About which part? The Tesla part is well on the way becoming quite true. Porsche is definitely on its way, but their ambition is not quite the same. Or it shouldn’t be. Which I think is the point of the OP’s comment. To what extent should Porsche even be benchmarking Tesla? They are only competitive across a minority…
Pandemic Turbo is a bit silly of a name because the standard Pandemic has a turbo as well. It’s like words are meaningless now. Porsche really need to get their naming conventions in order
Are Porsche really taking on Tesla? Porsche is kind of taking on the Model S with a much more expensive car... The day Porsche have a mass market car with a base price around 40k like the Model 3 will be the day that... Forget it, that day will never come.
You’re all over the place my friend. GM sells many trucks. Trucks keep GM alive. The QOQ profits you state have nothing to do with GM’s ability to successfully develop and sell a line of EV. You’re conflating everything to try and make your point when in reality the transition to being an EV manufacturer is much more…
Despite GM’s head start, Tesla hit 200k in Q2 of 2018. Before GM. Look at GM’s EV sales since that time. They are a fraction of Tesla’s sales YoY, QoQ. Facts. Just look. To go back to your facts, GM had a head start and even still could not leverage that into a dominant or even growing market share of the EV space and…
Take it one step further. Show me the cars and the sales numbers that would qualify as a volume success for a GM EV? The Bolt? I’ve looked at them. I am puzzled by your claims. Flat bordering on trending down. Meanwhile Tesla is increasing their market share. Yes GM is investing a ton now, which mean my statement…
Ah, so you’re an internet troll who goes personal instead. Nice.
They don’t look great, but a removable roof is such a half step to me. From behind the wheel, dealing with the extra fugly in order to be more fully open and exposed to the outdoors is worth it
Sunny all the time? I live in DC and I used to bomb around in my Miata with the roof off year round! The joys of blasting through the appalachians in December on empty, twisting, two lane roads, a touch of snow on in the woods, late-day winter light flickering between bare trees, heater blasting full and the sound of…
I feel like they should have been able to make a composite roof panel that was light enough for one person to remove/install and that could also slip behind the seats. Classic german moves here
1) beautiful car. 2) yeah I get that. this is kind of one of those cars you park in the garage with the roof out (if you’re lucky enough to have a garage) and only drive it when you know it won’t rain enough to do anything
NO. GOD NO. What are you saying? That would be the antithesis of what the T is intended to be. A performance version of their base model at a lower price. Than the S
Agreed, but also I’m not in their target audience. And this isn’t a limited car like the 718 Spyder where the annoyance of a manual top is part of the “special car charm” I guess.
Yes. Facts. Facts about how great GM’s new EV will be and facts about about how many they will sell. “Facts” lololololololol
Ah, gotcha. Makes sense. I too thought Tesla was going out of business. But years keep ticking by and they keep slowly digging out of their hole. And they’re investing a ton in r&d. At this point I’ve forced myself to put my skepticism to the side and now just expect them to inexplicably defy the common expectation of…
Sounds like a lot of promises. Still no track record to prove they can do it. Sounds like you’re drinking the cool aid as hard as Tesla fanboys drink theirs. See the other reply to this comment about GM’s track record on the Bolt’s powertrain, etc. I’m expecting GM to take a lot of shortcuts and make a line of…
YES. This is the correct take. They’ve proven they can make an undesirable electric car. After a long string of undesirable gasoline powered cars that mainly end up in police and rental car lots... Those are the skins they have on the wall... not impressive. If they were going to make an electric truck, it might be a…
I’m no Tesla fanboy, but they’re not an electric car company. They’re actually an electric infrastructure company that is developing their own battery tech. Also they sell cars. This is someting that no one else has ever been able to pull off. The larger car companies can make electric cars, yeah duh. But they still…
It’s actually a light car with a very small engine. Just a tick under 4.0 liters and no turbo. Compare that to other n/a engines that make even 100 hp less if you don’t believe me. And unfortunately you’re right that Lamborghini (the VW group) won’t suddenly be inspired to drop 800kg because it is less expensive to…
hahaha yep, he’s really choosing to die on this hot-take hill. Funny thing is that his hot-take is a noob response to what happened last week. That or he’s been told that he needs to get more “interaction” on his posts so he’s purposely written a garbage take to get us all up in arms... If that’s the case, then hat’s…
