In my 20's used to have a white on white BMW e30 convertible my wife named Yayo. Every car I have owned since was objectively better in every way, but that old Bimmer was still the most fun. I still want another e30.

Back in the glory days of car audio competitions (mid 90s to mid 00's) there was a well-known installer named Dave “Fishman” Rivera who would install a small fish tank somewhere on all of his competition builds. If this guy is a car audio nut and this isn’t a joke about a leaky headlight I suspect it’s a reference to…

I’m actually only a little surprised by this. Install conditions vary a lot from house to house. Fortunately for me, my main service panel is right next to the garage door on in my driveway so I would install the charger right next to it. I imagine a lot of folks doing their own DIY install are in a similar situation.

It sounds like every generation ruins everything, just in their own unique way.

Shitty work ethic affects pros and amateurs alike.

...and a 4th conductor as 240 is often split phase.

I love actual racing a lot more than watching it. I’ll still on occasion go see some endurance racing at the track, or WRC and Dakar on the screen but I’d much rather be behind the wheel.

Agreed.

How about senselessness a fish tank in the headlights?

Yeah. Makes me sad.

Definitely not vaporware. The factory is doing preproduction runs and there are a bunch of preproduction examples running around doing testing and they just completed an 8-day desert navigation rally in one.

Oh, I’m not arguing against Alpine. Transmission options aside I love them. My point is that there aren’t enough purists who will walk away from Porsche for Alpine to ever really sell a lot of cars.

The Alpine is far more attention-getting, and in my opinion, much prettier, but most people aren’t proper enthusiasts and so they will buy the de-facto standard anyway. Just like how every old guy who has enough money automatically defaults to Ferrari.

Im not sure people who are seriously looking at either of these care. Both are just enormous electro-bro-dozers.

The problem Alpine has (and the 4C everyone is comparing it to) is not the lack of a manual transmission (that only affects the Jalops who won’t buy them anyway). The problem is that Porsche exists. They simply won’t be as objectively good to pry away the folks are buying 911s and Caymans. Sure, they more interesting,…

Still less douchey than the Cybertruck.

And ^this^ is the real answer.

At top speed, a Veyron runs through its tires in 15 minutes.

Given that Michelin developed the tires on the Bugatti specifically for that application, I imagine all of these 250+mph hypercars are using them.

The lap record is 3x that so it would really be a hell of a sight.