RE: the supply problem.

my Z4 and in fact all gen 1 Z4s the x5 and so on are made in spartanburg ga

Put a diesel in this, and we'll talk.

A z8

Because the m4 and the 3 and 4 series in general are wider, longer and as a result better planted. Drive a m135i vs an m3 today and it shows.

The road is owned by the state. the developers have a 50 year concession to operate it.

If one designs partially open window inlets as naca ducts then they can be low pressure rather than high pressure inlets. given car designers know how to do low pressure inlets it's mostly a question of, having driving around with the windows open as a priority, using convection to preclude buffering and validating…

providing a 220v 30amp circuit for a level-2 charger is frankly a pretty trivial exercise. it seems like an incredibly simple consideration to include one in the garage.

They got heavier relative to previous models... if you look at 1960 you see even 2 door coupes exceeding 2 tons...

Well recall these are forced air induction two-stroke diesels, so if it's idling it probably doesn't have enough boost from the supercharger to burn all the fuel it's injesting. then when you throttle up it's going to burn all that off.

> the instrument cluster is clear and useful — it may be right from the donor motorcycle.

If you watch his first video he notes he has range for about 53 laps. I imagine they drove it to the track and drove it home. I would be sort of interested in the watt-hours per mile average given recovery works well under breaking. the thing will average about 300WH per mile at 70 on the highway, if it was 600WH…

Despite having a dramatically lower CG then the corvette, it does weigh 4600 pounds so, yeah there are limits to what a 6.5 foot wide 4 door sedan can do in the handling dept.

they get even taller of course. all depends on the crop.

some incredibly lazy designer couldn't manage to integrate the touchscreen into the dash.

That milage is consistent with all-electric-operation... One imagines a responsible adult in traffic being about to go about 20 miles on 7KW of battery. A Tesla model S goes uses about 300 watt-hours of battery to go a mile for an equivalent energy content of about 89MPG US-cycle.

The most modern internal combustion engine is around 20% thermal efficiency. Even factoring in long distance grid transmission and then storing it chemically the power plant is more efficient.

Wierdly, it's not being shipped the united states so you might reasonably conclude that they understand the market they're selling it into just fine. They don't appear to have trouble selling all the one's they planned to make, so I'm not really seeing the problem.

as the drag coefficient goes down all cars eventually look the same

Speed limits in CH are aggressively and successfully enforced. I've done most of this except the italian side over a succession of trips, but in a toyota auris and a polo tdi. I do like driving in switzerland, a lot in fact but fast generally isn't part of that.