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:thumbsup: This ^^^ Each individual should be considering each change separately and on its own merits as those merits relate to that individual. Not blindly jumping at each change solely because it's "new". Norm

IOW, your basic Mach E customers. Any "transportation appliance" or "mobility device" would be the antithesis of what the [real] Mustang has stood for ever since its introduction. It represented a measure of defiance against the cars of its time in 1964, so perhaps it should retain that sort...

This ^^^ Even though it's not my kind of vehicle (for at least two reasons that have nothing to do with electric propulsion), it probably is the right vehicle for others. Norm

That's two strikes . . . (US baseball reference). Norm

This ^^^ Personal taste indeed. Norm

It's a start. Had to happen sooner or later. Performance is only part of the equation. I'm a little surprised that a member from the country that gave us MG, Austin-Healey, Lotus, and TVR is ignoring the driver involvement side. Norm

For that particular power curve shape I think a 4-speed with about 1.40:1 gear steps would work without making things too busy for the driver. As good as the Hurst shifters used to be, the kind of shifter that has no external linkage is so much nicer. Something like what this new offering from...

I think we'd need to see things like torque curves and efficiency curves before deciding out-of-hand that an electric motor couldn't benefit from operating through a multi-speed gearbox. Optimum acceleration performance comes from keeping the rpms of the powerplant within a reasonably tight...

That's your choice. As far as this thread is concerned, paying for gas with cash today is no different than it was when I first got my driver's license and had to start buying my own gas. $40 wouldn't empty my pocket of cash either. Norm

Key thought right there . . . And we're all going to evaluate various changes as being better or not better differently. We're "comfortably off", but not so well off that I'd ever be willing to spend $40k on something that I could not absolutely convince myself that I would enjoy owning and...

Dangerous . . . I hope you wouldn't. Unsuitable? Impossible for me to say. But I need a better reason to watch Richard Dawkins than simply having a link thrown at me. I may or may not be losing out on anything important to me. Since I can't hope to understand everything about everything, I'm...

Sort of. I'd still have to test-drive such a car, though. Norm

Not really. Like I said, if you can't put any effort into describing what's in the video, that tells me that it's likely to not be a valuable enough thing - valuable to me - to spend any time watching. Never mind that I'd much rather read text at my reading pace than try to listen to somebody...

Cash. Couple of $20s is almost always enough. I'm serious. Norm

Similar thoughts have crossed my mind. But I'm afraid I can't give you an answer any more definite than an electric motor/MT combination being closer to something I might be able to live with than any other EV configuration I've heard. The devil absolutely would lie in the details. Norm

As does the impatience being constantly demonstrated by those in favor of change with people who don't - or perhaps can't - cope with change as fast as they. Wait until you're on "fixed income". Think you'll feel the same way? Think you'll be able to, financially? Norm

Physically, perhaps, maybe even probably. It's the "coming up with the money to pay for it" part that isn't likely to ever be "relatively easy". Norm

With only a few exceptions, I'm not into watching videos to learn stuff either. Especially if the link to a video is not accompanied by a short text summary by the forum poster who provided the link. If it's not worth a few seconds of your time to hint at what I would be seeing, it's not...

That alone makes me a little uneasy. Norm

This ^^^ It always seems to have "impatience" in the background. Impatience that not everybody is as quick to embrace the same things that they have. Rubs me the wrong way, too. Norm