I really like Musk, but now he's starting to sound too cocky -____-
I really like Musk, but now he's starting to sound too cocky -____-
"All transport, with the ironic exception of rockets, will go fully electric," Musk said at the Automotive News World Congress. "The question is when it goes fully electric."
Now, I like Elon Musk. The Tesla Model S lift back is my favorite EV. It's American made. MERICA! The only automaker to come close is BMW, with its i-series hybrids and range-extended EVs, and GM, with its Volt. The Chevrolet Spark EV has a ton of power (because GM doesn't restrict power), but it torque steers like…
Exactly. Producing cars is a huge, incredibly expensive, complex, rigorous undertaking and even if you manage to produce a car you still have to win the PR battle and get people to believe in and buy your cars. Tesla has succeeded in that. Their problems today are in comparison much smaller. They have proven the brand…
Yeah... I get it. Its super easy to make fun of Tesla and the perceived playthings of the rich they produce. But Tesla deserves way more credit than this article alludes to. Tesla is even now a TINY automaker with production that doesn't even make a blip on the radar compared to GM, Ford, Toyota and other major…
S2000 because convertible. Done.
Here's my dad and his 37 chevy not long after I was brought home from Portsmouth (NH) Hospital in late 1948...
1: So let's take a normal Miata with perfect 50:50 weight distribution, pull a few hundred pounds off the nose and reduce the power with a weak-sauce 12A, lose the EFI's driveability and bodge together a replacement-parts nightmare. Add big-ass wheels and spray it in Resale Red. Make sure nobody who lives in a…
In theory, CVT's should be the most efficient since you can constantly stay at peak HP. I'm honestly surprised with race teams and Hypercars turning to Hybrid systems, that all performance cars haven't turned to CVTs
All right—I know they're a subject of (rather undeserved, IMHO) hate and derision, but taking a CVT onto a racetrack is uber-lulz. My Lancer sounds like a continuous whirrrr of angry bees the whole time.
If you've ever whined about smoothness between gear shifts (especially with a conventional automatic), whine no…
I completely lucked out, and came home on my mom's lap in my parent's 1967 E-type.
A Citroen DS!
I cam home in my dad's 1973 Volvo 1800es in yellow.
I also learned how to drive stick in it.
Be jealous...
1960 Corvair
1959 Jaguar XK150. My father had just finished restoring it, and it was his pride and joy. Somewhere, we've got a photograph of my parents holding me, standing in front of it, right after coming home from the hospital.
@fintail: Hey, more gas for us, right?
I don't know, I kind of like most of them. I mean, it's pretty unique to have a wholly electric car, why not? I have no problem especially with "A TESLA" or "TESLAAA." "ELEQUIK" is pretty clever too.
@mechanicalTurk: Fortunately for the Tesla owners, and unfortunately for you, nearly everything you said in your first paragraph is provably untrue.
It should be something like IPWNU or something since most Tesla owners win at life.
I don't have the money to buy one yet, but I am reserving my plates now: EDSN SUX