over An Old Leaf?
Today's Nice Price or No Dice Nissan Leaf never had great range due to its relatively small battery, and issues with this one's battery have cut that number to what the seller says is "around town" miles. Could that still make this electric a viable contender? James May recently made a couple of trips to Southern California to support awareness of his namesake booze, James Gin. Documenting these adventures has been Lucy Brown, the head of the Gin maker's marketing arm and famous cheese-avoider. On multiple occasions in their videos, both James and Lucy have commented on the massive portion sizes of meals in the U.S. In fact, both have noted that everything seems bigger here, and that is typically true. Consider the 1986 Ford F-350 Crew Cab Dually pickup we discussed last Friday. With its for-doors, long bed, and extra-wide booty, it's bigger and more roomy than James' pub. The only thing that could be considered not-so-grand on that Ford was its $8,000 asking price. That earned the big truck an expansive 84% Nice Price win. Read more: 2025 Cadillac Escalade IQ Is All About Big Numbers Last Friday's F-350 may have been large and in charge, but today's 2011 Nissan Leaf can only claim half that statement. With its 110-horsepower AC electric motor and 24.15 kWh lithium-ion battery pack under the floor, this Nissan is small and fully in need of charge when its electrons are expended. Nissan introduced the Leaf in late 2010 for the 2011 model year, earning the car the distinction of being the first mass-produced battery electric vehicle (BEV) on the market. Many other manufacturers followed with electric versions of existing internal combustion engine cars, all in an effort to meet California's 2011 zero-emission mandate. Nissan was the only major carmaker to introduce a ground-up electric to achieve compliance. The introduction of the long-range Tesla Model 3 two years later made all of these "compliance cars" feel out of date, and of them, only the Leaf survives in production to this day, gaining range with bigger batteries and going more mainstream with less weird styling. When new, this first-year Leaf could go somewhere between 80 and 100 miles between plug-in sessions, which is not particularly great by today's standards. Being an early electric, its charging speeds were pretty pathetic as well, requiring overnight sessions even on 220-volt power. According to the seller, a battery issue has compromised this Leaf's range even further, with it now pooping out at "about 41 miles." It's quite amusing that they claim the range to be "about 41 miles" rather than just "40 miles." That extra mile is really the cherry on the top, I guess. The ad doesn't go into detail regarding what has gone wrong with the car that is causing the range to be cut in half, but the culprit is likely the battery pack. Used packs are available for these cars, but, like buying a used engine for transplant into an ICE car, that's a roll of the dice that might end up in the same place but around $2,501 poorer. Perhaps it would be better to leave the Leaf as is and use it, as the seller suggests, "around town." According to the ad, the car is in "Excellent" condition other than the constrained range, having done a mere 78,310 miles. Nissan built the Leaf to a price, meaning that some of the interior components are somewhat chintzy, but it does have a lot of comfort and convenience features like power windows and locks and a CD stereo. It also features some pretty cool blue lights inside, which, when it was new, was a common feature among many electric cars. The exterior, in dark metallic red, looks to be in solid shape, although the expired HOV lane stickers on the corners are a blight. There's no word on the age of the tires, but they don't appear bald or anything in the pictures. The interior is also clean and seemingly well-maintained. This is a one-owner car and comes with a clean title. The asking price is $1,900. That gets you a comfortable and cheap-to-run car whose only constraint is that it has the battery capacity of an old man's bladder. For someone with a short commute to work or who just needs to get to the local grocery store once or twice a week, this could be the perfect ride. Alternatively, it could be a fun project to buy and fix with a replacement battery reinstating the lost range. What do you think about this opportunity and that $1,900 price? Does that feel like a great deal to get into the electric car space and save some money on short commutes? Or do this Nissan's problems mean it's a Leaf that's better left alone? You decide! Nice Price or No Dice: San Francisco Bay Area, California, Craigslist, or go here if the ad disappears. Help me out with NPOND. Hit me up at robemslie@ and send me a fixed-price tip. Remember to include your commenter handle. Want more like this? Join the Jalopnik newsletter to get the latest auto news sent straight to your inbox... Read the original article on Jalopnik.
Daily Mail
20-05-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mail
'Hate club': Girlfriend of photographer David Bailey's son Sascha set to write tell-all memoir dishing the dirt on her time with Tommy Robinson and his fellow 'free speech activists'
Lucy Brown, who once stood shoulder to shoulder with far-Right activist Tommy Robinson, is getting ready to settle some old scores – and she's not pulling any punches. I can reveal that the girlfriend of art dealer Sascha Bailey, son of celebrated photographer David Bailey, is to publish an explosive memoir. 'I'm writing a book about my time working in free speech activism that will probably p*** everyone off – which is what I'm hoping it will do,' she tells me. Lucy has previously said that the behaviour of Robinson, who was jailed for 18 months last year for contempt of court, 'changed after the fame and money started rolling in'. She said the former English Defence League leader became 'very nasty and misogynistic'. Her memoir, working title Hate Club, promises a no-holds-barred account of the chaos among the so-called free-speech warriors she once worked alongside. They include Robinson, Milo Yiannopoulos – who ran rapper Kanye West 's US presidential campaign last year – Lauren Southern, Gavin McInnes, Sargon of Akkad, and Count Dankula. 'Everyone was a narcissist,' she adds. 'It was terrible. Those people are a mess.' Lucy, 34, says the book will draw on her experience organising the ill-fated Day for Freedom event in London in 2018, including never-before-seen footage she shot at the time. 'We tried to make it all free speech and punk and edgy and then it all blew up,' she recalls. Now pregnant with her first child with Sascha, Lucy takes a very different view on the cause she once championed. 'I hate free speech [absolutism] . . . it's just a stupid concept that flits and changes depending on whether you like the person,' she says. 'I don't think, for example, Kneecap should be able to say that you should kill your Tory MP on stage, considering what happened to [murdered Tory MP] David Amess, and I couldn't give a toss that they're getting cancelled.' Rather than trusting publishers to tell her story, she's opting to self-publish. A bad break for poor Benedict? The greatest mystery at the Cannes Film Festival was why Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch had to wear a sling on his left arm. The Hollywood actor, 48, sported a black sling that matched his dinner suit on the red carpet for the Sunday evening premiere of Wes Anderson's new comedy The Phoenician Scheme, which also stars Scarlett Johansson and Tom Hanks. He was joined by his wife, the theatre director Sophie Hunter, 47. And yesterday, Cumberbatch wore a patterned sling that matched his brown jacket at a photocall. His spokesman declines to comment on the injury. Age-old problem for Nicole, 57 Nicole Kidman, who received the Women In Motion Award at the Cannes Film Festival, says she faces a constant battle against ageism in the business. 'We get judged very harshly,' the Hollywood star, 57, tells me. 'You'll have a big film, then suddenly you're in your 40s and you haven't followed it up, or you've made some choices that didn't succeed. You're, like, 'But I'm not over. Please still keep investing in me.' That's important, resisting ageism. 'I've got a wealth of knowledge now and experience, yet I somehow have been cast out, or I'm not the cool person, or I'm not the one. So, it's always going, 'No, no, you can have a second to third chapter.' That's an important message.' Charlotte's not weedy... she rips them out fast TV presenter Charlotte Hawkins has a secret cure for the pressures of showbusiness. 'Whenever I get stressed, I take it out on the weeds in my garden,' she tells me at RHS Chelsea Flower Show's VIP preview. 'I know I give the appearance of being cool, calm and collected, but I do sometimes get wound up. It's therapy to me. I go outside and attack the weeds really aggressively.' Charlotte, who turned 50 on Friday, lives in Surrey with husband Mark and daughter Ella. Miriam's heartbreak over Stoppard affair When Miriam Stoppard was betrayed by her husband of 20 years, the celebrated playwright Sir Tom Stoppard, with actress Felicity Kendal, she was the model of quiet dignity. But now the doctor and journalist has revealed that her Oscar-winning husband's affair with The Good Life star plunged her into years of mourning. 'I never felt jealous, I never felt angry, but I did feel grief,' she tells Saga magazine. 'I grieved for three years, but I was grieving for the idea of how my life would be and who I would grow old with. And that was kind of chopped out of my life.' Kendal was married to American theatre director Michael Rudman when she began her affair with Sir Tom, whom she first met while starring in his West End play The Real Thing in 1982. Their relationship continued until 1998 when Kendal returned to her ex-husband, with whom she has a son, Jacob. On his controversial former TV show, Jeremy Kyle never hesitated to tackle family matters. Nor did his father, Patrick. Kyle, whose mother died in 2017, reveals on Mark Wogan's Spooning podcast that his father's dying wish in 2019 was to know if his son's then-fiancee, Victoria, was 'the One'. He told Kyle: 'When I get upstairs, and it won't be long, I'm going to get a massive telling-off from your mother because I have been chasing women around the care home for six years, so I need to give her some good news.' Jeremy married Victoria in 2021.
