The funny thing with me is the silence and smoothness is what bores me to death in cars and makes me want to get something else. I daily drove a Jag XKR for a year or two and while it was a really nice car by all means and had all the features I’d never had in the classics I was driving up to that point (like 60s and…

Yeah, more and more electronics in cars is more of a turnoff for me. I like gadgets and toys to some degree, but for daily use things get a little different. Where I work just started producing electric industrial trucks recently and it is the biggest headache to get them working and keep them working sometimes. You…

Easy, “green image”.  They wouldn’t put in tons, but a few spots with an EV charger is an easy chance at a press release about “going green”, even if they don’t support them or keep them maintained.

‘What do you compare it with?’ You can’t compare the e-tron with a car which is $20,000 or $30,000 less expensive.”

General Motors understands truck buyers...

Capitalism will grind your bones to dust and then get you really invested in dog fighting.

So if Tesla makes a pickup truck that people are going to “bro up” with lift kits and huge tires, are coal rollers still going to block them from EV charging stations?  There’s a civil war brewing amongst us...

Yeah, it was the “Kleenex” of economy vehicles as the saying goes.  My grandpa kept talking about one to drive to work about 20 minutes down the highway because it’s the first car that comes to mind for fuel economy, but we were explaining to him that he could get a Hyundai that would get just as good if not better…

Ding ding ding.  Was going to suggest the same thing.  Though if he wants something a little more comfortable a Scat Pack Challenger would be my second pick.

a pretty good amount of Prius drivers bought in to save on gas

Yeah, I get that there needs to be a standard for repeatable testing and comparisons, but I just want it to be a little closer to reality so the results are actually applicable to the majority of collisions you would have in a car.  It does sound like the sled at least has some crumple to it, so that’s better than I…

Right, but if that difference is 50% extra material in a vehicle, that’s a lot of extra mass that is really doing you next to no good in standard practice. It would be like carrying 4 coats around everywhere you go because it might get cold enough to need them all when in reality one would be fine.

Didn’t know it was honeycomb to begin with, so that at least nullifies some of my concern.  Sounds like there is some amount of crumple built in at least, so it would be repeatable even if it isn’t as representative of an actual crash, so that makes more sense to me.  I feel like they used to just be a concrete…

Does the moving sled on a crash test have any energy absorbing capacity itself?  That’s one potential issue I see with “reality” when it comes to crash testing.  I get that having a standard repeatable test makes the most sense because it gives you an even playing field between multiple cars, but at the same time I…

Yeah, I actually went on a road trip to Detroit with my parents in the back of my dad’s Challenger a few years ago.  It was fairly comfortable, aside from the horrible exhaust drone because of the mods the previous owner had done.  But the seats were nice at least, lol.

People keep acting like EVs don’t require any cooling, but pretty much all those motors and battery packs are liquid cooled, so a grille and radiator could still be necessary. A lot of that management is done with heaters and even A/C nowadays, so they might be less prevalent, but if you can do it with ambient cooling…

There is technically a back seat, but it’s more of a vestigial organ than usable space for humans.

I think the main reason that GM didn’t go up against Tesla is they were trying to put out something cheaper. The Tesla is a nice enough car, but it is priced in the luxury market (at least the S, back when that’s all they really had). The Model 3 really isn’t all that cheap yet either. GM isn’t really a luxury…

I wonder how many of them are really just third brake light holders that they made into spoiler shapes so they looked at least a little less out of place.  I think the Stealth one is actually aerodynamically sound though.  It takes the flow coming down the back window and controls it better than waiting for it to…

This isn’t really anything new.  My Viper did exactly this back in 2004.  The exterior handles are just switches that pop the latch.  The gen 2s even did this.  On the inside it looks like a regular door handle, but the first portion of the pull trips a switch to pop the latches, but it also pulls a mechanical cable…