Flax-based composites are nothing new. They are heavy, which is why you don’t see them used all that often. 

“ Kwid weighs only about 1,477 pounds”

Is.....is this even possible? What is it made out of? Aluminum Foil?

Mike Johnson drives a ‘17 SS 1LE....

So no...unless he swapped the motor in that car the CAM-C national solo wasn’t a 2.0T.

I have designed many, many plastic parts and subsequently have seen many of those parts changed over to a cheaper material with looser manufacturing tolerances.

Why? Bean counters.

I have not found a set of mono blades that don’t chatter. I use PIAA blades and have never had a problem in 6 years. 

You can buy a superior current Model X Long Range for $79990, at a 26% price premium. There is no reason to buy this thing.

Simple, American’s are lazy. 

This car is ugly as fuck and doesn’t have the build quality of a $40k vehicle.....but this is a fucking steal at $19k. 

The butthurt is real. I never said anything about autox, burnouts, or whatever strawman the Toybaru fanboys like to trot out. The original comment was about it being slow, which yes...it’s fucking slow. So slow in fact it WILL get outrun by a glorified minivan. Hell, there are actual minivans faster than this thing.…

When my wife’s Honda pilot can outrun an FR-S to highway speeds, yes...they are too slow.

You wouldn’t need to stretch a pilot to compete with the Highlander. The highlander is fucking TINY on the inside. 

How about we remove the option to have diagnostic/secure automotive data transmitted via a wireless protocol at all?

Someone didn’t do their research? The Outlander and Outlander PHEV are likely lumped together. They still sell ICE versions of this thing.

That’s basically what I said man. It’s a perfectly good daily driver. Unfortunately most people do not get over the ‘looks’ hump. Fickle, we Americans are. 

While probably true...I think the price is less of an issue, it just looks stupid. Tesla sells 200k cars per year, and they cost at minimum 10x more.

The comparison here would be a Bolt vs a Model 3. The thing that’s killing the Bolt isn’t necessarily it’s price (though it certainly doesn’t help), its the looks. As…

This would sell all of 14 units in the US....

David and Torch are the only writers worth reading here anymore...so yea, we care.

Go read Erik’s holier than thou anti-truck rants or something.

New powertrains get announced after the initial releases all the time. Will they do it? I dunno. I am just saying there isn’t much of a barrier from an engineering standpoint.

I will say the 2.7 is pretty beefy for the platform, but from an efficiency standpoint we all know the numbers puts out for their motors are…

I honesty doubt they would need to hack anything up. Again, it’s got the width for a Turbo V6 and the length/height/weight capacity for a turbo-diesel I5. I would bet it’s damn near a drop-in. Main changes would minor changes to motor mounts/locations, transmission support, and suspension updates. Hell the 3.2 diesel…

Just because they haven’t done it, doesn’t mean that it’s not possible. The fact a turbodiesel inline 5 can fit in there means there’s definitely space length and height-wise. Width is the only question, which again...they can fit a twin turbo V6 in there.

A naturally aspirated V8 can fit, likely with little effort.