>You might say, “but at least we are cleaning up the air”. Yeah, we did that experiment in LA in April. If 100% of SoCal’s tens of millions of cars were replaced overnight with Teslas? We’d reduce smog by 14%. Really. That’s all.

Oh gee, a definitely not 100% reduction in automotive emissions led to a 1/7 reduction in…

>I don’t get much detail other than that; the estimated cost to repair it was well beyond the value of the van with 130,000 miles on it.

It certainly had to be much less than $75000 for a new conversion van when you’ve already paid for one to be converted. I’m not here to begrudge you the purchase because I’m sure…

Granted they only made 75 of them but the Cosworth STI put down about 395/380.