I work with polymers for a living, see my other reply here. Just pointing out that the use case for your examples is much different than it would be for internal engine/transmission components.

One thing that none of those CFRP components you linked must do is withstand high heat loads. Heat has a much greater effect on polymers than it does on steel or aluminum.

Like I said, it’s not a question of given enough time with my car. When mine was listed for sale it went up around 9 am and I had purchased the car by 1 pm that afternoon. If I didn’t already have a financing check in hand (I was looking at buying an E46) then I would have lost the car, someone else showed up ready to…

20 years ago if you said you were working on a CFRP wheel which would withstand going 250+ mph you would have been laughed at. Now they’re starting to become available at the consumer level, at around 3-5x more expensive than a high-performance forged wheel and falling. Don’t completely discount the possibility of…

Plastics engineer here!

Well then whatever resale value your’s has is also the manual premium, as any early 3rd gen automatic TL with that many miles is a grenade missing it’s pin.

I also own a entry-lux sedan with a V6 and manual, a TL type S, and the used market is completely the opposite. They only sold a few thousand with the manual transmission and at any given time there are only a few dozen available for sale in the U.S. I live in the 10th largest metro area in the country and at any…

Don’t you own a TL? They have much higher resale value with the 6 speed. My Type S is worth anywhere from $3-5k more than an equivalent automatic version.

The gym maybe, but I really like exercising for extended periods of time. Whether cycling, soccer, sailing, hiking, etc. I can go for hours and enjoy every minute of it. Except jogging. Fuck jogging.

I’d bet the CT6 is nowhere near as refined as the 7 though. That weight has to come from somewhere.

That’s not a huge concern for a part that’s only assembled a few hundred times per year.

That includes luxury vehicles and likely trucks and SUVs as well, which skews the numbers. For example, the average american family has a net worth of $528,000, but most families in america are worth much less than that. I’d be more interested to see the median car payment, including used car loans.

$500/month would buy a pretty nice car, a Civic or Corolla is in the neighborhood of $300/month. Regardless, anyone making $35k should be buying used. I make more than double that and I’ve still never bough a new car.

She was 22-23 in Elf, and that movie is over a decade old.

Lilly Pulitzer lived in Palm Beach, Florida and died just over two years ago at the age of 81. That should explain everything.

For a car this expensive you’d think they would make it a 4 seater and clean this whole area up. It’s doesn’t look befitting of a $300k car. It’s not like anyone who owns one doesn’t also have a Range Rover/Escalade in their garage for people moving.

Not at all, 5 v-spoke wheels look good on anything, and the contrasting offset (which I guess makes it technically a 10 spoke) is a nice touch.

If there’s one thing GM knows how to do right it’s making full size trucks and SUVs. They go back and forth with Ford for leadership of the truck market (Chevy + GMC) and completely dominate the SUV market, outselling Ford by a 4:1 margin last month. Obviously their product is better at meeting the market’s needs than…

The center shifter offers no discernible benefit and takes up more space than it needs to. Kind of like OHC truck engines come to think of it.

GM full size trucks have them as well. Would you rather have a dashboard shifter? There’s nothing wrong with antiquated if it works. Many people say the OHV engine layout is antiquated but it works great and there are tons of advantages to using it.