I think you mean, “Is this the same Munro who said Teslas were built like 90s Kias while he was invested in Tesla stock?”

It’s even more impressive that he’s also legit designing rockets at the same time.

This is why I have faith in Elon despite his many faults.

Very few indeed. Probably the only other auto executive that has comparable (and mostly likely greater) product knowledge is Mary Barra. She worked on the line while she was an engineering student at GMI/Kettering and was later in charge of global production engineering.

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Other than maybe Christian von Koenigsegg, yeah. Agreed.

This is the Elon I like to see. Less drama, more science, and ....humble?
Also, reading this article felt like reading Popular Science articles from the 90s-early 2000s, in that it felt appropriately scientific yet easily digestible.

This is impressive. I’m not the world’s biggest Musk fan, but very few C-suite executives have anywhere that level of knowledge about their product. Credit where credit is due, good for him. 

Hopefully they figure out that people loved the old games, in particular GT2, because it had an awesome assortment of nerd-quality cars, awesome championships at every level, and made it fun without taking 6 hours every time you fired it up.

Sometimes I just like to power-up the V8, and listen to the noise with my windows down (in the cold this winter) as I cruise along.  I understand how fun it feels, but I also get how EV’s can take over.

The day manuals became extinct, even in high powered sports cars, was the day I decided not to care that we’re headed towards electrification. If I can’t heel-toe shift my way through life, I might as well safe the damn planet enjoying all the low-end torque goodness of a 1-speed gearbox.

To me, it’s not the EV part of it that lessens the excitement, it’s the other factors inherent with EV (and other modern cars), esp. the transmission. For a driver’s car, I love a manual transmission, even if it isn’t fast. You’re not going to find that on an EV which is fine, but I will miss it.

I mean, I’ve been saying this about automatic sports cars for years. What the point? You press and go. I think that everyone has their own definition of driving enjoyment. I like it to be as engaging as possible. Some like it as loud as possible, while others just want it to be stupid fast. The fact that the current…

First off, the company plans to achieve net-zero emissions from top to bottom by 2050,

Most applications that directly use electricity rather than fossil power are more efficient with that electricity than they are the energetic content of the fossil fuel. For example, cars.

It’s almost like Nissan has been lead by morons for the past 15 years and is paying for it now......

I like it!  Don’t hate me please.

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Not sure which alternate universe you came from where a Mini was ever RWD.

time for an update on this classic: