msudawgfan
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Ahhh, that southern charm. I'm sure your thought to this fine, classy specimen was "Thank you, darlin'!"
The appropriate term is "Bless your heart".
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Ahhh, that southern charm. I'm sure your thought to this fine, classy specimen was "Thank you, darlin'!"
I was coal rolled the same day. I doubt the truck knew he was doing it to an EV or he probably would have done it more than once while I was behind him.I was 'coal rolled' today … again. It's just the price you must pay living in oil & gas country. I may or may not have seen "Oil Field Honey Spending Oil Field Money" bumper sticker through the black smoke and soot. Luckily, I was prepared in biohazard defense mode.
There's the south, and then there's Michigan trying to join the south. I regularly see trucks undoubtedly capable of rolling coal (any other reason to install 6"+ wide pipes?) and occasionally see them do it. Even the weather's becoming southern-like, with a high of 92F today, and it's still only May. I used to live in Alabama and I don't remember as many coal rollers or reaching the 90's this early, but then again, I was pre-teen most of my time there and didn't keep track nearly as much as I do now.Ahhh, that southern charm.
I was coal rolled the same day. I doubt the truck knew he was doing it to an EV or he probably would have done it more than once while I was behind him.
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There's the south, and then there's Michigan trying to join the south. I regularly see trucks undoubtedly capable of rolling coal (any other reason to install 6"+ wide pipes?) and occasionally see them do it. Even the weather's becoming southern-like, with a high of 92F today, and it's still only May. I used to live in Alabama and I don't remember as many coal rollers or reaching the 90's this early, but then again, I was pre-teen most of my time there and didn't keep track nearly as much as I do now.
@David29, depending on the cost of gasoline and the cost of electricity, when I run the numbers I'm paying about ⅓-½ for electricity compared to gas, even including the premium I pay for "fully renewable" electricity. I assume that I'm comparing against a premium ICE sedan at 25 mpg (IMHO, a generous estimate) using premium gas at typical local rates or just assuming say $3.50 or $4.00 per gallon.
Not to mention no oil, no oil change cost (I believe most drivers of premium automobiles do not change their own oil), no transmission fluid to check, no "warm up" time before driving, no waste, no vibration and no fumes when idling/stopped in traffic.
You can also run the numbers for your own car to see what it's costing you.
Alan
You were a god in the 60's if you could produce a sub 6 second street car.It was fast off the line by 1960s standards, but I looked it up, only 5.5s 0-60.
We were also both marveling at the massive size of older cars. I remember my grandfather's Chevy II was small at the time, but it seemed large by modern standards and most of the other 60s cars seemed even bigger. I did some size comparison when I got home and sure enough, my Model S is the smallest car I've ever driven on a regular basis (my first couple of cars were "mine" but technically owned by my parents). My first car was a 1967 Caprice which was not a little shy of 2 feet longer than my Model S, is was wider! How did we ever get those cars in our garages?
You were a god in the 60's if you could produce a sub 6 second street car.
Wow. To me the Model S is giant. (Bigger car than I would want to own.)
Model 3 seems just about right to me.
It is interesting to me to hear from someone used to "giant old boat" cars who thinks the Model S is small.
Wow. To me the Model S is giant. (Bigger car than I would want to own.)
Model 3 seems just about right to me.
It is interesting to me to hear from someone used to "giant old boat" cars who thinks the Model S is small.
I am also someone who remembers those giant old boat cars. We had a 1970s Thunderbird and later a Lincoln Continental that was like a land yacht. However… It's got to be said, they were no less egregious than the gigantic, hulking pickup trucks I see everywhere today.
Is she considering getting the upcoming VW ID Buzz?And now it's not that unusual. It is one area where times have changed, even for ICE. Fuel injection and the control computers help a lot.
I wouldn't call the Model S "small", but I am used to the size. My last two cars were a 1981 Impala and a 1992 Buick Roadmaster which were built on the same underlying platform. They both had the same wheelbase and about the same width as the Model S, but they were overall longer because there was more overhang between the wheels and bumpers. When I'm maneuvering in a parking lot and concerned I'm going to hit something, I have to remind myself the nose of my car is shorter in front of the wheels than what I'm used to.
Before the 81 Impala I had a couple of family hand-me-downs. The first was a 1967 Caprice that was a nice car to drive, but it was getting elderly by the time I got it. It had almost 200K miles on it by then. The next was a 1974 Caprice that was a horribly overloaded car. The wheelbase was 121 inches with an overall length 223 inches and the thing weighed over 4400 pounds empty. I didn't like that car, though I did get it up to 120 mph once.
My SO is thinking about a Model Y because she does think the Model S/X is way too big for her (and another car that expensive is out of our budget). Even though she had more cars than I did back in the day, she drove a lot of European imports. Her father owned a couple of dealerships in Portland that imported cars from Europe. As a teen she had a series of dealer cars like Fiats, MGs, and Saabs which were all tiny by American standards of the time. When she went out and bought a car for herself she bought a VW Bug and later a VW camper van she lived in for 6 months touring North America after college.
She said the camper van needed repairs on the trip and she did them herself. The most dramatic was needing to adjust the valves in a parking lot in North Carolina. She had to drop the engine for that one. Her college boyfriend who was also on the trip had some identity problems that his girlfriend could basically do any kind of car maintenance and he didn't know where the oil cap was.
She even thinks the Model 3 is a bit big for her tastes, but she could manage a car that size. She just doesn't like the sedan layout, she prefers either coupes or wagons/hatchbacks. She'd probably love a 2020 Roadster, though that's kind of out of the budget. At one point in her childhood she wanted to be a race car driver, but this was before there were any women race car drivers and her father talked her into pursuing something more intellectual. She is an excellent driver but she would probably get a lot of speeding tickets driving a Roadster.