Great vid. Now allow me to pick nits, if you will. Sure, run the heck out of this one but...let's take it further.
What's been missing from all of the vids so far is to show the seamless transition to gasoline - and this should be from in-car and with in-car sound. Just totally destroy the range-anxiety issue that the all electrics have, really take that one on solidly.
It was the first thing I did when I picked mine up - run it down to see how that worked out - it was the one worry I had, and my dealer test drive just couldn't run the thing down far enough to even get MM to start the engine - heavy traffic in the city just doesn't get you there very fast, and I only had half an hour.
They only show driving from outside, and it looks slow (a problem with most shots of cars from outside). We know this car isn't slow. We need some in-car or outside shots of it doing what I do in it every time I take it out on the nifty-twisty mountain roads I live on - and perhaps even show it leaping up the hills...which it does quite well. I want to see this thing hammering out of a hairpin, doggone it. Dunno about yours, but mine squirts out of them as if launched by a slingshot. It's very impressive from the inside, and only matched by serious hot rods. My Cruze didn't really tempt me to do that - not stable-feeling enough, and that power lag it has made it so you had to put the hammer down even before the turn to get things to happen at the apex - a very hard technique to learn as you're braking at the time going in.
I'd also like to see some demo of the very good traction control I took it out in the one puny (2") snow we've had here this year and could not make the car twirl - though I tried. I quickly wiped the snow off the small parking lot I tried it in without ever getting it really loose. I probably never got 6" off my track, even doing "stupid things" on snow over gravel.
There's more than one market for this car. Sure, there's the tree-hugger types, or the anti oil types. But adoption of any new car is also driven by the "car guys" and we need to show them that Bob Lutz didn't mess this aspect up one bit. WHile not as fast, this car is more agile than the Camaro SS I traded in for it, and I don't miss the Camaro one bit. But so far, no video shows that at all.
And, lets assume that some people need more daily range than one charge can get you - this is often true for me, where it's 27 miles round-trip to the beer-munchie store alone - and 55 to the town I do most of my business in. We can note the net mileage from say an 80 mile day is nothing to be sneezed at whatever, and blows off most hybrids.
We're just not getting across the "do everything well" aspect as well as we could.
Look, here I am a rank amateur, out with this camera the first time - and I got this one. I'm sure a pro could really work with this idea (choose a better road, a sunnier day, and by golly catch the transition on the screen under better audio conditions for starters):