Easy, they know people want cheap gas. If there is no cheap gas, what they want means little. That said, with looming $3 gas, our gas is still insanely inexpensive.

They are looking at fuel economy for the sake of emissions, not for better mpg alone. Ethanol improves emissions

It makes sense for future engine production. That said, there’s a good chance ethanol will be the future for present cars. We just need to find something better than corn to make it. If it reduces fuel economy, that means little if the emissions are far better.

All for the idea but the Europe comparison is extremely misleading. Their 95 octane isn’t even as good as our 93 octane. Completely different scales.

Part of the problem is Musk. He’s a big chunk of the vision of Tesla, but almost all of the problem.

And you’ll get your car in +4 years if you put your deposit down now.

And you’ll get your car in +4 years if you put your deposit down now.

They keep fixing things with not making real progress after those fixes.

They keep fixing things with not making real progress after those fixes.

So everyone that drives with autopilot is being saved by it? Alright Elon😂

So everyone that drives with autopilot is being saved by it? Alright Elon😂

They can’t staff for two shifts without having to fire tons of people. They’re gonna have a terrible time with 3 shifts.

They can’t staff for two shifts without having to fire tons of people. They’re gonna have a terrible time with 3 shifts.

A successful business that hasn’t made a penny of profit?

Manipulative over-promising is what’s terrible. There cars aren’t terrible, unless you’re talking about their quality control which is pretty important.

Some complex math for Elon

My company has 12 vans with ecoboost. The only vans that haven’t had massive drivetrain issues are still under 20k miles but one of our vans over 50k had its engine replaced at 25k and another had a bad turbo from the factory. We had to run it while we waited for parts and a slow time in business. I think it had 8k…

Not saying anything bad about the car but 50k isn’t a good reliability benchmark. 100k or even 150k should be what we look for with modern performance cars. Economy cars should all be ticking 200k before any real issues.

We need to grow up. Automatics are better. Performance cars shouldn’t look to stay in the past. Nostalgia should only go so far with performance. Do you want a 4 speed manual? Because people thought 5 gears was too many and the same with 6 speeds.

When were manuals cheaper than automatics? Always maybe?😂