Beyond a few specific places on certain cars that seem to get pounded by rocks (rear rocker panel and bottom of the rear door, for example), paint protection film is mostly a waste of time.  I say that as someone who has bought it on most of my new cars.  Costs almost a thousand bucks (including window tint, which I…

I love the Pantera, but the last thing it really needs is a bunch more power.  Unless you really do have a death wish.

I wish we could do that for people born here. The number of moochers, vagabonds, lazy motherfuckers, criminals, rapists, etc, that are native born Americans absolutely dwarfs the number of illegal immigrants. You should have to prove your worth before you can be called a citizen.

More accurately, you ceased being cool when you hit 30, at the latest, with or without kids.  Some people become uncool much sooner than that.

Big short squeeze on TSLA.  Ironically, now would probably be a pretty good time to short it.

Sorry, I misread your comment. Yes, I agree that it will likely outsell the 3.

Yep, 350 is just slightly less than 3 miles per kWh. It’s fine for me, but plenty of people like to drive more than 200 at a stretch. I respect that.

I disagree.  I think it will sell well, but at 53K it costs more than twice what a RAV4 starts at.  To really make a dent in existing crossover sales, it would need to be at least 10K cheaper, and really more like 20K.

There’s something wonky with their pricing, I think it has to be some kind of mistake.  The stealth performance model 3 is now the same price as the performance model, and the ‘upgrade package’ that includes bigger wheels, brakes, spoiler, etc, is free.  Ummm...

Some models of the Mach-E are light on range, but I think it will do fine. It has a far nicer interior. If the infotainment isn’t crap, at least.

It’s six inches taller and has like twice the cargo space.  It’s almost the same height as an X.

You don’t charge to 100% for commuting unless you must, you don’t want to regularly draw down below 20%, so 200 miles is more realistic. For a performance model, 100 miles of commuting range is what I figure on. I usually get a bit more than that, even in the winter, but overestimating your available range is how you…

310 is summer range driven conservatively. At 75mph in the winter I draw 350 Wh/mi and realistic range between supercharging stops is 150-200 miles. Charge up for 20-30 minutes, keep going. The breaks work well for me because I have two young kids and a stop every couple hours is nice, but I can’t fault someone for…

I expect Model 3 sales to tank, even with the Y being a bit more expensive. Enthusiasts may still be interested in the performance trims, however. If I were buying again right now, I’d probably go for the Y, but ... I’m getting old. Not trading in my P3D, however.

I have experienced unintended acceleration, on my old 2006 Subaru STI. It was on the track, after an entire day of driving, as I was going into turn 6 at PIR I mashed the go pedal instead of the brake. I was pretty tired, clearly, but I did learn that I could take turn 6 faster than I had been.

The correct answer is ... “who cares?”

The second truck didn’t hit the car or even come particularly close, he was just getting far enough over to keep anybody from coming up on the right side, and then he turned to the left when he got near the car.

Should have thrown a few ICEVs in there as well, just for science.  Might help with the “everyone’s real world is different” problem.

Neutral: Yep, on my 16th birthday, in 1990.  I couldn’t wait, I was really excited to have my own car.

Sign me up. I’ll never give up my car, but I’d gladly partake of good public transit. That means 1) clean, 2) on time, 3) not too slow. That is going to cost a lot of money, and it will require consensus. Good luck with that. At this point I would have to give up two hours a day of my life (23m commuting by car, 1h31m…