At least bikes are still manuals.

And what is it that you have against braking?

Aren't we putting the cart before the horse? Has anyone even seen one of these model 3's?

This is not a new phenomena

Massive investment may well be a requirement to success, but it is certainly no guarantee of one. If he is to change the automotive world for the better, he will need to show consistent profit. Let's hold off on the fellatio until that happens.

I thought I read somewhere about a year ago that Tesla was finally pulling a profit without subsidies.

"Musk went on to say that he thinks Tesla will be profitable by 2020"

Interestingly enough, a 94% reduction is tickets did not turn NYC into Somalia. Makes me wonder how much good the tickets do to those of us who are not collecting revenues.

I was excited about reading adequate man, but I really hope the next set of articles are better than this one.

I absolutely love the way racing looks from inside the vehicle, but for crashes, you still can't beat the outside view.

Wow. That is quiet a rare ride. Very nice.

That's terrible! I'm named after a dog!

Since you clearly seem to know a great deal about these sort of things, could you tell me the year in which metals stopped expanding at different rates, or when elastomers became immune to the effects of temperatures?

Thanx for the info!

What do you drive?

Agree, offroad guys would refer to tires. However, a wheel is a rim/tire assembly, thus used correctly. It's the guys referring to their rim as wheel that are using the wrong term.

Well there are drawbacks, the CV joints are forced thru so much motion that they are not as rugged as they need to be on such a vehicle.

lol, wheels not rims. The offroad guys measure the diameter of the tire, as opposed to the rim.

The last raptor was sporting 35" wheels, so lets assume this one does too. The skid plates seem to be about 2/5th of the way up the wheel (maybe half way, hard to tell) so that would be 14" of clearance.

The current incarnation is likely to be horrible in that regard as well. I'm guessing 16mpg, but it might be as high as 21 if they care about economy at all for some weird reason. Which is possible. I mean, you appear to.