And this is why I have an accute fondness of cheap and shitty cars. I don't feel bad beating the snot out of a Mitsubishi Mirage, but I feel really bad about hitting a pot hole in, say, my car.
Saw a What Car? issue in a store today, they had Model 3 pitted against 3-series in a test. The former turned out to have higher cabin noise levels on highways. One of the EV snobs' key arguments just went down the drain, as I have always expected. Some people are too inexperienced in cars to know that the main noise source in a modern road car are tires, not the engine - especially if they're studded.
It's deadass just a depreciation joke friend. 10 years from showroom to slum is Nissan Altima or Chevy Malibu rates of depreciation. I'd hope a vehicle with a $100k msrp would take longer than a decade to get into the hands of those living in impoverished areas. --- Post updated --- Do you know what rental outfit they came from? For the most part, rental service is harder on the interior/exterior than anything else. They're repeatedly eaten in, smoked in, piled full of luggage/farm animals, puked in, fucked in. The average renter is much less concerned about hot rodding the car than they are turning it into a pigsty. Then the mess from all of that has to be cleaned before it's rented again. Being vacuumed that frequently takes a very visible toll on automotive carpet after a while. The exterior will be cleaned between each rental, either via an automatic wash or a brush that is also used to clean the mud and brake dust off of wheels and tires. They also spend a lot of time packed into parking lots full of other rental cars, moved around by rental employees who don't in the least bit care about dents and dings. Also, on any ex-rental car ever, note how the paint on the top edge of the bumper, at the bottom of the trunk/hatch opening, will be trashed from having a plastic vacuum hose dragged over it thousands of times.
See, I'm exactly the opposite of the typical renter. When I had a rental car back in April, I obsessively drove it everywhere in Sport mode (even just across parking lots, even though I didn't really beat on it beyond that) but was very careful to remove food crumbs from the seats (to the floor, but still), take my garbage with me, even took it to a touchless wash on my own dime at the end.
Whoever cleaned it would much rather you race it than trash it. When I'm working I drive the hell out of pretty much every car. I really enjoy taking new cars to their absolute operational limits.
In the near future, as an option along side more traditional drivetrains, maybe? I think a performance hybrid would make more sense for that particular vehicle today. V8 + hybrid tech could be something super interesting performance wise. Could also allow for bigger turbo's on the engine for properly big power numbers if that is a route that they wish to go down, since the electric motor could fill in the turbo lag. Then if they wish to continue the Camaro into the future, they could eventually move it to electric, assuming electric is still the best option for transport in however many years time that is. But honestly, if they are planning on making a fully electric sports car, I think they should make a new model for it rather than putting the Camaro badge onto it.
I feel like Mansory is the rich person equivalent of covering your car with "Go faster aesthetic" bits from Ebay.
...Because you can't hear the road noise over the archaic straight-six/s In all seriousness though, as an electric snob myself, I wouldn't consider that my main argument but it's still rather interesting to hear that though.
Hot take: Bugatti can't fucking style a car that looks better than a wheelie bin with angles cut out of it. How did they make such a fast car so overbearingly boring and ugly?
Yeah, it seems more suiting (surprising that Mansory actually pulled off a better design than it's original vehicle) to the type of car the Chiron is. Although we would've got the ugly 5mph bumpers here anyways...
Dude, are you actually serious? Electric has never been the best option for personal transport and it never will be. It's almost as horrible as bicycling, just less annoying to other road users (until it lights up and start spewing hydrogen fluoride).
