He did have it in writing. The problem was the dealership employee screwed him over by omitting the fact that what they both signed was simply an acknowledgement of the reservation, rather than a contract that forbid alteration of the final sales price.

At the same time, why does everything have to come down to legality and signed agreements for things like this. Shouldn’t a well functioning system be easy to navigate, transparent, and not rely on having to protect yourself all the time?  An ideal system here should be relatively “frictionless” so to speak.

Asked my sales guy yesterday about this. Said they sell at MSRP and usually don’t get anything in writing, but could get something in writing if I wanted.

Every pickup driver that still has a Trump 2020 sticker on the bumper disagrees with you.

1st Gear: This is an excellent example of how stupid American politics Americans have become. Driving an electric vehicle shouldn’t be a political issue. Divesting from fossil fuels to preserve the environment shouldn’t be a political issue.

Its not a political issue for 99 percent of truck sales. The Ford rep saw a young journalist and said what he knew they would eat up. No one cares about politics in cars except journalists.

1st Gear: This is an excellent example of how stupid American politics have become. Driving an electric vehicle shouldn’t be a political issue. Divesting from fossil fuels to preserve the environment shouldn’t be a political issue.

“Cars are the best way to ___________.”

A 7 liter LS7 weighs 450 lb, approximately the same as a 3.4L NA Porsche flat 6. Comparing to any turbocharged engine would be even sillier.

It’s not a faux pas. Istanbul is split between Asia and Europe. The dealership shown above is located in Europe.

you’re talking about eastern european car culture and you’re talking about turkey.

They’ll lease enough of them to keep CARB happy while they work on their next offering. 

In theory, yes. In practice, the energy density of batteries is far too low to make that practical. Using the Volvo S90 as an example (because it has a plugin-electric and gas version so we don’t have to guess at efficiencies), with a leaf battery pack as a baseline (since they’re the only ones readily available) we…

I love the idea of an electric crate engine program, but the motor was never the tricky bit

“Those are decent figures and Ford’s Chief Product Platform and Operations Officer, Hau Thai-Tang, noted the output is higher than what was available on the Fox body Mustang.”

He’s not wrong though. Ford is tossing you the easiest part of the whole deal, leaving you to figure out the most difficult part.

Also, the whole fucking point of a “crate engine” is the easy route...

Once you stop asking no one in particular, maybe do some research.

Finally, a good use for an old Miata with one of these:

Let’s crowdfund one for Jason to put it in the Chang Li!

I would love to put two of these in an old 240z: