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Tesla Roadster owner wins vanity plate war with LOL OIL {Autoblog Green}
Jul 21st 2010 6:41AM Mike!ekim: No, it isn't, but it's never going to replace cars that are sold by the millions, either. How many Teslas have been sold now? Less than 1100. While I like what they are doing, this tendency of people to act like the Tesla is anything other than a low-volume toy is a distraction.
Paul: nope. While I would love to own one, I live in Baltimore with no garage, so I'm fine with my 10-year-old car, thanks. By "vanity" I meant that it's not an engineering achievement so much as it is a toy that Elon Musk got built largely through force of will, out of a Lotus Elise and a bunch of laptop batteries. If it were a "real" car, then they probably wouldn't've had to replace all the transmissions of the first batch.
Chris M: yes, but still used, and regardless, irrelevant either way. Ford has soy foam seats; if they put those in all their cars and trucks, they're making a much bigger difference than Tesla ever will, even if they stop slipping deadlines and blowing vapor.
I guess the overall problem here is that I made a valid and straightforward comment, and then a bunch of people jumped all over me screaming "A WITCH!!! BURN HIM!!!"
And that, too, is why the Tesla will not save the world. But those of you who think it can, have a great time. Me, I'm going to go read about more useful things.
Tesla Roadster owner wins vanity plate war with LOL OIL {Autoblog Green}
Jul 20th 2010 6:38PM Mike!!ekiM: well, that sort of "defiance" is only available to people that can afford a $100K+ vanity car. And how is buying the Leaf, a Japanese car, reducing our dependence on foreign powers? How much of the Tesla is manufactured outside California?
Those 1-2-year old cars had nothing wrong with them, and probably only pushed out other, less fashionable 3-4-year old cars. You'll be shocked to learn that affluent people selling their used cars get as close as possible to Blue Book, which does not fit the budget of the kind of people that can afford "clunkers".
Rob: precisely, thank you.
GoodCheer: Not at all. I am saying that I would buy an electric car if I had the money, and a garage to charge it in, and traveled less than 40 miles a day. I actually walk to work, so it doesn't much matter what I drive, but there's no way (under current infrastructure) that I could remotely consider a pure electric car that all but requires reliable owned parking, ie: the suburbs.
I fully support the Volt, a practical solution to everyone's problems, from a car company with a 100-year track record of selling in volume, that does not bill itself as being powered by unicorn farts.
Tesla Roadster owner wins vanity plate war with LOL OIL {Autoblog Green}
Jul 20th 2010 3:44PM Can be, just like electricity can be made from something other than coal. But the smugness is out of proportion to reality, and that turns off people like me, who would love to see us out of the oil business as soon as possible.
All the people in the neighborhood next to mine rushed out to buy Priuses as soon as they could, but what of their discarded 1- or 2-year old cars? And what of the fact that they let a decent neighborhood supermarket die because they would rather drive to the Whole Foods than, gasp, WALK to a SuperFresh?
Tesla Roadster owner wins vanity plate war with LOL OIL {Autoblog Green}
Jul 20th 2010 3:26PM Good thing he doesn't use grease to lubricate any moving parts, or any kind of plastic, or...
Jay Leno to cram SLS AMG's V8 into 1969 Mercedes 6.3 {Autoblog}
Dec 18th 2009 10:00AM To be fair, the only reason the 6.3 exists is that Rudolf Uhlenhaut decided to see how big an engine he could cram into the 300SEL engine bay, so this is really just Jay doing the same thing with a modern engine.
I have one, with a lot of issues, that I bought for $5K. It really pushes the limits of what can fit in there, to the point that the power steering lines have a special connector to the steering box because the standard connector wouldn't fit under the engine.
And yeah, it's awesome. Back when Mercedes understood that style was about understatement; wrap a body around the best engineering, not try to mask your cost-cuts with flashing shaved fenders...
It's worse than we thought: GM commissions Chevy Volt dance to go with song {Autoblog Green}
Dec 15th 2009 9:49AM So, y'all are OK with all the Apple and smart phone ads featuring songs by people like Ingrid Michaelson, right? And y'all have been to trade shows and are aware that they are all about cheesy spectacle, right, like Jeeps crashing through glass windows and so on?
What's the problem, exactly? Yes, this is cheesy. So?
Does not change what the Volt is, which is GM trying to make an EREV that might actually not have the recalls or issues that companies running on smugness like Tesla have had; GM wants to sell several million of these, not, what is it now, 700?
I have been very impressed by GM's efforts thus far, even though I am not particularly excited by the looks of the Volt, it's a damn sight better than the doorstop look favored by Toyota and Honda.
Mansory Bentley Vitesse Rose isn't really all that rosy {Autoblog}
Sep 14th 2009 9:30AM Soooo... they made it from Carbon Fiber and Bondo?
Libyan Rocket: Colonel Muammar Gaddafi designs a "safe" car {Autoblog}
Sep 2nd 2009 3:24PM a "spokeshole"?
VIDEO: Limited slip differential Lego style {Autoblog}
Aug 12th 2009 9:39AM Having trouble finding your mute button?
Where the fiasco is at today, a Cash for Clunkers update {Autoblog Green}
Jul 30th 2009 11:08AM "it has at same time gone from a great way to get old gas guzzlers off the road to something resembling a fiasco"
I'd say it failed at getting old gas guzzlers off the road to begin with; in Baltimore City, the problem is not 10-year-old Jeeps, it's late-70's, early 80's rustbuckets held together with duct tape and baling wire. Some of them don't even have catalytic converters! All ineligible for CARS.
Also there's the part where you have to be buying a new car to get the cash; most of the seriously egregious polluters drive these cars because they can't afford to buy a newer heap of junk for $1500, much less take on a car payment for $15,000.
