Oh, great, even more Teslas literally aiming directly at cyclists and pedestrians.

Just because you put a yoke instead of a steering wheel doesn’t mean the car is a plane.

Maybe I am a boring automotive enthusiast but I would be happy if the roadster were just a well, balanced, dynamically engaging, and quick car that happened to be electric. There are so many ways to take advantage of the benefits of an electric drivetrain and chassis (low COG, the ability to place a different motor at…

And the resident Tesla shill gives their 2 cents.

It’s a $60k+ truck. It’s supposed to $60k+ truck things. Like

Toyota:

I’m not interested in manufactured engagement. I want real feedback. Let me feel through the chassis what the rear end is doing. Let me feel through the steering wheel what the front end is doing. Give me some of the raw noise of the motor so I can guage speed by sound.

Well there are many that can, Rimac for example, is it as fun as a similarly powered ICE vehicle, I don’t think it is. Part of driving a road like that is the engagement, hearing the engine the revs going up and down, you lose that with EV’s, the power is just ALWAYS there, and that is an issue he brought up as well,…

To each their own. I’ll never give someone a hard time who finds EVs fun. Hell, I won’t even give someone a hard time who believes EVs are MORE fun. I think the argument/discussion is no different than the one between turbo 4-cylinders and V8's. It’s personal preference.

Yeah, if all you’re ever going to do is mash the go pedal in a straight line, everything is going to get boring, I don’t care what it is.

Who knew that having physical feedback when shifting the car is a benefit?!?

“Back in 2021, Tesla moved to a touchscreen interface for shifting its cars.”

Submarines, the natural predator of billionaires.

I was also going to say the Miata aka MX-5.  The last existing OG analogue sports car would not be the same in anything other than NA ICE, RWD, manual.  Making it a heavy, AWD, single speed trans EV would be a travesty.

I’m afraid to say it, but I’ll say the Miata. An electric one might be awesome, but *it might not be* and that’s a scary possibility for me.

I’m no metallurgist, but I am a knife maker, and welder by trade. I know more than nothing about steel. Generally speaking, the more chromium you add to steel, the harder and more brittle it is, IE the harder it is to work and shape. True stainless is generally considered 13+ percent chromium, but steels that can…

Finicky and sensitive to getting wet. Just what you want from a PICKUP TRUCK.

Material Scientist & Engineer / metallurgist here. Tesla is using a custom cold rolled 300 series stainless steel, so similar to type 304 and 316 austenitic stainless steel. Marketing name “ultra-hard 30X”.

Yea another victim of our current anti-expertise age. I would not want a truck built by people who just think they are good at everything.