I stopped watching in a significant way from 2015. The turbo hybrid 6's sapped all the theatre out of the cars. When you hear the V10s or V8s now, the sense of “oh my god, that is so much better” sets in hard.

I was with you until this one. Not every vehicle over $60k is overpriced. In fact, there are lots that are that expensive or significantly more that literally are the technology test beds for future less-expensive cars. It’s not an automaker’s responsibility to cap the price of their vehicles. It’s an individual’s…

Pay more money for more weight, is all I see:

“wE’rE gOiNg To ReInVeNt HoW cArS aRe MaDe!”
Can’t even design a bumper cover to stay attached. My career has been in engineering in this industry. This is laughable. 

That is an ENORMOUS vehicle.

Don’t ask logical questions.

I’ve owned and daily driven a 2015 Mustang for 5.5 years. When I have test driven a few 6th gen Camaros and hopped back in my car, it’s startling how much more/better you can see in the Mustang. And that’s saying a lot, as the Mustang isn’t some beacon of visibility greatness itself. This is one of the things that’s…

Yep, all valid points. In the near-term (10 or so years), commercial EVs will be almost solely buses and medium duty vocational vehicles (regional light pick-up/delivery, utility work, tow trucks, etc) that have a home base every night. EVs actually make sense in those spaces.

“This source estimates the Tesla truck will weigh about 2 tons more than an equivalent standard truck.”

If I could’ve shorted just that part of Tesla back in 2017, I would have. 

Not to mention that batteries are very heavy and reduce the amount of freight that can be hauled by one tractor. It’ll be a long time for this segment of the commercial vehicle space. It just gets a lot of headlines because that’s what people see.

I think your (and most of the nation’s) understanding of how polluting modern commercial vehicles are is not grounded by data. Most of these Class 8 tractors today get 8.5-9.5 mpg, which doesn’t sound like much, but at a typical 65,000-70,000 lb combined load, it absolutely is. Approaching or soon to be at 50% thermal…

Got my years wrong. A 2.0T did win in 2018 and they were deep in the trophies last year.

You have automotive Stockholm syndrome. 

The 2019 CAM-C national solo championship car was a 2.0T 1LE Camaro amidst a field of mostly 5.0L+ NA or supercharged V8s. 

But then you can’t see anything except straight forward, and you have a much bigger car that has no more usable space than a BRZ/86.

A 2.4 or 2.5 NA might just be enough to get it out of its own way without accelerating at 9/10ths from every stop light.

....Mustang

Couldn’t agree more. I loved pretty much everything about it except that torque curve. That singlehandedly killed the idea of buying one for me. I test drove two, but that was enough to conclude that it just wasn’t fun enough unless you were hooning it.