Colo MMJ
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They are surprisingly cheap but I would guess the cost of maint and fixing things up is not cheap. There is a Germany company that refurbishes them.
What's your dream car?
jonsnow399
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They show up on Ebay every once in a while, they were about 250k to 500k depending on condition.
jonsnow399
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He may be a dinosaur but he's right about Teslabob lutz is a dinosaur & pretty much hates all electric cars....ask why he crushed all the GM EV1's?.....
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doublejj
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I don't think so...
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Colo MMJ
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He is 85 years old but he knows more about cars and trucks than most of the people in the industry. I am not anti or pro for internal combustion or electric. The electrical grid will not support hundreds of thousands of plug in electrics, Tesla battery issues and many other things create a lot of other issues too.bob lutz is a dinosaur & pretty much hates all electric cars....ask why he crushed all the GM EV1's?.....
I think the hybrid is a better option or hydrogen. Hybrids like turbo diesel hybrids.
Ford's Fiesta in Europe gets 65 mpg and probably closer to 73 mpg. VW diesels can probably get 80 mpg or more. I think the whole VW thing was the powers that be do not want super high mpg vehicles. California was terrified that Prius would reduce gas usage and gasoline taxes. Politicians love money.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2008-09-03/the-65-mpg-ford-the-u-dot-s-dot-cant-have
Lutz oddly has predicted the car business will be dead around 2025 saying that people will get around in automated pod cars aka self driving. F that.
It's why we shelved it and went with SR-72. BTW when hubby flew the embassy route he carried the USAF CC for Jet fuel. He got used to signing for weight with no $$ attached LOL thanks Uncle Sam.It probably also doesn't soak up about $200 000 a year in maintenance. The tires are $40 000 a set and last three thousand miles. The wheels are 50 000 replacement every ten thousand. Then there is the famous $20K oil change. If you want a roadgoing SR-71, ya gotta pay for all that JP-7.
The Tesla does look good (except I do not like that "Iron Man is pissed" front end), rather like the new NS-X but without all the offensive body bling of that model. Honda's cars, once icons of classical severity, now shout "Pontiac!" I am getting old and crotchety about today's almost greenhouse-less cars.
I do wonder if that 250-mph figure is real. It takes about a thousand horsepower to sustain that speed. With a 200-kWh power pack (and unrealistically stipulating the entire charge may be used at max draw) at 800 kW, that figures to 15 minutes at speed. Drops a zero off the range figure
153,000 lb ....... JP-4
Colo MMJ
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I think that was the biggest worry when Koneigsegg broke the record in Nevada a few weeks ago or the McLaren F1 at the VW test track 243 mph.
Koenisegg 285 mph. I really like the company because it is a small mom and pop shop in suburban Sweden at an old air force base.
243 mph with the 6.0 litre normally aspirated BMW V-12. with Andy Wallace at the Volkswagen's test track in Ehra-Lessien. Sorry but the McLaren F1 is still the ultimate.
jonsnow399
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yeh, Christian von Koenigsegg is a real innovator
Colo MMJ
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He is a really cool guy who is very humble and essentially built the fastest or one of the fastest road cars ever in a smaller garage, His wife is like the bookkeeper.
They had their car ready to take on the lap record at Nurburgring not long ago but the German state clamped down with noise restrictions on the track.
BTW - Christian says he drives a Tesla S and is a Tesla fan.,
jonsnow399
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I always get a kick out of the piston cars making all that racket, then getting smoked on the quarter mile really bad! lol
Colo MMJ
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I wonder what it does in the 1/4 mile.
The last one was the only one even close FBO E85 GTR? Nissan GTR? I always think Bluebird or whatever they call it in Japan.
Twin Turbo Mustang early one. What were the others?
ttystikk
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How long did it take for Amazon to turn a profit, again? But Jeff Bezos is one of America's 3 richest men.
Building a better electric car costs money but it has one thing nothing in the GM lineup has; a future.
ttystikk
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If you're worried about juice for your electric car, put solar panels on your roof.