By far the easiest and lowest hanging fruits, when it comes to EV tires, is to tell the car makers to stop putting 20" donk wheels on their cars and go back to 17" and 18" wheels. You typically lose 20 mile in range when you ‘upgrade’ to the larger wheels and tires.

“However, it’s tricky directly comparing the pollution from particles shed by tires to exhaust fumes from an internal combustion engine.”

What do you mean DDT is not good for us? I’m huffing it right blee blor umu fel.

I am still waiting for the windy race 50mph+ gusts.

Somehow, the wags who run F1 never looked at late November Las Vegas weather to learn that it’s cold. I live in Las Vegas and I hope they leave. It’s miserable here.

But people love getting hyped and ignore facts!

I wouldn’t know since it began at 1AM where me and 48% of the US population live. But I’m sure the 16% who live in the west thought it was great, even though the highlights I saw were all blue-white lighting over concrete barriers and catch fencing, such visuals! This is so f’n stupid. F1 wants to grow this sport in…

Looking at the forecast, this seems a non-issue.

The lows over the weekend, look to be upper 40s/lower 50s.

Cold temperatures bring out tire deg uncertainty, which in turn gives us an exciting race where every strategy counts. This is why last year’s Vegas race was so good.

“After a few laps, your fingers get so cold, they’re stuck in that position, and they lose feeling.”

Ironically enough, if Vinfast brought their X5-based car to the US it would probably do just fine. The car was styled well

I’ve sat in and closely examined a VF8. While it looks well screwed together and feels reasonably comfy, there are quite a few issues around material quality and design choices. Saw a VF9 in the back lot of the showroom and got the same impression. It’s just meh!

I doubt they’ve sold more than a small handful of any these cars in the U.S. Just about all of them are going to be leased. I can sort of squint and see the value proposition of a $500/month lease for a 3-row crossover. Even if it’s crap, that’s about the cheapest 3-row crossover monthly you are going to get and you…

44,260 is a about 44,000 more than I would have expected given the negative press they’ve gotten. 

As long as they’re reliable that’s pretty much all people care about. It’s reliablie, colour, price for most non-car people.

A middle-class car costing $70K with 60 mo. loan at ~6% and nothing down would have monthlies north of $1300, right? Who agrees to this for an unproven, relatively unknown car company with terrible reviews?

The advantage Hyundai had over VinFast is that Hyundai had actually built vehicles before. All of VinFast’s vehicles are either re-bodied BMWs or brand new platforms, so they don’t have the deep understanding of the car manufacturing world.

If only Fisker was able to hold on as well as VinFast has...

It’s not surprising to me he more or less got up to speed, I have long said IMO rally drivers are the GOAT racing drivers. Not a knock against F1 drivers, but driving the speeds that rally driver do on small loose surface roads is nothing short of astonishing.

In all fairness, When Hyundai came to America with its Excel sedan, not only was the car trash but Hyundai “It rhymes with Sunday” and its buyers’ misfortunes became a running joke.