Of course their market share is declining. They basically owned the EV market because they had almost no serious competition until a few years ago. 

From a standpoint of impact to the car, it’s basically a drag race. Almost all the wear and tear would be on launch. 

This strikes me as the 2010s version of a Fiero with a Ferrari body kit. 

Certainly not a cool thing to do, but I don’t see how a few drag launches is going to require 4 new tires and brakes. There’s enough runoff that you should barely even have to touch the brakes in a stock Supra.

It’s not like EVs are brand new at this point. The Model S came out a decade ago. Battery failures are about like motor failures on an ICE. Partial exception are old models with no thermal management in hot climates like the early Leafs. 

I’m guessing most prospective S buyers make too much for the tax credit anyways. 

Getting in is easy as breaking the window.

You realize there’s a method of auto theft that can defeat pretty much any security device? It’s called a flat bed tow truck.

Don’t buy it without reading this epic thread on Grass Roots Motorsports:

The power wall type recycling makes sense for cars that may have been wrecked or mechanically totaled for other reasons but may have a decent bit of life left on them. In any event, 1200 cycles is over 200,000 miles.

Actually, cell phones bode pretty well for cars. Consider that I charge my phone to 100% pretty much every very night and draw it down to around 20% (sometimes less) before I go to bed. If it were a 300 mile range EV, that would represent about 250 miles of driving a day.

As I read it, the law does not necessarily require the car to actually detect alcohol or refuse to start based on it. Rather, it requires detection of impaired driving. It could be the eventual regulations interpret it to allow something as simple as a lane keep assist feature that warns you if you are triggering it…

The value of any thing is a product of supply and weighed against demand. Rarity adds value insomuch as it represents low supply. But having the only factory puke green with pink interior Corvette in existence doesn’t mean you are going to make millions at auction if nobody actually wants a puke green with pink…

Good luck. He skipped town. 

Houston has been a major rail terminal since the 19th century. The East End is one of the older neighborhoods with a lot of the houses built from the 1910s to the 1930s. My brother just moved out of a 1917-built house in the neighborhood. 

I don’t doubt that. I’m just saying rarity alone doesn’t establish value. 

In high school from a guy with a Mitsubishi GSX sporting a carbon hood and a fart fan muffler “I’m building a sleeper.”

Rarity does not equal value. $3,500 may very well have been a lowball offer, but even if it were the only one in the world it wouldn’t be more valuable than that unless there is demand for that specific thing. 

Golf R Variant:

Odds of ever having to replace a battery out of warranty are similar to having to replace an engine.