Originally Posted by
Maxt
Its a hideous car and that does take away from total driving experience, it can take the place of the moped in the old what do fat girls and mopeds have in common jokes, but better packaging will be coming at some point.
I understand the advantages of the Ev when it comes to power application, and response. It can be done much better with an EV than it can be done with an ICE for sure. Way back when, my wifes parents neighbor in Japan, who worked in engineering and design for Toyota, took me a for a ride around in a hopped up minivan with that was a developmental hybrid with the PRIUS platform. Yes it had strong linear acceleration and excellent control of power application, but even back then, it was boring as F after a few pulls, and in EV mode, felt dead generally. The ICE gives a vehicle more of a soul because its always running, and always giving some sensation to the driver.
But from driving experience perspective, there is that divergent point that the tech is making apparent, you can be a driver, or, its difficult to describe, a passenger with some input over the general direction of travel. From a lap time perspective., the tech will win out every time, but its diminishing the skill and the experience and I don't really see a lot of value in that. Its like the difference between a radio control car in the backyard to a afx electric slot car track. All this artificial intelligence and augmented reality does shave the numbers and make for impressive stats for the headlines, but for doing HPDE and track days, its that analog-digital choice. The EV will always be on one side of that equation, and having the car do most of the work for me is not really that interesting. Probably still the reason I have a manual milling machine in my shop instead of a CNC as well. Its definetly a new time for cars, but the increasing tech is really drawing the lines between types of enthusiasts now. I use to chuckle at those old guys that would gather around steam engines, but as I get older I understand their position a lot more.
Brillant post! . Pure enthusiast insight
A Ferrari is a high maintenance chick, you spend money regardless of what you do with her. You can baby the C63, or slap on all seasons, and you won't be spending anything but yearly maintenance. Of course that's like dating a stripper and refusing to fuck her, which would make you gay.
Originally posted by Rage2