I had one of these for 17 years, and it was all fun. This one is nicer than mine: https://www.ebay.com/itm/1998-Firebird-Trans-Am/273793622303?hash=item3fbf5f211f:g:cewAAOSwlS1cpmFk&frcectupt=true

Here are some of my other choices within that budget.

Hippie dreams of electrolysis, when refineries can produce hydrogen for next to nothing. That was the ENTIRE intent of a “hydrogen economy”...it was being pushed by fossil fuel interests to stay in the game rather than be forced into eventual extinction.

Or, y’know BATTERIES. Those are a real good way of storing excess energy from renewables. Advantage: electricity stays electricity. Lots of talk of these systems going on, very little about hydrogen which is multiple levels of additional pain in the ass.

What are you talking about? You can set up huge solar arrays that fit into the back of an Outback in the middle of nowhere. You can’t set up a hydrogen manufacturing plant, that you can use to fill its tank.

You can have a battery tanker. And it can power a whole rural town until the next battery tanker. Or fill up a…

It was always inevitable. The price, size and power of batteries needed to power cars was always coming down. If you draw a graph, you can see that the price, size and weight go down continually for batteries over time. The only advantage hydrogen had at one time, was range. And we can see that advantage eroding.

Hydro…

I think people would get over the heresy if it could accelerate like a Tesla Model S P100D in Ludicrous Mode. Which accelerates 0-60 faster than any Mustang, EVER. Or any muscle car on the market. And I think it’s 1/4 mile record is close to the Challenger Demon.

When a company like Ford says “Mustang” and “Electric”…

Love my Focus ST after driving it since new for 6 1/2 years. I’d totally get another Ford if they made something like an affordable electric Crosstrek.

Me. In AWD please.

I beg to differ on that. Every year there is a brand new crop of 45 year olds that put off a dream until their kids moved out.

Younger people buy used Harleys. And they don’t have a lot of money.

And over my life I’ve known people who bought a really nice Harley, but had a 20 year old beat to shit pickup as their…

verywhere I go I get compliments on this non-Harley bike that looks like Harley should have made it. It’s an E-Lux BTW and I couldn’t ride our up/down/up/down hilly area without the electric assist. Totally doesn’t fit on bus racks.

Tesla owners are baffled by it and expect it to be fixed in an upgrade.

I can’t afford it. But I know people with multiple Harleys in their garage who might be the market. They have the touring bike, the cruiser and sometimes a Buell or Sportster. They have enough money for this kind of thing.

At least it’s quick. Maybe not the quickest. But it’s quickness to price ratio is better than…

I’ll sum it up. With two 6 foot people and a full tank, the ass would hang out. Neutral no power, and on power. So the balance didn’t seem to work out like it did on paper. It was a major expectation failure. Or it’s own brand of fun, depending on whether you got it’s braking/acceleration timing in turns right…

Well, so a mediocre sports car is going for too much money. That could be said about a lot of old Porsches.

You can still get Mitsubishi 3000GTs (sometimes even coveted VR4s), turbo Supras and 300ZX Turbos for a bargain. Heavier, but I prefer the way they handled over the ass heavy feeling 944. I remember driving my…

It’s no Mazdaspeed 3.

Someone’s going to do it. It’ll be fun, but pointless. You can justify an automatic as a torque multiplier, but a manual?

People really do get stuck in their own little worlds where they’re out of sync with the times they live in.

With a sufficient installed base, the aftermarket will happen. The latest graphene batteries from Europe, the motor off a light rail engine and kits to support it with 3000 horsepower, exotic high current cables, water cooled everything.

I’m expecting to see aftermarket hot rodding kits for Chevy Volts in the coming…

Tesla had zero brand cachet when they started. What they have now, they only built in just 10 years, from nothing. I think Cadillac can built that cachet. But they screwed up majorly with the weak electric that they offered while Tesla was selling luxury electric muscle cars.

Everybody. Everybody will be selling electric cars for the rest of us.

It’s the cost of the batteries that’s holding that back right now. 5 years after 80,000 Wh batteries are practical in <$20,000 cars, it will be hard to find a new ICE engined car or truck. It simply will no longer make sense to sell or own one,…

Can save money by charging at home, and if they keep their car inside an attached garage, they never have to get out of the car in the cold to fill it.

I’m still amazed by the persistence of the old person stereotype.
You people realize the stereotype of the old person driving the land barge, comes from those old people…