Yeah, good point. As long as I can still go to my local show every year to check out all the new models I will be happy. I may only buy a new car every few years or so, but I like seeing all the new models in person to get an idea for when I do want to buy instead of going to a half dozen slimeball dealers. And it’s…

So are auto shows going to be dead in 10 years because for some dumb reason automakers decided electric vehicles are tech instead of cars? I don’t want to go to CES to see new cars

That supercharger totally adds $20k to the value of this truck! LMAO

Ok, tell me how if this person was 50 years old how it would be any different avoiding those obstacles? You try safely crashing an airplane and let me know how expertly you handle it. He called his mom because he couldn’t radio a tower to say they were crash landing, not to just say hi. This kid knew he needed to…

There is a flaw in your logic. Literally anyone on this planet can pass a drivers test in America if they know how to turn on the car and put it in a parking space.

The people who buy the 550 and the people who buy a GT350 are mostly totally different people. People with money buy the 550 because it’s an investment. People with a lot less money buy the GT350 as a toy to roll out to the local classic car show in, maybe it will appreciate a little, but it is not an investment…

I guess so. In America, if you can’t get on the highway with it, it isn’t much use because everything is so far apart. 

I mean, if you want to drive your golf cart on the 70mph highway next to semi trucks and whatnot, be my guest, but for a normal car you are paying for more than just an engine and four wheels, you are paying for safety and regulation that says you probably won’t die in a crash and that isn’t $12,000 cheap, at least…

Subsidies are not forever. They are just to get the ball rolling on something. I doubt they will be around more than 5 years. It is like the cash for clunkers program, it was a short period of subsidies to get people off old inefficient cars. Just give up this pipe dream of a $12,000 car, it isn’t going to happen, or…

More like cost analysis probably shut it down. Anyone can say anything, that doesn’t mean its even remotely possible, unless again, it is a golf cart or similar with max speed of like 40mph and range of 30 miles. And with inflation edging prices up every year, we are LONG past a $12,000 car.

I am pretty sure this is NEVER going to happen unless its just a glorified golf cart. You can’t even buy a Mirage for that money anymore. 

Yeah, I want it to work more like a a normal paddle shift gas car where the regen change is on the fly like down shifting. Even some “rev matching” sound to go with it would be cool to so you can audibly tell how much regen you are getting.

Ok, I can see the paddles being useful in an electric car but ONLY for controlling the regen braking force going into a corner. I think it would be really useful to have different levels of regen that amplify with each pull of the paddle like if you were down shifting a manual or auto car, but it should reset on the…

Tools for sure because actual car parts are hard to buy even if you own and know the car sometimes, let alone someone who doesn’t.

I have tried probably 7-8 adapters this past year from low end to high end and none of them work well, at least not in my 2017 Ridgeline. They either freeze up, or don’t auto connect, or require rebooting several times per trip. I gave up because what I realized is they are all basically the same, maybe 2 or 3…

This is a totally different discussion. We are talking about over the air updates, not preinstalled features you pay to unlock. 

I could see that I guess, but again, you are still limited to the existing hardware, so they can only do so much, mostly bug fixes. I wish I could download a wireless car play update to my car instead of having to plug my phone in, but that’s totally different hardware.

Such as? And I don’t want to hear the doors open and play TSO either

What exactly are they going to be doing? You can’t download new hardware, so it seems like whatever they come up with will just be gimmicky to fit what is already in your car. Maybe you can unlock a power boost like in some EV’s, but what else can you do other than make fart sounds out of the speakers?

I actually went from the ‘98 Z24 to a 2001 SE-R SpecV Sentra, quite a nice upgrade and THAT car I do miss a lot. Should have kept it and VQ swapped it!