Any one voting no dice hasn’t shopped a first gen lately. Clean ones are selling around $15k. This looks to be very clean. If it’ll start the motors probably good. Nice price all day!

It’s not about getting it or not getting it. Cancelled or not cancelled. Funny or not funny. It’s about having the freedom to say what you want. You may not like what someone has to say and more power to you. Just because you don’t like doesn’t mean it should go away or even worse you should try to erase it.

Drop the Hp in half and now you have an Elise successor. Elises and Lotus’s in general are not horsepower cars. They are lightweight and nimble. Glad to hear they are trying to get the lightweight part in line and be electric. Dropping the power requirement would go a long way towards that.

Minus the Panther platform stuff all these cars are unmitigated crap boxes that have tons of reliability issues. Especially the way older stuff. hardly any of the stuff from 60's or 70's would last much past 100k miles if it made it that far.

The factory is out on the WAY east side. Land and housing is still pretty cheap over there. I work about 2 miles from the new factory and it’s basically undeveloped farm land, cheap tract houses and 40 acre mini ranches. The good news is I won’t have to drive 10 miles for lunch very soon with all the development this…

No manufacturer will want to invest a dime in internal combustion engine promotion regardless of what that fuel is. Everything is going electric, that’s just how it is. We have plenty of gasoline to go around for a very long time. Investing any money in something that we know will be obsolete in 10-15 years is just a…

Speaking of weird Tuckers there was a car that used to make that rounds in southeastern Mass. car shows back in the day that was supposedly a tucker engineered thing. It looked to have been made in the 70's and had fenders that moved with wheels. It also had a weird pivoting drivers seat to help get in and out. Don’t…

I had an FR-S and Miata at the same time in my garage. The FR-S sat most of the time so I eventually sold it. The Miata is a lot more fun to drive. The Miata just does what you want it to do at any speed. You want it to stick the corner, it sticks it. Want to slide the back end around a bit on that same corner at the…

For me it’s all about the transmission. I wish they could be had in a manual but that will never happen. That leaves the Santa Cruz with the DCT. It’s the closest you can get to a manual in either vehicle.

I think you kind of argued against your own point. In 1984 the C4 dash was crazy high tech and people I’m sure thought it was unrepairable. Now basically a toddler can do it. The same thing will happen with current tech. It seems crazy now but tools and knowledge will have advanced to make it seem simplistic.

Figuring a 5 star hotel costs ~$300/night I know where I’d rather spend 100 nights...

I’m actually surprised the auto OEMs are having custom chips made. Most if not all of the functionality they need is available in off the shelf IC’s.

This exact inverter was our only life line during the texas freeze. Only power and heat we had came from that bad larry. We were able to power a small heat gun(2oo watts) and a laptop along with charging some bigger dewalt batteries. The bigger batteries I could run a large heat gun off of for ~30 minutes and it took…

Agreed but I have a huge bias towards hating these vehicles. A guy in one literally pushed me off onto the shoulder on my scooter at a merge as I beeped, yelled, then punched his hood and fender repeatedly.

Anything BMW M series. Fantastic driving and looking cars(well minus the latest iteration) but just dog shit for reliability.

I don’t get RV’s at all. For the cost of an RV you could travel first class and stay at some amazing hotels. Then not be bothered with the upkeep, storage and depreciation involved with an RV.

This isn’t specific to Texas. In pretty much all 50 states if you want murder someone do it with your car. Even if found guilty the penalties are WAY less.

I had someone “roll coal” on me a few months ago. It was so bad at 40mph I couldn’t even see the front of my car. Tried to report them but the program to report vehicles that smoked excessively in Texas was ended a few years. That basically legalized this stupidity.

This reads like a Subaru press release or a paid amazon review. The car is atrocious end of story.

That could be part of the reason but it’s more laziness and styling. There are cars out there that are making 50% more power and on track using every bit of it lap after lap. The thermal loads should be similar if not more. They somehow manage to look good doing it with much less exposed grill.