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6/22/21

Do americans actually think we all love Hasselhoff, or are they just following the same meme?

6/22/21

All those factories are old and have a layout that is undesireable for current production methods. Building a new efficient state of the art factory is a bigger investment, but superior in the long run.

6/21/21

Audi has also had this for a long time. The only thing that’s somewhat new is the oversteer mapping

6/21/21

The difference between Toyota and others like Ford and VW is that Toyota openly admits that they won’t phase out ICE cars in the near future. Every relevant manufacturer other than Tesla is still developing ICE cars because the risk of wasting that development budget is more appealing than betting everything on EV and…

6/19/21

Ferrari is aiming to open a restaurant with Michelin-starred chef Massimo Bottura. That I am willing to try.

6/19/21

I remember an interview from early 2020 where she said that she once had a passenger in the BMW Ringtaxi who actually shat his pants.

6/17/21

Porsche 993 Carrera RS(1994)

6/16/21

Almost all Group N cars and many Group A cars including GT3 use stalks for indicators, which are required in multi-class racing.

6/15/21

What is the guy with the Polo smoking?

6/14/21

The crash also showed a big difference in attitude towards drivers. In european and japanese racing it is common to not show crashed cars until the driver gets out, while the Indycar director kept zooming in on marshals tending to an obviously injured driver.

6/14/21

Anyone who compares this to an F1 steering wheel has obviously never seen one. Racing wheels are designed to guarantee good grip without having to put on much pressure with the hand. That is ususally achieved with a thin middle spoke and a piece of rim for the thumb to hold against. In the Tesla, the thumb has no…

6/14/21

This steering wheel looks a bit unsuitable for evasive maneuvers or general fast driving. It is really hard to turn the steering wheel fast when you only hold it with your fingers and the thumb doesn’t have something substantial to act against.

6/11/21

The problem with than is that pure carbon is not a good material for that, because it is too brittle. On race motors the casing is either aluminium or kevlar with a bit of carbon

6/11/21

Test mules can’t actually be sold for legal reasons, so if those 25 cars are pre-production cars, they are loaners or Tesla doesn’t care about the legal stuff.

6/11/21

I just looked into my local(german) regulations, and it doesn’t seem to prohibit it, but it will certainly be impractical. It may give off GT3 racecar vibes, but those cars don’t need to be maneuvered into tight parking spots. So it is impractical and follows boy racer aesthetic, which is a questionable choice for a…

6/10/21

Probably tires. Every other car in the weight range is electronically or physically restricted to lower speeds, and the cars that can hit 200mph are all much lighter. The closest would probably be a Lamborghini Urus, which goes up to around 190. There are probably no tires that are certified for that weight at that…

6/10/21

It could either be the answer to the Taycan or the EQS, but not both, because they are so fundamentally different. But I don’t see what it is doing about either of them. The Taycan would still outrun it on track or the Autobahn, unless Tesla fits an all-new more powerful cooling system, and the EQS is just an electric…

6/10/21

GTI seats do look nice in plaid.

6/7/21

Basically every car that is subjected to a reasonable maintenance routine. Cars that are taken to the workshop to prevent problems rather than fixing problems tend to leave less money there.