I’m confused about your comment about a bike fitting with the seats down. It’s a coupe, there only are two seats! That being said, I do think a bike would fit in the back anyway!

I’d like to see companies get incentivized to put the safety features on all trim levels, or at least have them available. For example, for the WRX to actually get top safety pick+, you have to fully load a Limited trim vehicle. What if I don’t want to pay the extra 6 grand for leather seats and sunroofs, but want the…

No inspections in MI. Pay the man a bit of money, and prove that you have insurance for at least the day and you’re free to motor your rust bucket wherever you like!

As an automotive engineer who has three horses, a Subaru with 210k that daily drives more than 100 miles, and two other 100k+ mile cars (Focus + Dodge Cummins 2500), I can confidently say that I am well versed at keeping both historical and modern transportation methods alive. That being said, I can leave the truck…

The new Fiesta face looks so happy while it jumps! Like a roller coaster!

Ah gotcha. Thanks!

It is actually going to be a PHEV? You call it a PHEV everywhere but then never back that up other than “but now we know for sure that it is indeed in the pipeline.” Or will it just be an FHEV?

So what is really actually learned from these shots? Especially when they’re early ones like that F150 that’s an Expedition or something? Yeah it looks weird, and is pretty cool, but what of value is learned from it? Especially when it’s not the actual sheetmetal like the F150 thing.

So it’s only in a specific way, but hey I work on them so it’s something I’ve thought about: electric cars.

So I recently moved to MI along with a Cummins 2500 4x4 very similar to the one above. It’s got no rust on it, but I don’t have a concept for what care needs to be done to keep it that way... regular maintenance on it has been super easy save for the VP-44 and lift pump upgrade kit on it a couple years ago. Got any…

Not entirely sure what “Seems like a small car to have a lot more battery pack than a Model S.” was supposed to mean, but the 600+ mile range doesn’t seem like much of a feat. The larger model S with a 100 kWh pack can do 335 miles, so that the Roadster with 200 kWh can do 600 is a completely reasonable assumption.…

It will be interesting to see how it compares with the Model S, as it has plenty of problems on track. But, with twice as much battery (200 kWh vs 100 kWh), you will end up with 1/4 the heat being generated in the battery pack (heat is resistance* current squared, and the big pack cuts the current per cell in half),…

Serious question, how long do you normally drive at 250 kph? Would you want to be able to do it for 20 minutes straight? An hour? As far as I’m aware dual-motor Teslas can do their top speed (which is actually 250 kph) for like 3 minutes then have to drop down to something lower (maybe 200 or 180 kph?), and can hold…

Not necessarily, though I am very curious how they traded off the different choices to get both the acceleration and such a high top speed. E-motors generally have a high RPM capability, and if they put three very large motors (think their 600 Nm P85/100D rear motor) with low final drive ratios it could totally be…

Re. all the Model 3 reservation holders and Tesla’s lack of quality and service issues etc. I totally understand where all these guys are coming from. Yeah, their build quality is pretty terrible. When there’s another long range, fast EV with a network that easily supports road trips, and has better build quality,…

I’ve got a buddy who drives a FiST but swears the car he truly wants is a Fit SI, and it could be a truly marvelous vehicle if they ever made it, but even if they did it probably wouldn’t come to the US...

They likely actually have to ramp torque in so as to not break the transmission... could be a linear ramp from 0-200 RPM, 0-330 lb-ft would be quick enough to feel good but hopefully not tear apart the trans.

How many times did we think we were going to run out of oil? Not only that, but there are so many different chemistries that exist and are being worked on for energy storage, if a component like Cobalt gets prohibitively expensive, another battery with slightly different formulation will take its place...

I travel 4-5 times a year out of my own pocket and even if I always traveled Delta(who I travel with for work), their card really wouldn’t end up being worth it. Also, I burn a lot of gas on my commute so I’ve also stuck with the Costco Visa card, which gets me pretty good returns on everything and don’t have to worry…

If you do autocross it with wider tires, please share the story... I remember years ago when Jalopnik got to test drive the i3 they asked what they should do with it and that was my suggestion as I had driven one a couple weeks before and with proper grip on it I think it could be properly quick.