Agreed, but sometimes you need to take them apart. I put off rust repair for a few years on my driving datsun 240z. I absolutely feel I need to address this before enjoying it more. It is now cut open and the front fenders are half done with rust. Next comes stripping them to get rid of the massive bondo pile up from…

I found my WRX (‘15) didn’t like the cold temp startups. -25F and it was spec’d by the dealer without a block heater. Old 70s 350 with a block heater and a carb would fire right up with a block heater. It was also interesting the radio cluster display would flash in the -25F. Didn’t seem to like it too well.

But the owner is using this in a manner that isn’t recommended by Tesla. A stand-up company would say that it doesn’t warranty private property and stop the allowance of use like this. Tesla would rather take the headlines of its tech being pushed beyond what is recommended/likely legal. I would guess that this…

And of responsible mind. My same gripe, and I am a ME. I don’t do product safety, but I grew up on a farm where there are plenty of ways to get hurt by not seeing the full picture/view around you.

Sure it is technology, but this right here is also how this technology gets banned or heavily restricted. He is no where close enough to fully see the situation around his vehicle would be my argument.

Maybe, but there are some downfalls (in my head currently, not on paper) that would be the long mileage would be pay per mile. Possible lower work trim package making it less friendly. I have a ZR2 trim currently.

Yes because it isn’t made in America, as in the USA.

Agreed, I would need a bigger garage though. First is get the Datsun 240Z fixed up from rust and crappy paint (the paint is the last part of it all), then a ‘46 CJ2A that was rotted out from being used as a farm sprayer for years (my great grandpa is on the title and I tore it down 15 or so years ago), then the ‘68…

I think that the rate at pushing regulation to force a change is the issue. If we switched purely to EV today, we wouldn’t be able to support the electrical pull from the grid.

Isn’t it an iron block though not an alloy block that is the biggest difference I had always heard between the truck engine and the LS engines. The trailblazer actually got a modified LS2 where as many pickups got iron blocks.

The truck is EV trucks are about efficiency, I need one that can be drug through the mud without pulling apart. Sugar beet and potato harvest are really hard on trucks. I have pulled trucks out of the field with a 4wd tractor where the trailer brakes left a 2-3" groove next to the sunken wheel tracks.

Taxing them equal. An EV uses the road just like a fuel efficient ICE vehicle. The ICE vehicle in all states adds to the gas tax which is used or supposed to be used for roads. Some states have a flat registration fee, others have gone to odometer readings for taxing for EV use. A federal level EV usage tax would be…

I did forget about the Mazda3, I wouldn’t mind owning one of them. I have a Datsun 240z for summer time, but I am not taking it out in the MN salty winter.

So how do we fund the roads if everyone switched to an EV? Solely through trucks on the road being the only buyers of the fuel tax? States and Feds need to fix the EV skirting the gas tax problem prior to mandating a massive gas tax.

I don’t think we should continue the $7,500 tax credit blanketed on any model.

My trouble is that I need a pickup 10-20% of the time... If I have a beater pickup that I don’t know if I can trust it makes it a PITA, so instead I bought a new one. I had a WRX that did great on MPG compared to the Trailblazer SS it replaced when that was stolen. The WRX couldn’t tow SxSs although I have hauled…

Ethically a vehicle which is operated/owned by someone should be for self preservation of said person. If I would save my own life if I was driving... It should make that decision. If I bought a product that would knowingly kill me to save more people who could move out of the way as well which the machine likely…

There have been people building pro-touring sick autocross pickups for 5+ years now. Ken Block has a crap ton more money than any of them, and the publicity which helps make him stand out though.

So GM way way beat out Tesla at selling a 200 mile per charge EV to the mass price that Tesla set.

I don’t think people understand the technology that VW group has obtained through their LMP1H programs. The pinnacle of electric and battery efficiency technology for durability has been racing for how many years now. Even if the motorsport engineers don’t stick around the knowledge and tools for analysis built can be…