Ostrichsak
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..unless you need customer service support."No drama" is a good way to describe the Tesla experience.
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..unless you need customer service support."No drama" is a good way to describe the Tesla experience.
god so much this.Driving experience - The M3 does not have the noise, interaction and thrill of the Challenger. The M3 is fast and handles well but it does not substitute the visceral feeling of driving the Challenger. Having said that, most of the time I drove the Challenger was on a straight line on a highway plus I'm getting old. In other words, although the noise was glorious at times, when it's 7 am and I'm heading off to work, it was a bit annoying.
Sometimes it's just your very existence that triggers them. I've had several "coal rolling" experiences, and I had done absolutely nothing to instigate it.
The most dangerous was a guy on an Interstate freeway that past me quickly, jumped directly in front of my car (missing my front fender by inches), then slammed on his brakes while simultaneously releasing huge clouds of black smoke. He did this several times until I was able to get to an (unplanned) freeway exit to get away from him. He nearly caused several accidents in the process. After the last time he did it, I gunned it to get to that exit... there was no way he would've kept up with me. So he put me in the awkward position of having to drive at excessive speed in order to lessen the danger to other drivers.
Wish I woulda had the presence of mind to hit the camera icon and save the footage of it. The camera had a great view of his license plate during all four events.
I don't know if camera footage is enough to cite a guy for reckless driving (which here in Utah carries a very stiff penalty), but it would've at least been entertaining to show to my cop buddy.
Don't have a spouse, but am raising teenage grandchildren and IF I have to drive them somewhere it's OK with me. Went to Costco yesterday during the Super Bowl as I knew the traffic on the road and the in the store would be low. EVERY TIME I think about having to go somewhere, "OH, GOOD, I get to drive my Tesla!" pops into my head. I have had my M3 for 14 months and tomorrow I will hit 23,000 miles.Come on everyone. Admit that the second your spouse says “we are out of milk”, you are out the door and heading to not necessarily the closest grocery store in the model 3 in a flash. Have had a Jaguar xk8 convertible (fun when it wasn’t in the shop) and wife has a 1998 bmw m3 convertible, but neither had that strong of a hop in and just drive feeling. Maybe it’s just curiosity factor from all the updates. Got my long range sleeper in late December also so hoping the feeling doesn’t wear off
Pseudo high performance cars have contaminated owners into believing that to be fast...you must sound fast.
ICE manufacturers are aware of this and use this to sell more cars. They make the cars sound like they are fast, and the fools believe they are magnificant fast drivers, when in reality they are so much slower than a silent EV it makes them act like idiots.
Some very loud cars, with fart can exhausts will barely break 6 seconds. Running through the gears (slowly) makes their gullible owners believe they are racing car fast, when in reality they are no quicker than a well silenced compariable quiet car.
See this all the time, with loud cars pealing out from local cars and coffee. They never really attain any speed, and often lose control and spin out. Idiots.
They also slam shifts, believing this also makes their cars blindingly fast. Reality is that it mostly just shocks the drive lines and chirps the tires. Not measurably faster. Most modern automatics are much quicker, but without all the macho drama poop.
Car companies know that they can make additional profits by offering louder and more expensive exhausts on their cars. While not making them significantly quicker, and much more irritating to those around them, they continue to do so to glean additional $ from the useful idiots.
I know this first hand. Used to race Corvettes and Vipers with side pipes. Fooled myself into believing they were quick. but Tesla has given me fresh vision. I know now that electric drive responds so much quicker to throttle than any ICE. No longer need to take time to grab a lower gear or wait for the automatic to downshift. No clutch to disengage and slip back out to make the car go quickly forward.
Even race drivers understand the fatigue that loud motors and exhausts do to performance over time. Severly degrades endurance and clouds judgement. Most long stint drivers will wear earplugs underneath their helmets to give them an edge against the deflation over time.
With a quiet car, you can hear the tires on pavement, the sound of other cars around you, etc.
You couldn't have picked a worse example. Mazda's Zoom Zoom campaign was about celebrating the joy of driving. Their brand has never been about positioning themselves as the fastest of anything. As if you couldn't tell, the most celebrated of all their cars, and the embodiment of their company, is a MIATA.I understand how people have been conditioned to believe that a faster sounding car is really going faster. That the joy they get from shifting a car by themselves really makes the car perform better than a modern performance dual clutch transmission.
It has been beaten into our brains that it is better...because we move the levers, or cut baffles out of the muffler, but modern cars do not really gain much with all this stuff. All the fastest racing cars (except maybe dying NASCAR) have switched to faster computerized shifting. Cars don't really need to be noisy to go fast (exceptmay be dragsters)
Not saying that doing so is not fun, but simply that it is mostly wasted effort in being truly faster.
Believe the legacy manufacturers will put phoney "speed" noises into their EV's to continue the brain washing.
Mazda used to claim that their cars were faster because they went "Zoom-Zoom" Childish.
You couldn't have picked a worse example. Mazda's Zoom Zoom campaign was about celebrating the joy of driving. Their brand has never been about positioning themselves as the fastest of anything. As if you couldn't tell, the most celebrated of all their cars, and the embodiment of their company, is a MIATA.
Here it is in their own words: Why Zoom-Zoom? | Mazda New Zealand
For every 1 person who chases after a "loud fart can", another 20 disapproves. But you keep insisting that every single person is foolishly chasing after that 1/10th of a second? Like Ferrari owners installing Tubi exhaust because they don't think their cars are fast enough?
Whatever koolaid you drank, don't assume everyone else is sipping on the same juice
so you know the dynamics of how that car drives, based on a blog post whose source is another article, of a car thats not yet in production?Um... this does not sound like Zoom-zoom fun.
Mazda’s MX-30 EV Is Deliberately Slow And Has Low Range On Purpose
so you know the dynamics of how that car drives, based on a blog post whose source is another article, of a car thats not yet in production?
and did it say somewhere that mazda is engineering the fastest CUV?
0 to 60 is a key part of Zoom zoom fun, along with handling. Slow 0 to 60 (on EV standard) = DOA.
Take a look at Car Stickers. You can order clear vinyl, customized with your own graphics and text.Now, as to zoom zoom. Would really be nice to have a zoom zoom sign you can plaster on your side window whenever a car starts gunning their engine next to your Tesla. Been happening a lot lately. Might just be short sellers pissed off at the stock though
Pseudo high performance cars have contaminated owners into believing that to be fast...you must sound fast.