For the actual purpose of one these cars, which is tooling into los gatos or central zurich on a saturday morning to have a double cap while you read your weekend journal on your ipad this is a far more suitable car than the mercedes SLR or an Aston Martin vanquish. I'm sure it will sell like hotcakes.

piaggio is really the proper aircraft to go with a Lamborghini

given the visible transaxles and the ratio selection in the cab, the electric motors are at the other end of the drive-line from the wheels.

geeze this is what mail-order was made for folks... put your token in and wait your turn. Now that it's gone global it'll be a quarter before the pent-up-demand is fulfilled and you can just walk into a retailer and sail out with one with no drama.

due to the magic of higher thermal efficiency, it's still more efficient to burn coal, transmit it long distances cross-country, chemically store it in battery, and us it to spin the wheels, than it is to burn gasoline to make cylinders go up and down.

The tacoma is based on the 4runner whereas the 7th generation hilux retains the ladder frame. between that and the lack of a diesel trim lime on the tacoma, being a hilux seems far more likley.

2 more doors

subarus used to mostly be functional but ugly, my last one was pretty much a trapezoid on wheels.

it's not going to be much of a window in a pressure hull of the appropriate strength. in any event spheres are popular because it's straight forward to evenly distribute pressure.

4k is all about the projectors...

rear axle bounce is a noted issue with the manual gear box, bmw's solution is that you turn traction control back on. The suspension setup in the M5 is plenty hard already...

lupo 3l doesn't weight 2.25 tonnes and make 400hp at the rear wheels.

jet stream flows west to east... There's a reason why 25% of los angeles' air pollution comes from the Gobi desert on a batd day.

You'd be wrong. If you ever priced a chilled water plant for a million square foot building with a hole in the roof you find it's on a rather different scale, and then there's the power it requires..

Except that the TDI can't. the city figure is 30MPG...

f the market is bigger in hong kong or mainland china, then launch there. Or don't sell them in stores first. I ordered mine when it became possible and it arrived this morning. they're going to sell 100% of what they make for some time so it's really only a question of how and where they're being rationed.

A bad solution to a disaster is no solution. they had no product pipeline going into bankruptcy and they still don't.

on the contrary I do, and the one that reliably erases disks is a lot more powerful than the one you use on tapes, and it destroys the disks. if you're reselling used hardware they're more useful and valuable as surplus with drives.

2/3 of world nickel production is consumed by the steel industry. if we're going to keep harping on batteries for their nickel content there's a lot more things we should be giving up. like cars.

Back in 2006 while deciding on a replacement for a 15 year old subaru and my first actually new car. I applied a simple test, does it get 40Mpg?