Probably does not apply in cars but on motorcycles I noted when going from stock cast aluminium wheels to magnesium or carbon wheels you will completely ruin the suspension set-up and it is actually much harder to get the suspension back to “works everywhere” type set-up. Makes sense when you think about it the heavy…

The motor has cooling on the stator but not the rotor. Rotor overheating is why Tesla’s go into “limp” or lowered performance mode so the Porsche has them on this. 

They may have better motor cooling but that one sided cooling on gel cells is super lame. There is no way they are properly temperature controlling fat gel cells when only one surface has contact. Even the first gen volt had better cell cooling then that with thinner gel packs and two sided cooling on the large sides. …

We have a ford V10 natural gas generator at our plant. Supposedly big enough to run at least some molding machines but I think it really only runs the offices. Sucks because when the power goes out to the rest of the area we have to keep working. 

I don’t see a conventional 12V battery. If so I’m happy, the inclusion of a lead acid battery on EV’s is a point of confusion for me. Why have one? Is it dictated by some obscure law or just laziness? It can’t be an efficiency argument as although there are losses converting HV to 12VDC you had to do so in any case to…

Let’s hope someone is keeping a “crime tab” that can get cashed in as soon as executive privilege no longer applies. This is a rounding error compared to his other crimes but hey, add it to the pile. 

Right. About 99% of the diesel, quad cab, long box, dually yucks I see daily are towing nothing but one fat ass with attitude. Trucks have become the default for beer drinking, conservative voting morons. I guess Camaros are just not good enough anymore. 

Yep. Somehow the Germans can do platform sharing almost as much as GM but the cars are very different (at least different enough as to make them viable).

I freaking hate gas stations with the diesel in the middle of two gas hoses. It’s impossible to get to the diesel as you sometimes have to wait for two people to leave to get access and when you are using you are guaranteed to completely block one gas nozzle and dependant on what direction people are going block both…

I’m pretty sure that tach output hole being open on the cam cover is a bad idea. Should machine up a little plug or maybe actually use the tach?

Absolutely right. In a parking lot of Mercedes, BMW’s and Audi’s no one gives a second look to what seemed like the entire company went out to see and get rides in my coworkers Model 3 when it showed up. 

Don’t you mean get a tea? 

I don’t know about worse but best is race gas from a non-emissions engine (preferably high compression and tuned to the limit). Nothing like the smell of good race gas. 

Do these idiots have a phone? Long before smartphones (Motorola StarTac days) a service rep could tell me where I was within about 100-200ft. With smartphones and GPS it’s down to likely 10-20ft. Welcome to the jungle. 

As the owner of four diesels over the past decade (Audi A3 and Touareg both bought back over dieselgate and now GL and GLK diesels) love the mileage and the fact diesel is usually cheaper than regular gas here and a lot cheaper than premium (which as German cars if they weren’t running diesel they would need premium)…

Yeah but straight 6 still sounds better and would have been more iconic for this car. 

Peugeot motored minis. Horribly unreliable motor, like worse then 1980’s GM unreliable. That any modern car could get through design, testing and launch with such a basket case of a powertrain is ridiculous. Wouldn’t touch one with a proverbial 10 foot pole. 

Honestly the one vw uses in golfs/ Audi A3’s acts like a normal automatic as far as I could ever tell driving my wife’s A3 (other then not crawling when you take your foot off the brakes). Never had any issues with it but only had it 100k kms before VW bought it back.

So they are dangerously incompetent not cartoonishly evil, got it. Except the AOA disagree lights and indicators were extra cost options that you had to pay extra for if you say, wanted to not crash. Sounds cartoonishly evil to me. Also outsourcing the coding to third world programmers with insufficient oversight to…

The funny thing is if the “free market” tries to control the situation you know the government will step in. Imagine if every American 737-max owner said screw it, I’m buying Airbus the US government would shut that down post haste.