Yes - those are impressive numbers - especially the flat torque graph - but you cannot compare the torque between engines and motors.

Two Goliath Pioneers.

I have pondered why some vehicle reviewers go on monologuing at length about the tires the car or motorbike came with.

Oh, ån Ümläüt?

As a swede I raised an eyebrow when I spotted the umlaut in malört, and was intrigued at the implications in this context.

I present to you Ghostrider.

Thanks! I needed to spit coffee on my keyboard.

Yeah, I don’t actually like having a lot of gears. I want to burble forth on a huge tsunami of torque, not go NYEEETNYEETNYEETNYEET.

So it is an obese hatchback.

On a 2-wheeler you generally want your mass far ahead. Anything at the back is a serious detriment to stability.

As I mention in another post, in Europe we usually have a whole separate road network for bicycles and pedestrians, such that they do not even share the same asphalt as the cars. If you had that, you would not have to worry about bad car drivers at all.

Where I live in Europe we have an excellent system of bicycle roads, usually beside car roads but also a lot that are “standalone”.

While the health benefits are true, I have observed one common denominator among every vocal bicyclist I have ever met - they are all middle-aged balding men with a beer gut.

You know - great as e-bikes are, the value proposition ain’t all that favorable. Where I live, I drive my car for a year for the price of an e-bike. To match the miles-per-dollar I would have to commute to work every day for seven years.

Hehe. I once had to park my Buick between a column and a wall under a hoterl. It took me about 50 “max left, forward one inch until it touches the wall, max right, reverse one inch” and so on to get it in place. When I got up to the reception the guy said he had watched me on camera and was impressed.

Absolutely correct. I lusted for the 3rdgen when I was a teenager, and I eventually got an IROC later.

I was born in 1970, and my first car is resting in a barn. A Buick Park Avenue. I love it more than any other thing I own, and intend to fix it up and drive it to my death. Any day now...

In Sweden we refer to Boomers as “the giant plug named Orvar” and they are generally older than your boomers, because they were born right after the war.

I think everyone who has ever driven a car agrees with you.

I like everything about this car more than I should, since I am in Team SAAB (it’s like a Mopar vs GM thing) - especially the lack of a stupid-ass center console/driver bathtub - but there is one detail that keeps me off.