I like sporty engines too, I lusted after 911s and S2000s while in high school, and relished the task of getting a friend's FC3S to the track (lost his license because DUI). However, I really enjoyed the quiet ride in my '13 Passat on long road trips, the fact that I had power on demand in 6th gear for passing +…

I've liked cars since my brother let me play Gran Turismo on his PS2, I've competed in local Rotax fixed gear karting races, and I've owned many cars that I've sweated through in hot summer months.

I've liked cars because of the comfort of having something waiting there to have fun like a dog that you can upgrade, take…

Care to elaborate what turned you off of driving diesels so much? And what do you drive nowadays?

>but i think we will be within my lifetime.

We'll see the end of our fossil fuel supply within our lifetimes, so it would be a coin-toss, if they make it, it will be the ultimate petroleum ICE, if not, "we were so close".

R32 Skyline, put a 1JZ or LS3 in it :D

This is what happens when a redneck comes into "cocaine money".

Welp, so much for realizing my dreams of hooking up with my high school crush after college, she just got a lot more expensive.

>and over time the cost of fuels will balance out to be equivalent per amount of energy you can extract from them.

In a twisted and round-about "fair" world, maybe. The prices are more directly related to how much effort and time went into harvesting and refining the fuel than energy content.

If energy really is…

Why not skip all of that and ask which chassis has the best milage in meters for converting one newton-meter into meters covered?

Then we can have a separate debate over which powerplant on the market is the most efficient in converting a set number of basic hydrocarbon molecules into Nm?

But then again, we don't count…

Chemical equivalence is irrelevant in terms of gasoline vs diesel, diesels are automatically superior when the prices are within a few cents per gallon.

How many dollars per gallon is liquid hydrogen available for?

When diesel costs similar or less than regular unleaded gasoline like it is right now on the West Coast, then comparing a TDI to a Prius is fair.

Otherwise, we're going for miles per dollar.

Besides, diesel is far better than gasoline power because of that density and unarrested detonation (detonation via high pressure;…

The throne of the best hypermiling car has been succeeded by the Passat TDI.

We CAN work with compromise due to physical, and cost constraints.

Just not a compromise due to stupid opinions.

Did anyone else catch the "evil chuckle" at 0:47?

Congratulations for GM successfully evolving within the box and winning awards for it?

Fuck it, boost for all!

Perhaps the real bullshit is lumping strong, highway-capable EREVs like the Chevy Volt and Cadillac ELR in with the weak, neighborhood-limited PHEVs from Ford, Honda and Toyota.

Just because I charge my phone every night, doesn't mean I enjoy that as a "feature" of the phone.

I want an electric car that I would fill up with fuel to be getting the most electrical energy out of the fuel and converting that into electrically induced torque at the wheels to get the most work per gallon of fuel.

Sinc…

http://www.plugincars.com/exclusive-chev…

Okay, so my research a few months ago was wrong, but I've read forum posts from owners giving me the impression that it is an electric car with a 1.4 liter crutch to limp home on after 40 miles of electric drive was over.

The Volt is called and advertised as an "extended range…

Actually, the Volt has no range extender, the media just fucked up reporting it.