This would be acceptable but I just doubt they go this direction because it will result in less Sales. Remember that they discontinued the 6 Series. There is a whole in the lineup there. BMW barely sells any V12 equipped cars. They are not going to make a business case around a new car with a V12. The older 8…

This is exactly what I was going to say. This is an 8 series in name only. Someone had the bright idea in a meeting that to increase 6 series sales, it should be renamed the 8 series and this is the result. Blatant disrespect to their own heritage.

Volvo’s standard blades already cost $70/set, so I doubt it.

My intention was never to make this personal. I am recovered NYer, so communicate bluntly and can devolve to this after many back and forths, so I apologize as well that it came to that.

You know what they say about assumptions? I guess that makes you an ass then...are you? I can tell you that I am as far from an engineer as someone can be. You are a blatant example of an MBA who thinks their degree makes them better than the rest of the world, forgetting that every single person making decisions…

What I find funny is that you can’t even understand what the conversation is about. You made a statement that Tesla is not “Properly Planning”, not that they were rushing. One thing you also fail to address as you bring up parts is that Tesla is the most vertically integrated Automaker on the market, which is what…

Having worked somewhere in the past does not make one biased, just more informed than someone who makes uninformed statements like yourself. The Model S/X and the Model 3 are such different vehicles that trying to compare the two is pretty irrelevant. The entire point of Model 3 is simplifying the Manufacturing…

You answered my question. You are guessing based on no inside knowledge of their actual planning. It’s great that you have a degree and decades of experience, but guess what, so does every single person that works at Tesla doing Planning. As someone who spent 4 years at Tesla itself, I can tell you that whatever…

Is this based on your careful analysis of internal company documents and from sitting through countless company meetings to understand what planning has actually taken place or just your desire to be an armchair QB with no actual concrete information to base it off of?

Sure it could be a risk, but that is a different discussion than people saying they are rushing it. The term “rushing it” comes with negative connotations like you are cutting corners or not doing things properly, which is just not accurate. They are doing things differently which does carry risk, but Manufacturing…

These cars are being built 4-5 months before any “Production” cars. Understand what all of those first “Production” cars will be. They are cars for investors and employees. They will be located as close as possible to the factory so that they can be brought back for repairs. They did the same with Model S. I know…

Just because it is different than what people are used to doesn’t make it wrong. The reality is that everyone has always questioned every single thing that Tesla does. Going their own route has allowed them to become the brand that every other automaker is trying to match now when it comes to EV’s. This is a very…

What are you babbling about? Where did I say anything about development? I responded to a question about testing. Try to stay on topic. The person I responded to said “So they will have maybe a few days of test cars being built and maybe a couple of weeks of testing time before the “start” of production.” I…

Not quite. Release Candidates that are built on production tooling have been out testing since March 24th, https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/24/watch-the-tesla-model-3-release-candidate-take-its-first-drive/. They have already done a cross country trip with a Release Candidate, https://electrek.co/2017/04/29/tesla-model…

This entire thread is funny. Everyone on it is oblivious that outside of the US, the STi uses the FA20F. They even came out with a version with 323HP and 318ft-lbs in 2015, http://www.autoblog.com/2015/10/28/subaru-wrx-sti-s207-japan-official/.

Seeing the 767/787B/792P at Laguna is always a highlight. The pic attachment doesn’t seem to be working on here, so can’t add those but here is a video of the 792P going down the Laguna Straight...

Occasionally you have the guys that take the ungodly expensive cars and race them too hard and you end up with this...

As the owner of a V60 Polestar, I’m on board with your thought process

The EPA testing has cars at idle for only 11% of the time. As I already said, this results in a difference of .1-.2mpg. Someone’s driving style is going to have a much bigger difference in mpg than Start/Stop ever will.

You’ve obviously never driven a Volvo with Stop/Start then. It is a very intrusive system and 10 years driving it won’t make you forget it’s there. Stop/Start systems have also been proven to have almost zero effect on fuel economy(.1-.2mpg difference) which is why the EPA does not use them in MPG calculations.