When Quinn asked why the ac compressor can’t be used as a heater I was waiting for Alec to pop out of nowhere and explain “if only for the reversing valve”
The collab we didn’t expect but welcome all the more! Do all my favourite UA-camrs know each other? Aging Wheels, Technology Connections, DankPods, Techmoan, Ashens….
Aging Wheels also appeared in the CarTrek series on Tavarish' channel. And if you like old tech you should also check out Nostalgia Nerd, he has some really amazing videos.
I know that giant flashy touch screens are "the way of the future" as ordained by pretty much every auto manufacturer now, but they're much less safe than physical, tactile controls (i.e. BUTTONS) that you can feel and activate without taking your eyes off the road.
I've no clue how you've done it so soon after the iPad review but your content has been fantastic lately, this is now my favorite video of yours and I've been watching you for years! Don't think i've ever laughed this much at a car video, was an absolute joy to watch your guys's back and forth. Snazzy indeed!
I found it so jarring when I realised that this WASN'T one of Robert's Codas my mind cannot comprehend that there exists regular unmodified prototype codas that can be found and purchased by people who aren't Robert
@@theproducertm Refreshed Model S still does. S and X are more expensive, luxury vehicles. For the Model 3, they simplified as much as they possibly could to produce them as fast as possible and having your speed at a side glance wasn't unheard of. The great majority of owners just got used to it, no big deal.
@@theproducertm Which version did you test drive? Have you had a chance to take it out in the back roads? Have you played with the acceleration and steering settings? I'm aware you can't really give me an informed opinion on one pedal driving since it takes some time getting used to before finding it amazing.
I wonder what Coda's profit margins on each sale were. If this car could be sold for 25k while keeping the company solvent, I could imagine a world where this car would have taken the mass EV market by storm while Tesla occupied the luxury EV market. At 25k, Coda sales would likely not have impacted Tesla sales. Lots of people really just wanted a car that was like their old car, but that ran on electricity. I also think that 40k price tag had some taxes added on. Like a greed tax and an early adopter tax. I think the two words to define this car are: "Wasted potential."
"slaps roof" this coda car is so futuristic that you wouldn't know if it was from the future cause it had the designs of olden days. Modern camouflage baby
No, I'm not sorry for saying this. Tesla's UI is problematic for multiple reasons. So is the Coda, _but_ this is what's important: it's familiar for veteran drivers. I'd frankly take a vehicle with _buttons_ all over the place where I would know what to press when driving than interacting with an oversized tablet.
Love how the Avenues is the handling proving ground for the Coda (and almost bricking it in SLC Cemetery = priceless). Seems like a fun little city runabout.
5:15 As someone who has an engineering degree and is the child of Vietnamese immigrants that owned several nail salons, that comment really caught me off-guard lmao
Now Robert knows what the coolant lines of a stock Coda look like. I'm starting to wonder how much of Robert's problems with his Coda is due to it being hacked back together from a CVT monstrosity. I'm going to assume not much. I can't help but think this will be FAR from the last we'll see from that Coda.
Arguably, the Tesla having a touch screen, which even gets changed on updates, is a major negative compared to the Coda. With simple buttons you can just reach and operate them on muscle memory, even while driving. Whereas with a touch screen, you have to look at the screen to see where you are tapping. If you manage to build muscle memory for it, an update can completely and irreversibly break this. For this, and the better battery chemistry, I'd have picked the Coda if given those two choices. Now I only consider cars with physical buttons operating the car's features, the entertainment unit should be separate and preferably upgradeable.
I remember the Coda store at Westfield mall in Century City West LA. It got replaced by the tesla store and subsequently became the highest grossing store they have.
2:10 They also designed the Norwegian NSB Type72, currently operating mainly in Stavanger on the Jæren line; and in the east in assorted roles around Oslo.
Insta360 needs to work on their lens warp correction. Most of the time it's fine, but there was a shot in the ad segment where you could really see it's shortcomings in how it made that Hummer look waaay out of proportion.
Not sure if you're gonna read this but I have some things to say about the current electric vehicles. They all are trying to be like tesla. Just like all other smartphones are trying to be iPhone. You don't need to be any of that stuff. You don't need to have cameras for mirrors, don't need to have big touch screens, onboard navigation which sucks btw because how slow and inaccurate them being sometimes, doors that open weird, or self driving mode etc. None of that. Take 1995 Honda Civic, remove ICE put Electric motor and put a decent range. That's literally it. You wouldn't need a giant screen and navigation display to find closest gas station, you would mpst likely use google maps for it or any other navigation app in your phone. Hence, you shouldn't need the same hardware to find a charging station. Complexity = Bad Be a 1995 Honda Civic Electric.
The issue with that approach is that nobody makes a 95 civic. Any new model car has a giant touch screen and complex internals. It's not an electric thing it's just a car thing.
I’ve said this before, but I love unscripted Quinn. There’s level of unhinged and just pure spontaneity that is so entertaining to watch and listen to.
Being 2012, people were of course leery about electric cars. Aside from the vehicle's attributes, a *Chinese* electric car was just a bridge too far. And a Chinese vehicle it was, even if they went through the motions of "assembling" (twiddling a few bolts) here in the USA.
I think the true reason electric vehicles were unable to take off until recently is because they kept making them ugly. as. shit. in an attempt to look futuristic, or in the case of vehicles like Prius, appeal to more markets by combining sedans and small SUVs, instead of making their current vehicles electric.
If you ever want to see a clash in different UA-camr styles watch that walk around of the car. One is trying to be a car journalist and talk about the features of the Coda, the other is just a bloke showing off his car. Very funny.
I wish the Koda was the breakout car instead of the Tesla. It's just a car that happens to be electric, which is all you actually need in a car. Instead of pushing self driving tech, they focus more on the R and D of the car itself, meaning more affordable and dependable cars.
@@archive3do769 after the federal tax incentives it was about $13,000 brand new. Range in good weather was 75-125 miles. It was poorly built. Not very comfortable and had some quirks. But I didn't have to buy gas!
@@keithremelts36 not terrible if you live in an area with short burst drives and charging stations I suppose, especially in 2014 when gas wasn't cheap either. Kia was selling overstock Souls for like 9k/10k around that time with $200 gas cards. So you definitely didn't come out too bad it sounds like.
Someone has done a MCU2 upgrade on their Model S, but it does look like that battery has some serious degradation reading only 76 miles of range at 80%.
I really wish these things got off the ground, the potential for them was huge at the time! Even by todays standards advertising an electric car with batteries that don't degrade as much and are significantly more environment friendly not to mention more slave labor friendly would be absolutely huge!
So Robert found the only other person who knows what a Koda is lol. I think someone needs to start a Koda registry for north America to see just how many are still around.
@@snazzy honestly I think it looks just fine, it’s just naturalistic. Which is honestly what I want from a car review, I don’t want neon grass or endless depth to the dust on the car.
We forgot to film our intro, so Robert just appears out of nowhere-fitting though-he does it in real life. Thanks to @AgingWheels!
Robert is an awesome dude.
When he said x3 the look on my face went DARK. Until I realized it was a insta 360
You should do a tech adventure video and try and disable the speed limiter.
I love how he just pops up like yea, Playa this my car...we gonna race? *playfully tosses keys*
When Quinn asked why the ac compressor can’t be used as a heater I was waiting for Alec to pop out of nowhere and explain “if only for the reversing valve”
If only we had Alec! Haha
@@snazzy Through the magic of buying two of them!
Omg that wouldn't been perfect, I clearly remember that line LOL
And thanks to robert owning multiple codas, he could show us by the magic of having two of them!
Aging Wheels is essentially the greatest Coda collector in history
And the onliest
If they made it to our shores, I would hunt one down LOL 🤣
Don't forget Wheego Life collector!
@@sergiofreitas9368 With his own personal Wheego tech support!
Aaaaand he bought Quinn's Coda.
Seeing your Camera Operator tossed around in the back at 14:17 is very hilarious
I love the enthusiasm Robert has when he talks about the gauges in the Coda
He probably owns the only Coda in existence with fully working guages.
The collab we didn’t expect but welcome all the more! Do all my favourite UA-camrs know each other? Aging Wheels, Technology Connections, DankPods, Techmoan, Ashens….
There was a time techmoan collabed with 8 bit guy, I think
But yeah, they should all come together and make an electric shitbox video
The NerdCubed videos with Ashens are gold too, I used to watch Daniel all the time back in the day.
Aging Wheels also appeared in the CarTrek series on Tavarish' channel. And if you like old tech you should also check out Nostalgia Nerd, he has some really amazing videos.
I can say that DankPods watches Aging Wheels
@@somedonkus69420 Oh how I wish Daniel had become more popular instead of slowly declining.
I know that giant flashy touch screens are "the way of the future" as ordained by pretty much every auto manufacturer now, but they're much less safe than physical, tactile controls (i.e. BUTTONS) that you can feel and activate without taking your eyes off the road.
I've no clue how you've done it so soon after the iPad review but your content has been fantastic lately, this is now my favorite video of yours and I've been watching you for years! Don't think i've ever laughed this much at a car video, was an absolute joy to watch your guys's back and forth. Snazzy indeed!
I love the chaotic energy of this video. Great video as always quinn!
Glad you enjoyed!
it's low effort november!
I found it so jarring when I realised that this WASN'T one of Robert's Codas
my mind cannot comprehend that there exists regular unmodified prototype codas that can be found and purchased by people who aren't Robert
Me too.
It is Robert's now, he recently bought it from Quinn.
Resistance is futile, all your Codas shall belong to Robert!
Big advantage of the Coda: You get a proper dashboard, not that touchscreen-junk.
And the battery chemistry that lasts.
Great to see CODA owner's club meeting up.
Aging wheels twice in one day? best thanks giving ever
The Coda has door handles that have outlasted Tesla's several times.
Robert had to replace the Coda's door handles too. They also had a bad design.
@@danam2584Still mechanical so hes able to access his own car if the electrics are completely dead.
@@Altezza1999they are mechanical but they literally break more somehow. It's astonishing.
The collaboration we didn't know we needed, didn't deserve, but goddamn is it good.
What I find funny is that the original Model S looked so much better than the current models, back then it actually kind of looked like a car!
I actually prefer the facelift front, by far. That original grille thing always looked weird to me.
It had a freakin gage cluster. Superior to current Teslas in many ways. I'm baffled.
@@theproducertm
Refreshed Model S still does. S and X are more expensive, luxury vehicles. For the Model 3, they simplified as much as they possibly could to produce them as fast as possible and having your speed at a side glance wasn't unheard of. The great majority of owners just got used to it, no big deal.
@@gabrielgingras814 Ah, I wasn't aware. I only ever test drove a model 3 and was somewhat disappointed.
@@theproducertm
Which version did you test drive? Have you had a chance to take it out in the back roads? Have you played with the acceleration and steering settings? I'm aware you can't really give me an informed opinion on one pedal driving since it takes some time getting used to before finding it amazing.
I wonder what Coda's profit margins on each sale were. If this car could be sold for 25k while keeping the company solvent, I could imagine a world where this car would have taken the mass EV market by storm while Tesla occupied the luxury EV market. At 25k, Coda sales would likely not have impacted Tesla sales. Lots of people really just wanted a car that was like their old car, but that ran on electricity. I also think that 40k price tag had some taxes added on. Like a greed tax and an early adopter tax. I think the two words to define this car are: "Wasted potential."
Snazzy labs and aging wheels??? This is amazing!
Love to see Robert on the channel. He's an awesome guy. Probably the best person to talk about the coda with.
I mean the *total* number of people in the country with first-hand knowledge of everything Coda can probably be counted on two hands lol
@@Twinspinner pretty much lol
Always great to have Robert to show up.
"slaps roof" this coda car is so futuristic that you wouldn't know if it was from the future cause it had the designs of olden days. Modern camouflage baby
Just need Technology Connections and the holy trinity is complete!
I don't know what it is about the coda that makes it so appealing to me but I need one
No, I'm not sorry for saying this. Tesla's UI is problematic for multiple reasons. So is the Coda, _but_ this is what's important: it's familiar for veteran drivers. I'd frankly take a vehicle with _buttons_ all over the place where I would know what to press when driving than interacting with an oversized tablet.
The ending comparison sequence is pure gold!
Love how the Avenues is the handling proving ground for the Coda (and almost bricking it in SLC Cemetery = priceless). Seems like a fun little city runabout.
5:15 As someone who has an engineering degree and is the child of Vietnamese immigrants that owned several nail salons, that comment really caught me off-guard lmao
Now Robert knows what the coolant lines of a stock Coda look like.
I'm starting to wonder how much of Robert's problems with his Coda is due to it being hacked back together from a CVT monstrosity. I'm going to assume not much. I can't help but think this will be FAR from the last we'll see from that Coda.
Foreshadowing! Robert bought it from Quinn in his video today!
@@bradensmith888 He did, poor bastard needs an intervention.
Arguably, the Tesla having a touch screen, which even gets changed on updates, is a major negative compared to the Coda.
With simple buttons you can just reach and operate them on muscle memory, even while driving.
Whereas with a touch screen, you have to look at the screen to see where you are tapping.
If you manage to build muscle memory for it, an update can completely and irreversibly break this.
For this, and the better battery chemistry, I'd have picked the Coda if given those two choices.
Now I only consider cars with physical buttons operating the car's features, the entertainment unit should be separate and preferably upgradeable.
If the Tesla and the Coda were the same price, and had the same range, I would buy the Coda.
I remember the Coda store at Westfield mall in Century City West LA. It got replaced by the tesla store and subsequently became the highest grossing store they have.
That's sad
Was not expecting this collaboration.
2:10
They also designed the Norwegian NSB Type72, currently operating mainly in Stavanger on the Jæren line; and in the east in assorted roles around Oslo.
Insta360 needs to work on their lens warp correction. Most of the time it's fine, but there was a shot in the ad segment where you could really see it's shortcomings in how it made that Hummer look waaay out of proportion.
Love that you give aging wheels a Platform he deserves it
Nice collaboration with Aging Wheels, Robert's channel is awesome, I subscribed. 👍
Not sure if you're gonna read this but I have some things to say about the current electric vehicles.
They all are trying to be like tesla. Just like all other smartphones are trying to be iPhone.
You don't need to be any of that stuff. You don't need to have cameras for mirrors, don't need to have big touch screens, onboard navigation which sucks btw because how slow and inaccurate them being sometimes, doors that open weird, or self driving mode etc. None of that.
Take 1995 Honda Civic, remove ICE put Electric motor and put a decent range. That's literally it. You wouldn't need a giant screen and navigation display to find closest gas station, you would mpst likely use google maps for it or any other navigation app in your phone. Hence, you shouldn't need the same hardware to find a charging station.
Complexity = Bad
Be a 1995 Honda Civic Electric.
The issue with that approach is that nobody makes a 95 civic. Any new model car has a giant touch screen and complex internals. It's not an electric thing it's just a car thing.
best colab ever!!!!!
Now this is a collab I never saw coming
I love your videos, there's always that ironic spark that makes me laugh sometimes!!
This is a crossover I didn’t expect but I am happy for
It's interesting to learn about EVs of the ancient past, now we've brought that back with style & efficiency,
I hereby dub thee...
*_The Coda Colab!_*
Interesting info & review, with just the right level of humor.
Thank you!
Regardless of the subject you make extremely entertaining videos, thanks.
Thanks!!
Soo true one of the few UA-camrs I have the bell turned on
The real issue was that it was an introduction to electric vehicles, but instead was called the Coda.
Coda compensates for the trunk release delay by opening it REALLY FAST!
I’ve said this before, but I love unscripted Quinn. There’s level of unhinged and just pure spontaneity that is so entertaining to watch and listen to.
Wait you own one? I thought Robert owned the only running Coda on the planet.
It is *I* that owns the only running coda on the planet! Haha
@@snazzy okay, Robert's will run when he fixes it.
How long have you had yours? At the beginning I thought Robert brought his to show off.
14:48 "It feels very current-full" ... oh you :D
So funny from the start at the parking lot, move to Garage, and now end up testing the Coda at the cemetery. Quinn you're fcking legend! 😂
I did not see a @AgingWheels crossover so this is awesome. lol
Being 2012, people were of course leery about electric cars. Aside from the vehicle's attributes, a *Chinese* electric car was just a bridge too far. And a Chinese vehicle it was, even if they went through the motions of "assembling" (twiddling a few bolts) here in the USA.
even without reading the title i saw the collab coming from a kilometer away when i saw that Coda in the thumbnail XD
Driving a Coda in a cemetery... how fitting
Golly gee. One of my favourite youtubers ever pairing up with Quinn. Happy days.
14:17 cameraman doing the most
I think the true reason electric vehicles were unable to take off until recently is because they kept making them ugly. as. shit. in an attempt to look futuristic, or in the case of vehicles like Prius, appeal to more markets by combining sedans and small SUVs, instead of making their current vehicles electric.
They're still ugly as hell. Gas cars just had to get ugly too.
I wouldn't say you *wasted* your money. Tax write-off, video revenue, reselling the vehicle and writing off the lost will more than cover the cost.
I love this car. I drove the gas version over 100k
I will watch any video Robert makes a cameo.
The coda has physical gauges and some of them even work! 🎉
Bumper shot of a 2012 Coda… that rear looking all kinds of fine 🤣
Automatic rain sensing wipers have been around since the early 2000s. My 2013 Golf came with them standard
M y 2004 Buick Park avenue Ultra 1SE package had rain sensing wipes as standard equipment on the Ultra 1SE package for 2004-2005.
Yes! The amazing Aging Wheels getting more attention
Love that camera
I wish I could upload a photo of my Miles EV. Love Aging Wheels!!
17:35 her loss on the aux, snazzy confirmed wavy
The Model S also had OTA updates, and it still gets them
my favourite tesla feature is catching fire
If you ever want to see a clash in different UA-camr styles watch that walk around of the car. One is trying to be a car journalist and talk about the features of the Coda, the other is just a bloke showing off his car. Very funny.
legendary video and vehicle. also nice information throughout the video
Wow! didn't expect to see these two together, awesome!
Two of my favorite UA-camrs in one vid? God are you hearing my prayers?
When talking about "first to market" it should be noted that the Mk1 Tesla Roadster is a modified/"EV-swapped" Lotus, not a ground-up development.
To be fair man, it's changed a LOT.
My boi aging wheels 🔥
I wish the Koda was the breakout car instead of the Tesla. It's just a car that happens to be electric, which is all you actually need in a car. Instead of pushing self driving tech, they focus more on the R and D of the car itself, meaning more affordable and dependable cars.
I had one for a couple years. It was cool at the time (and for the price I paid in 2014)
How was the range and your experience with it? What did you pay
@@archive3do769 after the federal tax incentives it was about $13,000 brand new. Range in good weather was 75-125 miles. It was poorly built. Not very comfortable and had some quirks. But I didn't have to buy gas!
@@keithremelts36 not terrible if you live in an area with short burst drives and charging stations I suppose, especially in 2014 when gas wasn't cheap either. Kia was selling overstock Souls for like 9k/10k around that time with $200 gas cards. So you definitely didn't come out too bad it sounds like.
the model s was very ahead of its time
what a great collab guys
I was not expecting this crossover episode
YAY FOR MORE ROBERT (Aging wheels) :D
Hey! Thank you for this Information. I was just wondering, what camera are you using?
to my knowledge, it's said to be derived from a late 90s mitsubishi mirage.
Someone has done a MCU2 upgrade on their Model S, but it does look like that battery has some serious degradation reading only 76 miles of range at 80%.
I really wish these things got off the ground, the potential for them was huge at the time! Even by todays standards advertising an electric car with batteries that don't degrade as much and are significantly more environment friendly not to mention more slave labor friendly would be absolutely huge!
Robert's face as you squeal around a corner 🤣
Hehe I was thinking to myself: "they are testing the Coda in a graveyard....foreshadowing much?"
The colab I didn’t know I needed!!❤❤
The company that built the coda still exists and they just bought Bollinger
Dang, my 2001 Bonneville has 12 way adjustable leather seats.
The first cars weren’t electric… they were steam powered. 🤦♂️
So Robert found the only other person who knows what a Koda is lol. I think someone needs to start a Koda registry for north America to see just how many are still around.
This episode is so awesome
but is it worth 4000 today? seems like a good deal to me. you're student getting his first car, and you don't have to pay gas... an absolute steal.
Hey Snazzy, loved the video, but the audio seems really weird. Sounds mono or not mixed right? (I compared to your other videos to confirm this)
Sounds good to me.
Dialogue should be mono.
Was the Boss radio stock, or what magic made the ev info work on an aftermarket head unit?
Reverse camera input I believe. No Coda software is actually running on the aftermarket radio, it's simply displaying a video feed.
Loved the video. It would be nice if the image had a little more contrast and saturation. It almost look like a LOG straight out of the camera.
Has a grade but will keep in mind for the future. Thanks.
@@snazzy Nah, it's got that 2012 vintage feel.
@@snazzy honestly I think it looks just fine, it’s just naturalistic. Which is honestly what I want from a car review, I don’t want neon grass or endless depth to the dust on the car.
I learnt something new today.
Aging Wheels is the manz.
7:00 Insta360 seems to be having problems keeping terrain polygons steady :)