Agreed. One of those was next to me the other day, and my god, that engine--it’s a work of art.
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It’s gotta be a subdivision street, pre houses.
Mitsubishi is trying to become lean and tech-y by moving offices from [checks notes] California to Tennessee?
So this is what Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce ended up making?
The fact that some of them had a rear air conditioner is pretty extra, too. And then there was the instrument binnacle that moved with the steering wheel, though that wasn’t unique because at least Mazda later stole it.
OneSpeedSteve doesn’t have the same ring, but the Tesla is the closest you’ll find to driving a manual that isn’t a manual.
Wait, did they make the GTI in that color?
A 35 kWh battery is small, even for a car like that. Range will be...100 miles, ish?
Pictured above: Many expensive things that we may need to abandon in theater and/or bomb with other F-15s to avoid them falling into enemy hands, as we retreat on the whim of a dangerous madman.
Honest to god, once you’ve gotten used to charging an EV, going back to buying gas isn’t “convenient.” It literally makes me angry when I have to do it.
Electricity is relatively inexpensive (most places), but more importantly EVs are very efficient compared to gas cars. The increase in your electric bill is relatively small compared to the money you save not buying gas.
My Model 3 has a 75 kWh battery. Electricity in my region is about 11 cents/kWh. I’ve seen others…
Exactly right. The Tesla experience is night-and-day better than relying on 3rd party charging networks, and you are 100 percent correct that investing in this network is what has given Tesla a real competitive edge. It’s not about the battery, though having a certain range floor is necessary and makes it possible to…
These issues are all real, but I don’t think that they’re significant enough to give me pause on a car that had otherwise been taken care of, especially if I wasn’t planning to track it aggressively.
Yeah, it’s complicated and sort of hard to follow, and of course the best cars are the ones without an IMS at all (i.e., 2009 on). But they changed the bearing design sometime during 2005 on the 3.2L engine in the Boxsters, which resulted in a more robust and significantly less failure prone design. That design was…
IMS isn’t a significant issue on these cars (ie, the 3.4l, or even the later 3.2s in the Boxsters). They also aren’t as easily replaced as in the cars where they were a problem. I wouldn’t expect that it’s been done here, and I wouldn’t care if it hadn’t.
If our trade policy is set by grievances from 1989, why aren’t we standing up more to the USSR?
No one, which is why Porsche is out of business. There’s no reason to buy one, and no one does.
These reviews are, sadly, not that surprising. It doesn’t shock me at all that GM tuned the chassis to favor tire-shredding understeer in order to protect the average Corvette pilot, who is probably used to a very different approach.