General Car Discussion

They do look rather grandfatherly but with a nice engine they could be fun

 

GM have to recall pick ups for potential fuel leaks.

 

(Since GM Owns GMC, I can make a Chevy Joke)

Constantly
Having
Every
Vehicle
Recalled
Over
Lousy
Engineering
Techiniqes

 

Still better than Bullshit Motor Works with there cars with fire problems

 

"I can't believe it, they've gone Plaid!"

 

The Roadster actually doesn't look horrible. Deffinantly higher on my list than almost all new cars being released nowadays. Not a fan of the truck though, which I can't decide whether it's more of a truck or a lorry.

What is that from? It sounds familiar....

 

Spaceballs!!

 

Just wondering why does the new tesla truck need to be so fast to 60? It isnt even allowed to drive that fast over here also why is it so special that it is able to drive 104kph?

 

In some US states trucks are allowed to go at car speeds.
Also 0-60 times do help them in motorway entrances with merging as well as accelerating onto and off of roundabouts etc. Plus its just plain cool.

One wonder that I do have is whether they are using the same motors in the roadster and truck? (just more of them in the truck)

 

To let you know a Lorry is basically the same as a cabover 18 wheeler but a Lorry is safer, I don't see why a 2 ton wall on wheels need to be safe going 70 mpg in one of these would go thru any car on a highway USA or EU

 

Because cars aren't the only things they crash into?

 

No, but on a highway yeah the only thing that can stop one of these is another truck.

 

That simply means the lorry driver is taking other car drivers with him when he dies in the impact at 70mph...

 

No that's the same with American semis.

 

I dount know much about how electric vehicles work, but wouldn't making the truck less powerful (slower 0-60) increase the range it can do? Because it is cool and all that the truck can do that, but it is still a truck. Doing truck things such as going long distances are alittle more important than a quick 0-60

 

pretty much, but at same time, simply accelerating slower would also increase the range it can do

 

Aren't trucks and lorries the same thing?

 

I guess, but I mean sorta like the overcab style and the... Whatever the other one is called. The ones you see in America more commonly

 

Conventional is what I've always called the regular trucks in the US, there might be other names for it though. And we still have cabovers here in the US, they just aren't as common, but we still call them trucks not lorries.

 

The auto-braking is something that I would really like to see more of on lorries. Since its quite well documented that the drivers are often distracted and not paying much attention (certainly not all drivers, but a concerning amount) so having a lorry that will stop itself rather than ramming through a stack of 8 cars would be pretty nice.