To be fair, Insights last 400-500K miles, so the body mileage is not an issue, but the base price of the car is only about $1000-1500, so $12K for an engine is insane.
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“CP because it still has a 4 cylinder”. LOL, the engine he pulled out was a 3 cylinder. <sarcasm> That makes this 33% better! </sarcasm>
I can’t think of anywhere on that car where steel touches aluminum. There isn’t much steel there. The entire body is aluminum and so are the wheels, engine and transmission. Maybe the strut mounts?
The skirts add mpg by reducing drag. The rear is a modified Kamm tail. They all contribute to the 0.25 coefficient of drag.
Not 20,000 per year. 17,000 total - for all 7 years (1999-2006 worldwide)
Quite a few. Coast-to-coast on 50 gallons of low-test with the AC on.
Woah, woah, woah.I have to correct you on this one. The 1.0L Insight engine you removed weighed a mere 124 lbs (aluminum & magnesium), the battery pack weighed 68 lbs the controllers - maybe 3 lbs and the inverter and voltage regulator (with fans), maybe 30lbs. The transmission is less than 50lbs. So, you removed…
“Can’t they just reprogram the ECUs to effectively put it in permanent “test mode”? So the car gets a few les MPGs, but at least there isn’t this abundant waste...”
The cars will all eventually find their way into the recycling stream so that is not an issue.
Um, none unless some owner went to the wrong pump. 😉
Just neuter them and sell them for half price. I have a pre-scandal TDI (1.9L) from 2001 and it performs just fine with its’ stock 90hp (and gets 44 mpg officially). The neutered cars should be able to do better than that with 15+ years of development.
The agreement specifically states that they cannot sell them overseas unless they are brought up to EPA first. The government wanted to make sure that VW didn’t profit from this. And if they can bring them up to EPA, then they can sell them here.
Remember that they aren’t “soot-spewing turdmobiles” in test mode, just “lower-power turdmobiles”. Fixing the cheat is a simple fix. Then the car is worth less because it doesn’t get the magically high MPG or it’s not as peppy, but they’re still serviceable cars - totally usable. And having them on the road would…
Or just reprogram them to not pollute. Sure the power and/or mpg will be down a bit, but many still will get north of 40 mpg. If the software isn’t flashable, then just swap out the computers.
It’s amazing that most of the cars are black, white or silver with a minority of red, a sprinkling of blue and just TWO yellow cars.
I just realized that the infinity ergodox appears to be a copy of the kinesis broken into two halves. I’d have to try it, but the concave keypad on the kinesis is definitely a major plus, so I don’t think the ergodox would be as comfortable.
LOL, it’s an extremely ergonomic keyboard designed to make your fingers move as gently as possible and to keep your wrists in a good position.
It has a mechanical feel to it, but no click at the end. It actually can make click sounds if you want (it has a speaker), but the feel is pretty close to an old IBM Selectric keyboard without the pressure release at the bottom of the stroke. The keys have a little less mass, so less inertia and the plastic of the…
Kinesis Advantage2 with an Apple Magic Trackpad II velcro-ed to it.