You already get the hot version. In Europe you can get it with a 1.5L 150 hp, a 190 hp 2.0L, a 150 hp TDI, a 190 hp TDI, a 240 hp TDI and the range topping 280 hp gasoline engine.

Its much easier to relay information in whole numbers as opposed to fractions.

Objectively

Or, insulate your home properly. Both in cold (heating) and warm (AC) climates. Home insulation I’ve seen in the US this decade would be laughed at in certain parts of Europe in the 1970s. It’s utterly terrible. With proper insulation you need very little heating/AC.

Your carbon emissions are roughly the same as the carbon emissions from a 2019 car with the same fuel economy, as CO2 emissions are directly related to fuel economy.

Nah. Fahrenheit makes sense to you because you grew up with it. Celsius makes at lot more sense when you grew up with that. Neither is more useful than the other ‘day to day’ when you look at it objectively. My bias makes me very strongly prefer Celsius.

Yes. They should have used degrees Kelvin. Right?

There are some countries that already do this. Set up a threshold and tax every single gram per km (or some legacy US unit. Ounce?) that is emitted over his threshold. Make one of the checked substances CO2, so fuel economy is taken into account. Make tiny cars and big consumer-grade trucks fall in the same category,…

'Europe' is way too diverse to answer that, but in countries like Germany people do tend to stop driving when their license is suspended.

The i3 is a great suggestion.

Hot rods are nice and all, but what would you use if you simply want to build an electric commuter out of a (semi-)classic? Something for a smallish car that is not intended to win straight line races. The Tesla parts are not really suitable for an application like that. So what else? Nissan Leaf? Something else?

I admittedly drive cars from a completely different era but I upgraded to 15" wheels. The steel wheels on the base model were 13", my mild performance version came with 14" and the highest performance version had 15" from the facotory. Given my (Lancia turbo) engine swap I chose bigger brakes, simply requiring bigger…

Looks more like a “Galaxy”.

The people who tested it beg to differ. It’s in the article I linked to:

Ford (...) getting out of the small car business in America

What a stupid mistake, thanks for point this out. Too late to edit now. I meant, a 2014 Mustang is better than a 1965 Mustang, but not necessarily worth more.

It is a collector’s item, and that’s precisely why cars from the 80s are appreciating (mk2 Jetta: 84-92). Especially super clean ones. You would not have seen the same price a decade ago.

That is not a fair comparison. When these Golf GTIs Jetta GLIs were new and recent there were loads of people who lusted after them. Like, posters above the bed lusted after. The MK2 (Golf) GTI was one of the best hot hatches of the 80s, of course it’s going to be expensive now.

Do you track your car? I mean, an M3 has relatively huge brakes compared to the vehicle weight. Meaning that if you were to hypothetically use the brakes very conservatively and use engine braking a lot, your brakes will last for a very long time. Much longer than in a base spec 3 series driven in the same way.

If the passenger was his/her offspring, then the driver still qualifies.