Yeah, that’s totally fair, and to be fair, my province (BC) deserves a lot of the blame for the prairie provinces not having access to hydro. We make enough that we sell off our excess energy all the way to California, but inexplicably, we don’t think to look to our eastern kin and provide them options.

Yep, like I said, Honda still has 125s available on the global market, and they share that motor across a few different models.

And then dump $10K in maintenance, gas, increased insurance and breakdowns over the next few years.

It’s funny, the Zero FX has shot up to the top of my list for my favourite dual sport/dirt bikes. All the torque means I don’t have to clutch dump. The silence means I’m not pissing off anyone in the area. The on-demand tuning means I can crawl without wearing my clutch. The lack of a spinning motor means if I dump it…

Almost.

In a world where >150HP, torquey bike engines exist and are plentiful, and small econo-hatches are making 180HP from factory, I stand by the assessment that 91HP from a completely custom engine swap is insufficient.

I believe Honda is one of the only ones who still offers a 125cc globally. Kawasaki, Suzuki and Yamaha haven’t had one in the global market for a long, long while now, with Suzuki using a 250, Yamaha using a 321 and Kawasaki using a 400 for their entry level bikes on the global market.

Poor lad’s eyesight must be going in his old age, because everything he’s done since the initial launch of the S has been ugly.

Jesus, did he suffer a concussion after the S? Because every other body he’s designed after the initial S sucks.

It’s only 91HP. It would be far from sufficient in an automotive application.

I really can’t imagine why I’d pay that kind of money for one of them. If I want stupid power from a cruiser, I could do an M109R and not have to deal with the diving of a longitudinally-mounted engine, plus have a substantially more powerful bike, and still be in for less money.

To be fair, calling anything by its stock name in most competitive motorsports is kinda pointless. A Trophy Truck has nothing in common with the original truck. A LeMans GT3 car is essentially a one off that pretends to be a consumer car. A Prostock dragster is little more than a tubeframe with a fibreglass shell over…

Canada does tax renewable energy, in a round-about way. The overwhelming majority of our country uses provincially-owned hydroelectricity. The rate the population pays goes directly back to the government.

*Proceeds to list a bunch of things that aren’t the looks*

I just mentioned in my own comment, but something else they need is a competent designer. The Model S is attractive, but everything else succeeding it has ranged from merely unappealing, to downright ugly. If you’re asking for $130,000 for a mild refresh, you need to justify that ask. Get the original designer back,…

Oof, Tesla needs to go back and get whoever design the Model S back. There’s a very clear design language shift between everything up to the Model S (Wherein it was all attractive), and everything after it (Wherein it was all unattractive). If you’re asking for $130K for a car, you had damn well better look the part,…

God I hate it when they do that. Listen, if you’re going to do a performance brand, commit to it. The “half-measure” badge jobs just dilute the value of that performance brand.

...Canada?

Europe needs to also get that sorted. It blows my mind that the Euro5 regulations have basically only killed off the small, efficient bikes. Hell, a few bikes actually intentionally moved up to a larger motor, because it meant more relaxed regulations. Meanwhile, basically every street legal option from Suzuki and…

...In spite of the fact that cars now represent a fairly small contribution to greenhouse gas emissions. You can hardly fault them for not wanting their <14% contribution to be held as the only focal point for climate change.