I have nothing against EV’s. I just prefer to row my own gears still and will continue to do so for at least another 10 years.

Its funny because I think CDs are a more apt comparison. We primarily use streaming, but have a few records for when we have guests over and want something tangible to flip though. I even know indie bands and artists that still use cassette tapes but don’t own a computer with a disc drive.

Driven multiple electric vehicles, it really depends what cars you owned before, that will colour your perception of them. If you’re going from a 10 year old economy car to +$50k electric they’ll seem amazing. However, if you’re a rational person and you’re ending a 3 year lease, on a new entry level luxury car, you…

“This is how cars are supposed to sound, man!”

“Internal combustion engines will eventually go the way of vinyl”

Fair enough. 

I genuinely think most people who are against EVs are ones who’ve never driven them.

The E-Tron also costs over $22k more than a Q5. They may need to  work on that a bit. 

Isn’t vinyl the bestselling physical format for music? Not sure what going the way of vinyl means.

But he’s not trolling - that’s the point. Torch is writing legitimate articles about real problems that the stans are determined to convince everyone either don’t exist or are grossly exaggerated. And if they happen to acknowledge that the situation actually exists, it’s because us “legacy car drivers” just don’t get…

Called it. A similar regulatory difference between manual and automatics is why the PDK equipped 991 GT3 was more fuel efficient than the manual car, despite the manual car being lighter and them having the same engine and approximately the same gearing. For fuel economy testing in manual cars the shift points are…

What’s wrong with you millennial snowflakes? 

Remember that when this regulation was written (1984), many cars only had 4 speeds, with the 4th being an overdrive (I.E. you were drag limited in 3rd, 4th was for fuel economy). So a WOT pull in 3rd covered pretty much the entire speed range the car could do. It probably seemed like a pretty reasonable approximation…

A completely asinine regulation. Anyone doing WOT in 3rd gear, in town, in a Porsche GT3 is going to get his raggeddy ass tossed into a cold, wet, 10x10 cell for offenses far worse than a friggin’ noise violation.

TBF, this guy brought his birds with him to pick up his car, so he probably has a Ken doll crotch anyhow.

Fully secured airbag subscription price of $10/month

So yeah, I’m just going to take this explosive device and leave it dangling above my genitals by the wires that set it off...

Of all the things to forget to bolt down it had to be one of the more dangerous components. One with a small explosive inside of it.

My first thought was electric XF wagon. Take my money!

Jaguar should just find a structural in-wheel motor skateboard maker that will customize it to their specs. That’s the future of automobile design. Jaguar should just worry about making it pretty. There is no good reason for them to be doing anything else in 2021 and wasting perfectly good R&D by literally reinventing…