I went to almost all of the Canepa shows this year and they truly are special but honestly rarely because of the C&C itself. Outside is pretty low key every month. It’s all the craziness within Bruce’s shop that make the event what it is.

Tesla’s patents are open to all Mfg’s but no one has been humble enough to bite the bullet and admit that Tesla knows how to do things better than them. Instead everyone else is sticking to the SAE standard that tops out at 50kW.

This shows you clearly don’t understand Tesla’s financials. Model S as a product, is profitable. In fact it is more profitable than any other vehicle on the planet at over 25% margins. The Roadster program was also profitable in case you were wondering. Tesla as a small company is wisely reinvesting those profits into…

Wrong. Tesla has a wide spread charging infrastructure that they can continue to update as they have already been doing since they opened. The power of the Superchargers has gone from 90 to 120kW since they were opened. Porsche on the other hand has no charging infrastructure and has to go through building one out.…

They do make money. You should try understanding financials before making dumb statements. The Roadster program was profitable, the Model S program is profitable. The fact that the company reinvests those profits into R&D is called smart. They have already had profitable quarters, so if that is all you care about, it…

No, it’s once a month, March-December. Last one of the year is this Saturday. http://www.100oct.com/cars-and-crois…

Here are a couple of my albums from there. You can decide for yourself.

I assume you are talking about this beast at Canepa.

That’s chassis 007. He comes out to the Santana Row C&C and had his car at the 1/2 mile drag event in Coalinga too that I went to.

Sorry Jason but to say that his system is operating at the same level as Tesla’s Autopilot is nothing short of ridiculous. He says he just got the system working the day before and then they almost hit a truck. It’s definitely interesting what he is doing, but it is a very long way from refined. This article stinks of…

Go ahead and dismiss my original comment as well then, so I am not associated with your sad excuse for an article.

Not sure what you are calling profanity, but if you can’t handle being wrong go for it.

Apparently you don’t know what a burner Account is. I have a normal Account that has been active for years, have 10 blogs posted and am followed by most of the major staff members on their pages, so get over yourself.

Then change your headline and say it clearly in your article, because you don’t. You casually mention it at the very end, but the rest of the article is basically saying it’s pointless to contact the Mfg at all.

Burner?!? Nice try Steve. I have an Account on here and 10 different blogs posted. No need to be a douche.

Steve, your advice is normally spot on but this one is just plain wrong. While this may be true for some Automakers, it is definitely not the case for all, so should not be a rule of thumb. A good example of an automaker this would not apply to is Volvo. Volvo NA regularly gets involved in Customer disputes and…

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…