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[jroyk]

While none of us have any interest in owning an EV, myself included, this is pretty interesting. Comments are interesting, too.

 

[BULL]

The Chinese have been sending us complete shit for years, and now they want us to trust them with a car? They've lost their freakin' minds...

And talk about the wrong people to have as Big Brother in your car... It's bad enough we have to deal with the U.S. Government in our cars now, there's zero chance in hell I'll buy a Chinese car.

 

[2ndAmend]

I stopped watching in less than 1min so please excuse my ignorance of the point of the vid.

I was at the dragway last week and a local with a Plaid that does 9.1's in the 1/4 and 203.5 in less than 1mi was trying to convince me to get one. Right now, they are a tremendous performance bargain! You can buy a used Plaid with 30-40kmi for about $55-60k and do low 9's. For a $20k brake job they will raise the speed limiter to 200+.

I have been tempted, but they seem so GD boring to drive! People laugh at the dragway when they watch these silent machines scoot down the track, just like the Japanese entry in Cannonball Rally.

Besides I don't have any available garage space. But they are very fast.

 

[jroyk]

I stopped watching in less than 1min so please excuse my ignorance of the point of the vid.

I was at the dragway last week and a local with a Plaid that does 9.1's in the 1/4 and 203.5 in less than 1mi was trying to convince me to get one. Right now, they are a tremendous performance bargain! You can buy a used Plaid with 30-40kmi for about $55-60k and do low 9's. For a $20k brake job they will raise the speed limiter to 200+.

I have been tempted, but they seem so GD boring to drive! People laugh at the dragway when they watch these silent machines scoot down the track, just like the Japanese entry in Cannonball Rally.

Besides I don't have any available garage space. But they are very fast.

The point was just what it’s done to world markets in just a couple years. Hence, my disclaimer about us not wanting one.

 

[1971demon]

The point was just what it’s done to world markets in just a couple years. Hence, my disclaimer about us not wanting one.

Yet in spite of all this....you realize there are those that will buy them....

 

[jroyk]

Yet in spite of all this....you realize there are those that will buy them....

The Europeans are buying them like crazy. They are more protectionist against the U.S. than China.