balthazar

The autcross & dirt bike racing is supposed to stay (for now). But the whole 'I bought a house near a NHRA Tier 1 drag strip and didn't think it would be noisy/didn't bother to investigate' is a special kind of stupid that shouldn't be catered to. ykX- I'm about 25 mins from E-town, have been going there for years for the swap meet (also in a long tailspin towards death IMO, but still running for now). I never raced there myself, tho I've watched racing there a bunch of times. I did hope to run when(ever) my car gets done. There's still Atco in south Jersey, but that's a bit over an hour from me. A cat-back exhaust & a cold air box are not my idea of 'building a fast car'. Taking a stock ride from -say- 13.5 secs to 13.2 secs is kinda anticlimactic. Now, going from -say- 18 sec to 10.5 sec... now you can open some eyes. To each his own, of course.

Well, that is some excellent info there, my friend. Consider me now informed. Yes, perhaps I was confused. 6.5' is acceptable (even tho it's only a half foot longer than a traditional short bed). But the 5.5' bed still angers me. So does the fact that perhaps I am NOT shopping in 2019, but must put it off until '20. I can still look tho. Here's hoping that the sales downtick in Q1 and the possible 'embarrassment' of the Ram slipping past the SIlvie in volume makes Chevy start throwing all possible combos on the lot, including a RC/6.5' version.

Tesla's March U.S. sales numbers were as follows: Model S : 2,275 Model 3 : 10,175 Model X : 2175 The Q1 U.S. total was 30,600 vehicles. This compares to Q4 2018's U.S. total of 77,525 units for a decline of 61%. Musk had warned of both declining volume and an operating loss for Q1, but not to such an extreme extent. Model 3 U.S. volume over the last 6 months ~ Oct '18 : 17,750 Nov '18 : 18,650 Dec '18 : 22,250 Jan '19 : 6,500 Feb '19 : 5,750 Mar '19 : 10,175 The pertinent question stands- what is the true mean monthly demand for the Model 3, and was the volume uptick in Q4 2018 solely due to the upcoming (Jan 1, '19) halving of the tax credit? [Source : insideEVs.com]

Meh : 5.5 > 6.5 = 1 measly foot. Besides- not every car buyer needs a trunk, they should sell trunkless sedans. :P

Nice, but clearly it IS a '392' and not a '6.whatever'! ;) '51-52 Cadillac 4-dr sedan, white over grey, stock/fully restored, parked at business. First interesting vehicle I've seen in months.

Short beds are for posers.

PSA have any plans to at least check the sales charts of fiat & alfa? 'cause Peugeot is in the very same, tiny basket of 'who-asked-you-to?'.

It's not much different than actively buying a 7-pass CUV- how often do people need those? Maybe -like some suggest RE F/S trucks- they can just rent a 7-pass for those infrequent occasions they need one (have a large buying spree at Home Depot). Most people buy in bulk. Costco... homes... It's The Way Of Things.

Thanks blu- I spent an hour the other night watching utube episodes. Funny stuff. - - - - - '41 DeSoto Business Coupe - love the lines ~

Americans are NOT realizing it.

The Colorado is much larger than the old S-10, but everything gets fatter with age. Look at the BMW 2002/3-series. Marketers have convinced consumers that 'NEW' must include 'more'.

^ Yea- but that's you; you wake up in the morning to fixate on something for the day. I personally would not have greenlighted the C-Pillar, but it's pretty minor all in all. - - - - - On the CT5 :from the above single-angle shot, I'm going to give it a 'no'. It's a bit soft IMO as far as carrying the chiseled look of late- and in softening the edges, it recedes toward the generic. Need to see more outdoors, all angle shots.

Perhaps not, but you can have a 6500-7000 lb truck pulling 35,000 lbs. Think also of the weight disparity between a semi tractor and it's loaded trailer.

Safe bet it's more than the 30% drop, tho. 200-350 has a median of 275 miles. Median of 500-885 is 692 miles. I realize these are only estimates, but even the estimates don't look good so far.

Also quizzical that BMW has now slid a 2nd CUV into the "cars" category. More than previously, I'm positive this is to bolster the sales slide of BMW cars. If one categorizes them correctly via body type, BMW sold 32,879 cars and 41,009 'light trucks' in March.

The BMW brand exists on 5 models. So tell me why they have 17 ??

That would be an absolute deal breaker for both trucking companies and independents right there. Half the range at 3 times the price? Yep; gonna revolutionize the industry alright.

If a Tesla semi ever shows up, it'll cost $500,000. And be useless in sub-freezing temps.

I understand basic IC operating principles just fine. When you make an absolute claim ("ZERO effect on fuel economy") and you provide no specific data (IE; air flow of throttle body, air flow of clean filter, air flow of dirty filter, amount the driver increased the throttle plate opening to compensate), you have provided nothing to illustrate your claim, nevermind prove it. Therefore, questions about the claim are natural. - - - - - How much? Is he limited in how much? Must it ONLY be the equivalent of the dirty filter's reduction in airflow? Can you quantify this? Can he suddenly go from a 25% throttle plate opening to 50% throttle plate opening? Why not? I have a feeling you did not mean to state that a filter 'causes the air mass to flow into the engine', seeing as how you were very specific about the gas pedal 'not controlling fuel flow into the engine'. I believe you are trying to say that when the 'gas' pedal is depressed the inverse amount more that the dirty filter reduced air flow, that the net effect is zero on the vehicle's fuel economy. Because the ONLY way that the amount of fuel used is the same is if the dirty filter + 'X' throttle plate opening = the clean filter + 'Y' throttle plate opening. That's quantifying the parallel scenarios to some degree, and such makes fine sense. But you never stated it that way (or at least I never read it that way). And one could never expect a real world scenario like that to play out that exactly by chance alone. Thanks for the back & forth, Dwightlooi.

And, of course; less than some of you others realize. Who knows? knows!

If Tesla's semi can only pull 55K lbs, what would a Tesla 1/2-ton pick-up do- 15K? Ram is currently rated to 35K. Diesel just has too much torque for electric motor to compete with.

Drag racing is the only attainable motor sport for the average enthusiast. Unfortunately, modern vehicles don't allow for much hands-on modification, and really; what's the point/fun in racing a stock vehicle?

Price vs. gas XC40?

EV trucks are not nearly as conducive to regular ownership as EV cars/SUVs would be, for various reasons. - - - - - The theory that a loyal truck buyer would consider another make if his brand raised prices by $10K is logical & believable, but such includes the unspoken mandate that the competition would hold their prices in response. Not going to happen- so this is a nothingburger WRT the Big 3 (plus little 2). On another board one poster was repeatedly whining about the "premium" the Silverado was charging over the Ram, but then preceded to post a graphic showing the top starting MSRPs were $105 apart. Where this spells out a HUGE concern is for EV trucks, which are poised to start at least $25K higher ($40K in some instances) than the Big 3 (+2). If 70% would consider bailing with a $10K increase, what is the percentage with a $25K increase???

I was wondering if/when you would introduce that. I believe now I've been proven correct; we are square dancing with semantic partners. - - - - - By your postings, air flow is the prime event of IC, not fuel flow (despite the fact that aside from a small variable range, they are intrinsically linked). Air flow is measured by CFM (cubic feet per minute). In an internal combustion consumer motor vehicle as introduced in this thread; no, because no; volume is dependent on both throttle plate bore (a constant), throttle plate opening (a variable) and flow RATE (a variable). In this example there is always an element of time involved (CFM). An instantaneous snapshot of air flow (or fuel flow) is only a data point in a chain of data used to compute fuel economy. And that snapshot changes from click to click to click; constantly, even at level, highway speeds using cruise. Every time air flow changes, fuel flow changes pretty much in lockstep. This is why a vehicle's average fuel economy reading sometimes covers a moving window of the last 450 miles. - - - - - I'm going to go back to your original statement : This is ONLY true if the exact same throttle opening map is repeated, EXACTLY, in a controlled environment, between the clean & dirty filter. In the real world, the dirty filter vehicle's driver must never open the throttle plate 1 iota more to compensate for a sensation his vehicle 'feels slower' because 'Geez- when's the last time I changed my air filter??'. AS SOON AS the driver opens the throttle bore a teeny bit more, he'll burn more fuel. That's a variable that is easily eliminated in the laboratory, but impossible to do so in the real world.