Why?

Yep. And if tire sound isn’t enough, as long as the heat or A/C are on in my EV it is no more silent than my last ICE vehicle, which was so quiet I had multiple neighbors ask if it was an EV. If you’re going neighborhood speeds, pretty much any modern vehicle is effectively as quiet as an any other, and if you’re at…

Yep. A few years ago, the small AL town I grew up in and my parents still live in did a pretty big project to install/repair sidewalks and make the downtown area more walkable. They dgaf about emissions or public health, they just have the budget because their roads are only having to deal with about 3,000 cars and…

Ok, hear me out! Take the HR-V, make it moderately more powerful, but keep the CVT, and also make it uglier and more expensive! What do you think?

Seriously. Assholes all around.

Yeah, somewhere the numbers are funky. For the payment to work out to $3,840 at 10.85% with 40% down, the purchase price would be $625k with $250k (more than the value of the car) down lol

Yeah, just working in reverse from this. Monthly payment of ~$3,840 at 10.85% APR would indicate a principal of ~$375k. Resulting in the roughly $920k total referenced in the article.

Actually it might be even worse, bc I don’t think the numbers in the article work out. Checking my math with Tom..

Tom, I know you facilitate purchase/leases for a living, so you might be thinking of something I’m not, but would $89k be the correct down payment? That would be 40% assuming a sale price of $222,500, which would make the financed amount only $133,500 at 10.85% for a monthly payment of only $1,364. By my math, the…

To make money on a flip you don’t just have to sell the car for more than MSRP, you have to sell it for more than you bought it for. Based on some quick math, it looks like the principal value on this loan would be about $375k, plus the $89k down and you’re in for $464k. I know there are plenty of idiots with money…

Yeah, I get that. I just meant that the idea that adding relays would get us to his proposed “petabit/second” speeds was bullshit. I probably shouldn’t comment on topics that annoy me if I’m not going to take the time to be coherent. My b.

Yeah, sorry. I should have been more specific. I’m actually an electrical engineer (although emag is not remotely my area of interest/expertise), so I’m familiar signal degradation and SNR. I just meant that the idea that adding relays would get us to his “petabit/second” speed is bullshit. I guess I get pissy and…

Or go one further, and just have bus and train services in the US that don’t suck ass. I understand that expanding our rail infrastructure would be a very expensive long-term investment, but even improving the experience of rail travel on our existing lines could go a long way. And there’s no reason bus travel HAS to…

That seems to be part of the idea. The other part amounts to basically “throw a few signal boosters between here and there”, or, you know.. bullshit.

Lmao. Now when they burn out and crash coming out of a cars and coffee the wheels will fly off. So much more opportunity for destruction!

I’m thinking they just chose that pic to have something cool to put in the header. I don’t see anywhere it mentions it actually being an EV. That would indeed be near impossible.

Don’t forget, most of them won’t have the wheels pushed out to match the new fender width, so they will look like absolute trash.

Yep. Honda was bundling a rebranded Juicebox charger with the Prologue, so that’s what I’ve got in my garage. Not a big deal for me from a features perspective since I just plug in before I go bed and unplug when I leave in the morning, but this happened just in time to keep me from getting the $700 rebate from my…

I hope your enthusiasm for the car returns. I understand the timing was garbage and the issue shouldn’t have happened in the first place, but in the grand scheme of things it seems like a small roadbump to let completely ruin the car for you.

Look at the tread on those tires! I think it’s salvageable.