gee, i sure do hope no one revives a rather successful model made in the 1960-1980's just to turn it into an electric SUV Ford: Ford please if you're gonna revive the Capri as an EV, please at least make it into a fastback coupe like the original ones. or if you really need to make it an SUV, just make it a hybrid please like genuinely EV's only make sense as small hatchbacks intended for city use
Gonna get a bit serious here- Gun access is part of the problem. Yes, the fact that getting a semi-automatic lethal weapon without breaking any laws is insanely easy makes it easy for the wrong people to get guns, but there is a huge piece missing. If a person has decided that they want to go shoot a place up, there has been something seriously, seriously wrong with them since long before they made that decison that should be detected before they even get the idea, so they can be seperated from the rest of the population for saftey.
Unfortunately, some successful models back in 1960-1980’s have been revived as an EV. For example, the Delorean brand came back with announcing a new EV called Delorean Alpha5. It was said that it would be in production in 2024, but it was delayed. However, some other companies that don’t make cars don’t revive a famous car from the 1960-1980’s, they just find a car like for example, a 1960-1970’s Volkswagen Beetle, and then replace it’s gasoline engine and drivetrain with an electric one. But not only other companies, but even Robert Downey Jr. is replacing the 1960-1980’s gasoline cars with basically removing their gasoline engines and their drivetrains with electric ones. Some examples of a vehicle from the 1960-1980’s becoming into a EV is BMW 2002, and the 1970’s Ford Bronco. I’m just disappointed that they ruined it. And I just have to say, EV’s suck
Long post ahead, FYI Spoiler: Bang Bangs Another major factor is the type and capacity of the firearm involved. Nobody is bursting into a movie theater and mowing down 25 people with a 12-gauge. Ordinary shotguns and pistols should be sufficient for the consumer needs of a home/agricultural defense weapon, and probably for most small game hunting. No civilian needs a 25-round magazine, nor the ability to empty it within 7 seconds, not unless they're a doomsday prepper, an action hero made manifest from an 80's power fantasy, or up to something real dark. And let's be real, the former has got a fair likelihood of becoming the latter. Spoiler: Vroom Vrooms TBH, I don't mind terribly if model lines get gradually converted to EVs. IMO, there's nothing principally wrong with an electric powertrain that makes it functionally inferior to their ICE equivalents, especially since charging infrastructure is becoming more common, more accessible, and cheaper (though batteries do still need some work from a safety, efficiency, and environmental/geopolitical sourcing standpoint). To say nothing that, and yes I know how rote this sounds, they are probably the future of personal vehicular travel: can't blame the execs for carving out a slice of tomorrow for their companies. Spoiler: Rant What does grind my gears is the fact that every. Single. INDIVIDUAL. MODEL. is a g*ddamn crossover SUV! I know that EPA mandates have caused some of that, consumer demand other parts, but every model being a car-as-an-appliance with an entropic endpoint of a design, advertised with the jargon intended for an audience that wants to experience the drive as absolutely little as possible, featuring all the bells and whistles that most of us won't care about, and that will all be broken within ~2 years anyway, all lying flat at the altar of the EV revolution while simultaneously trying to make it the beigest experience they can offer... it just doesn't excite me. The new Mustang is an EV? Cool, no biggie. Hell, it might even make waves on the quarter mile with all that torque. The new Mustang is a crossover SUV? The backwards-baseball cap trying-to-stand-out-from-the-crowd-but-ends-up-doing-the-exact-same-thing-as-everybody-else child of the soccer mom minivans? Count me out! As for ICE-to-EV conversions, it depends. Gutting an intact vintage ICE to scrap the mechanicals feels disrespectful to me. All the more so should EV technology either fail or change drastically from the current design, in which case it'd be like a person in the 70's converting an old film archive to BetaMax before burning the reels, or somebody translating the Rosetta Stone to Esperanto before smashing it to pieces. But if a vehicle is already mechanically unfeasible, it could be a valuable way to preserve the bodyshell for practical use, or even to allow parts cars for home projects to become usable cars in their own right. EVs are good for, among other things, the fact that they need very few moving parts, and those parts should theoretically be adaptable to pretty much any chassis. Adaptability means potential. Potential means freedom. Freedom means more cool shit on the road. It's probably optimistic, but that's the Solarpunk future I'm hoping to see.
honestly if the new Capri were a sports coupe i'd actually like it. even though i still think EV's do best as small city cars, i could see them being more popular in a few years. and sports cars could genuinely benefit from the extra torque still, i feel like Ford only revived the name because it was popular in the past, but i really do see it as a missed opportunity to make a true electric Capri, and rename the crossover to something else. --- Post updated --- and since we're on the topic: i feel like it would be best to find a way to limit the co2 emission caused by making BEV batteries, and make a fuel for existing cars and also make FCEV fuelling points more common so the 5 Hyundai Nexo owners can actually use their cars
In our country, too, weapons are common, but we had almost no shootings in schools, it all depends on the people and their mental health
My Eagle is the same way, but my Corolla is the opposite, and if I buy that truck (likely), I'll have an in-between, too.
Jaguar is discontinuing all of its vehicles except the F-Pace. RIP all Jaguar vehicles (except F-Pace) https://www.motor1.com/news/726576/jaguar-discontinues-six-models/
It’s not a dead brand. The reason they discontinued all those Jaguar vehicles (except the F-Pace) is because Jaguar partnered up with Land Rover with a plan of Jaguar to become all electric in 2025. They originally planned the electric I Pace to live on in 2025 with other new EV’s planned. But they decided to kill the I Pace as well. The only reason why the F Pace lives is because they still need money to keep their brand going. However, the F Pace will be discontinued most likely next year following some new EV’s Jaguar plans to put in production in 2025-2026
You could have the corollas reliability if you buy a Toyota truck. Find and old hilux or something, top gear had 2 (if not 3) whole episodes of them trying, and failing, to destroy an old hilux.
