None of these sound musical to me. They sound high-pitched and screechy. Music is my BMW N52 with the OEM M-Performance intake and exhaust. Or an Alfa Busso V6 - “like having your soul licked by angels”. Nothing spinning much faster than 7K rpm sounds good to my ear - the sound inevitably turns into a screech.

1. Apply gas guzzler tax across the board.

The US incentivized the wrong tech as the transition point for EVs. PHEV/Hybrids would have been the place to start. Lower the demand on fossil fuels and continue to build out Charging Infrastructure while getting people comfortable. Taxes/Registration based on Gross Weight helps as well.

We just need some small cars that don’t suck. The original VW Bug was one such car. In terms of interior space, the old bug was about same as the current Mini. And yet it became the best selling import in America for a good dozen years in a row. The original Honda Civic likewise was about the same size inside and out…

I’d have a Focus in the family fleet now if they weren’t equipped with glass transmissions.

No they really didn’t. If you don’t sell at least 100k unit a year, it’s really hard to justify building it, unless you also have massive parts commonality with another vehicle (which is the only reason Lincoln still survives).

Your first.

Oh of course. I was laughing as I was writing it. None of this behavior is normal or ok.

many of them going in urban and residential areas

“after dumping 50k into my 750k suv I can finally beat a 65k suv in  drag race” isnt exactly a great bragging position 

I’m sure letting a battery fire just cook for a few weeks isn’t dumping toxic chemicals into the local air or anything.

Do you really think a super-rich entitled autistic white South African dude who grew up during the apartheid era and who’s family wealth came from mining really gives a darn about the black kids doing his work? Really?

Of course they don’t care. The real cost of things is too expensive for the capitalists.Let them eat cobalt.

I would be really surprised if any owner of a Koenigsegg drove their car at all, much less took one to a track. I assume that 99% of these end up purchased by oil money and stuck in warehouses in the middle east, just like all the bugattis.

Not that I know of, though that’s not to say an owner of one hasn’t done a couple laps.

Get a Prius.

There could be a host of reasons (generally speaking)...

If I have any say in the matter, we’re going to keep posting Speirling content until everyone is talking about it.

The Speirling is such an incredible machine, I’m surprised that it doesn’t get talked about more often. 

First gear: There is a reason why Industrial Engineering is a completely separate discipline.