I like this idea but we can go further with it.

You think that’s bad? You can get the potentially deadly C. Difficile from touching the drive mode knob. And that’s when you already have an STI!

There’s no article on it, I had the body shop do it. They filled in the holes with fiberglass and shaped it to the contours of the existing decklid. Beyond my skill, but it turned out wonderfully. 

Just about any modern Cadillac concept, but not because the concepts themselves are bad. It doesn’t matter which one, but let’s just say the Sixteen if you want to be specific. They all look gorgeous and preview a future where Cadillac could become “The Standard Of The World” again.

It’s all about feel. Way back when, I was younger and possibly dumber and a lot smaller in diameter, I had a 88 Fiero. I had modified it with Koni struts, a rear sway bar, aftermarket suspension bushings and new rear control arms that allowed for more negative camber and lower unsprung weight and +1 tires/wheels. And…

15 years ago in cycling, the only tires you would be caught dead with on a road bike were 23mm, pumped up to 120+PSI. This was just how it was done. And people would argue ad nauseam that the 23s were faster and handled better and anyway they have to be better because that’s what the pros ride and the pros only ride…

My person, the entire US commercial airline fleet numbers a grand total 5,882 planes.

In Q4 of 2023, there were 288,000,000 vehicles operating on US roads.

That is quite literally an order of magnitude more than the number of planes in the US squared

Yeah, this is confusing as Hell. I had to look it “Kaufmann Language” and most sites that describe it do so in ways that are thoroughly unhelpful. Best I found was this site:

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I would have paid them a million more to not make it such a pain to service in the first place lol.

LOL, shit I got that in my couch cushions. On on the P1 battery if my memory serves be its located behind the passenger cell between it and the engine. so swapping it is, I believe, a full engine out, and might even involves removing the entire rear subframe. So I suspect a HUGE part of that cost is just labor. I also…

I’m just mad 60K$ to me isn’t pennies on the dollar like to the mega rich =(

Maybe so, but for one they were VERY hard to come by, they didn’t exactly make a ton of P1's, and also getting to it, is let’s just say difficult. You can watch one of the early video’s from Tavarish’s YouTube channel, and see when they removed it. Companies like McLaren and Bugatti don’t think about servicing their…

What are they using for batteries, Lithium Titanate? and the thing doesn’t even use it to drive on EV on it’s own. Unless they have to fly a tech out there to do the swap and they are rolling that to the customer...I think that’s the real reason.

I’m sure the lack of volume isn’t helping for Ferrari, but $7500 is more than the production cost of a standard Mustang Mach-e battery. Most of these EVs are designed for pretty quick battery replacements. Book time for a Bolt, I believe, is something like 4.5 hours.

But when you’re talking a class of vehicle where oil…

I mean maybe, but it also depends on what they cost to swap without the warranty. I mean replacing the P1 battery, not apples to apple obviously, but that costs $160k. The annual subscription is expensive, but I also suspect thats probably less or about what insurance for one of those Ferrari’s would cost. And at the…

Are you kidding? If you don’t have the “subscription”, it will be $150K.

Also the interest Ferrari gets on the earlier installments rather than a flat $60k.

60K$ for some batteries just after 8 years? That seems too much, but I guess true cost of the batteries themselves is like 20K$, 20K$ for the installation and 20K$ for the badge.