What ever happened to the good ‘ol collect phone call?

What failing Jalopnik won’t tell you is what a fantastic job I would do reforming the UAW. It’s going to a beautiful, classy union when I’m done with it. I give myself an A+ on union reforming. And having tremendous respect for women, I give myself an A+ on that as well. And you can tell China we’re winning at space. W…

What else does Elon ‘Snake Oil’ Musk do except outright lie or be intentionally misleading?

Someone should teach you how to use your legs. 

My butt dyno is nowhere near finely tuned enough to distinguish between two cars so close in performance at that level. So who fucking cares? The dick waving really needs to just stop, both cars are completely stupidly fast.

Buy an Evora now while you can still get a sweet six pot. The current Geely / Volvo engines are about as devoid of character as you’ll find.

What are you getting out of this absurd defense of indefensible actions by a powerful piece of shit? Maybe, just maybe, Elon Musk is a fucking asshole, and you can just acknowledge that instead of carrying his water for him.  He isn’t going to offer you a job or anything.

I cannot possibly rationalize ever buying a new Alfa 4C ($67,150) over a very gently used Lotus Evora, Elise, or Exige.

A <5,000 mile used 2017 Lotus Evora 400 is competitively priced to said 4C, *and* has a manual gearbox.

Wonderful write up, with lots of great information. I’m really excited to see a challenger to Tesla enter the market. (FWIW, my 2013 Model S P85 (RWD) has averaged 323 Wh/mile over 60,000 miles in snow country.)

FIFY

Um @Porsche, this word Turbo does not mean what you think it does

Track owners have renamed that portion of the course, Schadenfreude Corner.

or a trombone

Reading through the stupid details of this stupid drama, I kept asking myself “Why am I reading this? It’s stupid.” Yet, I read the whole thing. I am stupid. 

Cue the Tesla apologists:

Out of the greys for the Jalop world to hear you—

The closest analogy would be the inverter, which takes DC from the battery and converts it into AC to drive the motor, and also regulates the speed/power output of said motor depending on how hard the accelerator is pushed (together with driving assist features these days.) It uses solid state power electronics…

Engineers explaining how science and physics work only to have it fall on deaf ears is basically how we operate everyday.

Just about anyone with an engineering background could have told you the outcome of this test. This is an example of an idea that was thought of by non-technical people, and greenlit by non-technical people.

“great pick-up”