The last mechanical speedo I owned needed a new cable because it bounced around like crazy until you hit 40 mph

Ah, you’re trying to troll. Got it.

Why would it lose electrical systems entirely? You’ve got a battery and an alternator, that’s two systems that would have to completely fail. Besides, in the event of a total electrical system failure what would knowing your speed do for you? Chances are you’ll just slow down and stop and figure out why the…

If a central speedometer is a big part of why you aren’t going to buy a certain car you were never going to buy that car in the first place.

The whole friggin car is a giant electrical system. It’s not even uncommon to only have a digital speedo these days. Even airplanes have digital backups to the digital primaries nowadays, it being digital is a non-issue

You have to understand that the FAA ignores logic. They would question how do we know that the swap took place successfully? Was every bolt safety wired appropriately? Are all connections secure? Is it the correct battery? Is the battery grounded correctly? How do we track which batteries are in what airplane…

I wouldn’t say it’s that much lower of a class than a Cruze performance-wise, at the time they had the same motor and there was no Cruze hatch so I had more space.

I am absolutely an aeronautical engineer by many means and I have designed control surfaces and hinges. The hinges themselves have to allow for the expansion but expansion happens essentially along the hinge line, which is a different direction than the hinges rotate. This can be allowed for in a few different ways,…

That’s great in theory, but in its price range the 86 isn’t a toy, it’s a car. It’s a car that’s fun but 90% of owners are buying it as their only car. Things like the radio are really important when you consider that most of the time you spend in the car isn’t in a ‘fun’ setting.

You’re comparing a RWD sports car to an economy hatchback? LMFAO

Also tires and brakes are cheaper for the 86. A lot cheaper

Eliminate all the not RWD cars from that list because they don’t produce as many giggles per dollar. Leaves you with the Miata, but it isn’t relatively practical.

But you have to swap them. No way do you successfully complete a fully compliant and safe battery swap in the same amount of time as a refuel without having a lot more people and/or tools, which adds a lot of cost.

They don’t have to match thermal expansion exactly, they just have to be designed to account for thermal expansion differences. We already do that a lot, for example composite control surfaces attached to metallic wing structure.

Good luck getting that through any kind of flight safety certification process.

I find it ironic that someone would write such a review lamenting an unnecessary car utilized for an uneccessary week long beach vacation

Honestly though? A review by someone that doesn’t like cars could be interesting. This was not.

When the PS5 is already on its way so it’ll be on an obsolete system

Seriously, I immediately thought of all the times I have done that exact thing in Gran Turismo on Special Stage Route 5

I don’t think I’ve ever had that hostile of an encounter, but I’ve definitely had people tell me something isn’t rocket science to which I’ve replied “well if it was, I could handle it”