Relevant fact: if the government wasn’t invested, none of it would have happened... and we all know how good the government is at wisely investing our money.

None of your reference material addresses the manufacturing of the batteries and their disposal after their life cycle is complete. The only political spin is that we are using batteries that are being manufactured in other countries.

Ironically, in this particular case, the drivetrain is a secondary offense to the fact that there are no suicide doors and that the production car looks NOTHING like the concept!

We love to ignore the environmental impact, from the beginning of manufacturing of a Tesla, to the generation of electricity to charge it, to it’s disposal after it’s useful life, because it is arguably worse than the environmental impact of a comparable internal combustion car.

I’m in the same boat and mindset. Further more, I’d have a tune and no DPF if I had the time to research and get it done.

Bmw cheats on exhaust sound, VW cheats on emmisions, Mercedes cheats on fake leather, Ford cheats on gas mileage, Audi cheats on RS horsepower, and Subaru cheats on its lesbian girlfriend.

Technically it has 4 f-15E / f-16c/d engines. It was one of the smarter decisions to use common engines to the rest of the air force fleet.

For a brief moment in time, when we found out that this was out

It’s always been this way. A select few drive their high performance cars to their limits, but most fall into a spectrum, ranging from “I wanted the best” at their worst, to “I appreciate the engineering and performance in a mostly-road legal fashion”

Honda screwed up with the Hondajet too. Because they are new to the certification process, their approval is at least 5 years later than it should have been, which has allowed its more experienced competitors to sprint past Honda’s modest advantages. Anyone can make an amazing prototype experimental machine to blow…

Texans aren’t afraid of the Feds. We’re taking the opportunity provided by Jade Helm to remind the Feds that we never trusted them to start with.

You are right, wasn’t weird.

Was that you UTHorsey? Smelling your fingers in between strokes in public?

A kid throwing a tantrum, say under 5 years old, is a non-threat to anyone on the plane. When mom tells the crew that her 15 year old is about to start scratching if she doesn’t get her way, she becomes a physical threat to those around her.

You can take any sort of solid food through security, or as mentioned, buy something hot (on the secure side of the terminal.) this was a failure of the parents to adequately prepare for their daughters needs and then EXPECTING the airline to accomodate their special request, or else suffer a meltdown complete with…

What happened to the good ole days of class+displacement? 3.0 3-series was a 330?

I drove my Dad’s euro-spec ‘82 E28 535i in high school while he was stationed in Germany in the Army. I have stories for days about sleeping in it on ski trips, doing 200 clicks in the rain on the autobahn, going to party in Frankfurt... All my good high school stories happened in that car.

'04-'05's all had sketchy mixing valves. It's a quick and cheap fix.

"If I don't enjoy a few of the perks of being a grown man along the way, I'm going to have a mid-life crisis that will make a Miata payment look like a really good idea."

If you're planning to make modifications that are outside of your regular skillset, hire out that part or triple the time you need to do it.