There is no “title issue”. This can be registered like any clean title car anywhere in the country. Insurance rates generally aren’t excessively higher for R titles than clean ones either, from my own experience.

I don’t think that argument holds water if you want to buy a new car and intend to finance. New and used markets are totally different animals and should not be compared. If you’re financing it, total monthly cost is probably going to be lower for a Tesla or other comparable EV than a comparable ICE vehicle, depending…

Teslas are cheap. On average, people in America spend $175 on gasoline. That’s $2100 a year. Charging costs are much smaller. EV cost of ownership is comparable, if lower, than comparable ICE vehicles.

The Bolt was good technology wrapped in a package that was destined to fail in North America.

I mean, it’s about as bolt in an affair as a B16 into a Mini could possibly be. 100 hours sounds like a lot, but really it’s five weekends not working that hard. 

No, it literally is a bolt in swap: https://www.minimania.com/part/MT530000/Vtec-B-Series-Engine-Conversion-Kit-For-Mini-Cooper

I wrote the comment on the Aspen/Volare. Yes you can turn them up, like anything else. They’re still a low comp engine, and to make 250hp you’d need to do pistons and a cam, and hope the heads and blocks don’t break. After you’ve done all that, you still have a dogshit chassis, except now it has too much power.…

But America bad

R/T stands for “repeatedly trite”

Still not really a Mercedes chassis. Not sure how this myth sticks around. 

The GTO is the worst? How quickly you forget the Volare Road Runner and Aspen R/T.

They monitor the shit out of them, haven’t had a river fire in 53 years

Could probably make a relevant joke about “Crystal Shit” here, but I can’t think of one. 

Sounds cool

Embla sounds like a medication

A tire with a stiff sidewall will only absorb bumps a little bit better than a large wheel with low profile tires. But frankly, daily driver cars shouldn’t have tires with super stiff sidewalls. 

Miatas are significantly more boring and less fun to drive than a B in my own opinion. Miatas are a highly refined Japanese take on the MGB- the driving experience is pretty close, but Miatas corner more effortlessly and rarely have a mechanical issue. In this, the charm is lost. You don’t buy a B to build up a track…

It’s well documented that newer drivers have more accidents because of experience, not age. I would expect that a 19 year old driver with a year of driving under their belt would be better than that clown.

How is that relevant? He was 26 and had had a full CDL for 11 months at the time. Anyone over the age of 19 could have more commercial driving experience than him.