Bay Area highways are becoming unsafe to drive on. Just a few months ago on the parallel highway to 280, 101, someones car was impaled by a Motorcycle Sprocket and now this.

I think it’s time to take the Hummer concept but do it right. One word...Unimog! What can’t you do with one of these. The articles would write themselves. When’s the last time you drove a 16 speed?!? Here’s a fun example well within your budget with a clean FL title...

You specifically said, profit rate/car. A business being profitable and a product being profitable have nothing to do with each other. When you only have 1 product(I don’t count Model X yet as it’s still being launched) and are trying to grow as quickly as they are, it’s next to impossible to be profitable as a…

They have only delivered a handful of them, so more likely than not, yes. They said that Q1 should be cash flow positive, so Model X could be cash flow positive very quickly. A lot of the R&D cost was already spent over the last few years for Model S and a lot of the components are shared, minimizes additional…

Actually Tesla makes a higher profit on Model S at over 25%. Everyone just gets caught up in the financials of them reinvesting that money into R&D for future models, so the overall company profit is negative.

It’s much smaller than them, has a 4 cylinder and will probably start around $50k, so not in the same league.

You were complaining that he had written about it too much not that any one article was not good. You could have stopped after the first if you thought there were too many, but instead you decided to complain about it.

Yet you still spend your time reading it and further time commenting on it. No one is holding a gun to your head forcing you to do anything. Doug’s following on here is greater than any other writer, so as coy as he likes to play, he knows exactly what he’s doing.

It competes with the E Class/A6/5 Series and will be priced competitively with all of those.

I’m not really sure why you mention any of this, “All that from an underdog, run by a team with comparatively small budget and an engine that was not as competitive as the others.” when both cars are from the same company.

You say that like the 787 was successful. While it did win LeMans once, that was the only race it ever won. The entire Mazda racing program never really saw any success. The 792P caught on fire a couple of times from the exhaust in early races but did manage a few top 5 finishes. It also sounds glorious at WOT,

I’m partial to this rotary engined Prototype(792P) which was destroying everything on the track at the Historics including the 787.

Correct, It’s an Agera R. Only a measly 1115hp. It was actually pretty ugly in person. The car wasn’t bad, but the color combo was awful.

There is already an Agera RS here...

If you care strictly about track driving, there are EV’s for that. Kleenspeed built this thing that posted a 1:32.046 at Laguna Seca back in 2012. That’s just 4 seconds off the record set this year by the Viper ACR.

The national MPG avg is 23.8mpg. 36mpg is a HUGE improvement! It is more than a 50% improvement in the worst part of the country! When you go to places in the country that have actually left the stone age with their power grids, like where I live, that number goes up to 87MPG! Please show me this magical 87mpg gas car…

So are you just misinformed or just like to troll EV articles? If you want to actually educate yourself, you can watch this, EV vs Gas Wheel to Well explained. It very simply explains the newest study released just last week that shows no matter where you are in the country, driving an EV will be more efficient than…

Yes, you’re missing the many years of Tesla bashing on this and every other site. There was a very long time when Jalopnik would go out of its way to bash Tesla. Luckily Ray and Matt have moved on, so that has mostly stopped, but it was constant and ugly.

I’m in full agreement. This doesn’t sound like anything special. I think this really highlights that the Abarth really only sounds decent because of the muffler delete, otherwise would sound puny like this as well. Take the muffler off most cars and they will sound pretty throaty.

These Specs are so sad I don’t even know where to begin. They have essentially matched the Specs of the original Tesla Roadster released in 2008. So 8 years later, Audi has been able to accomplish what a brand new Silicon Valley company did in their 1st try. In case you are wondering, Tesla improved the Roadster just…