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From what I've read, battery capacity diminishes faster with high recharge rates. Exactly what you'd be doing on a trip. Supposedly it's already possible to get 500 high-rate recharges with some batteries without them dropping below 80% capacity. Though that lost 20% would gradually force...

That's what I'm afraid it'll evolve into. Norm

The thing is, a landline has a use today that would have never been foreseen back in the day . . . screening out robocalls and other unwanted calls. Norm

Build a Pro-Touring car. Norm

Maybe you misread mine instead. That'd be my question as well. So if the older aspects of the S550 aren't holding it back enough (technically) to justify a revolutionary redesign it doesn't make a lot of sense to me to do an extensive redesign. That leaves evolutionary changes. I'm not sure...

Exactly. I was trying to stay away from any MT vs AT side-track and was assuming that you were already aware where I stand on that. Of course, an EV takes that a step further by eliminating all shifting other than among P, R, D, and perhaps N. I guess it might be if that's the way you tend to...

Misses the whole point of driving a sports car. Yes, it's partly about the car. But it's also roughly equal parts driver, and an EV is going to refine a lot of the driver's involvement out. Zero to 60 in the threes, or twos, is strictly drag racing (and will presumably involve the electronics...

I know I've never heard the term 'tophat' before. What does it mean/what does it include? Devil's advocate . . . isn't evolution a less expensive path than revolution? And less likely to alienate existing customers? Norm

Maybe the root problem is an inability or unwillingness to set the need for excitement aside and pay attention to what the car is doing and what it's trying to tell you . . . Norm

Drag race vs HPDE might be the difference between frantic excitement and composed satisfaction, I guess. Big torque at low speeds is for the most part wasted in road course driving. Certainly so at HPDE and time trialing where the "start" is not a standing-start launch like it is at drag...

Are you sure about that? The new administration is poised to roll back at least one of the emissions regulation relaxations that the previous administration pushed through. Let's talk about an EV Mustang's situation, where it's not the only car needing to be fed at the home recharging trough...

I personally expect to enjoy driving any car I buy. The kool-aid matter of EV acceleration aside (that's doing a much too good of a job of pulling enthusiasts into the EV camp before they realize that there's more to driving than straight lines), EVs are really more about being 'mobility...

Or restomod . . . Norm

From a couple of 70-somethings . . . priceless :crackup: :crackup: Norm

Exactly opposite to what makes a performance car easy to drive all the time, under wider conditions than just sunny and warm. Very much opposite to what you'd want on a road course, where fine throttle modulation - by you, not some computer - is your friend. Light-switch on-off power could...

My Dad drove up until a week before he passed at age 91. I expect no less of myself if I make it that far. Norm

That's not enough for me either. If that's all a car has to give me, it's a negative because access to that measure of performance requires so little thought or skill that even a caveman could do it. Norm

Getting 'gapped' doesn't mean squat to me. No different now with the Mach E on the automotive landscape than it was 50 years ago when the other car would have had a big-block and my car would have had at most a 302 or a 327 or a 340 under the hood. Hell, I'd rather buy another 4.6L S197 than...

You're missing the point. I was commenting on 1500 HP coming from 1.5 liter engines. When you find a 5.2L GT500 putting out 5200 emissions-legal HP and not saddled with much of a gas-guzzler tax, check back in. At something like 145 HP/L, the GT500's engine has a huge way to go to get to the...

The new WRX uses an equal-length header into the turbocharger inlet, so you get evenly spaced exhaust pulses. Think of this as being comparable to an X-pipe for a crossplane V8. The STi used an unequal header design because of its turbocharger location being off to one side of the engine, and...