You know there have only been like 3-5 actual 2018+ engine failures, right? Engine ticking is not engine failure
And yes, a new Mustang GT is still one of the fastest cars on the road. 0-60 in 3.9 and the 1/4 mile in less than 12 sec bone stock. A Tesla Model 3 isn't touching that lol.
Not sure who your trying to convince to trade an 18 or 19 Mustang GT for a Tesla. From the minute you press the start button you have a completely different driving experience. If the Tesla blows your skirt up that's cool and you can go right on out and buy yourself one. Keeping my Mustang, thank you. I couldn't care less about a few tenths of a second. Give me the roar of a hydrocarbon-burning V8. ;-)
Your entire first paragraph is about spreading false information yet you repeatedly have said that the fox was the cream of the crop of 80s performance cars and how utterly amazing it was. Yet that's just not the case. Good value for the money (you know like most any mustang)? Yes it is. Far from great though like most any other mustang.I’m not trying to convince anyone. I’ll let traditional market forces do that.
But stating false information about the performance of other vehicles won’t change the inevitable. For example the glory days of the IC engine were decades ago. Decades ago when all you had were IC engine cars. Today a new player has arrived and even in its crudest form it has already surpassed IC limits. Traditional car makers are forced to go hybrid just to stay relevant. If that isn’t a raised white flag I don’t know what is...
Cars like the Mustang and Corvette are for 60 year old guys like me. You younger guys are, quite frankly, better off riding the wave of newer, faster and better EV performance cars. Hell, we haven’t even begun to see the styling changes that will happen when people detach themselves from what they think a car should look like. Form follows function and EVs function differently. I see this as an exciting time to be a young gear head. But only if you get with times.
Us older folk will buy up all the IC cars for next to nothing and young people will point and laugh at the old fart drivng a slow old fashioned car belching toxic gas everywhere. Then we will die...
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Your entire first paragraph is about spreading false information yet you repeatedly have said that the fox was the cream of the crop of 80s performance cars and how utterly amazing it was. Yet that's just not the case. Good value for the money (you know like most any mustang)? Yes it is. Far from great though like most any other mustang.
I know tons of people and literally none of them own a Tesla no matter what their age is. And people from all walks of life at that. Noble m600 owners to Ferrari owners, to normal joes with Corvettes and old fbodies. Tesla is a cool car and an interesting presentation of what the future could hold (and I hope it doesn't even just from an environmental standpoint) for cars. Musk is a tax dollar squandering douche that has made his company what it is off the backs of people (like me) who want nothing to do with his vision of electric cars for the future.
The only reason the IC engine is being "phased" (and I use that word as loosely as humanly possible) is because of crippling government regulations adopted by paid off government officials in their respective countries. Much the same, there's been no real advancement in their technology because of those same regulations. Let free market control where things go and you would see a completely different automotive landscape.
Also fwiw, if you are going to compare vehicles, you might want to at least start with the same driveline configurations to compare 0-60.
It wasn't even the point that I thought the engine would break down the road it was the mere fact that my brand new bad a$$ 2017 Mustang sounded like a piece of crap every where I drove...not worth paying for the price of cars these days and not being 100% satisfied...to add an additive or something to the oil to quiet down a noise in my opinion is not normal...to that note if an additive is added who's to say Ford wouldn't blame the ticking on something that was added to the vehicle outside of factory specs...I am now driving my winter beater (96 Olds 88) which makes some noises, but is to be expected with a car that is 22 years old, not one that is 1 year old
You do realize these electric cars are only fast in a straight line due to their weight, and only good for about 20 minutes of WOT fun before they need to charge for hours? Electric is cool, but it has a long way to go.Cars like the Mustang and Corvette are for 60 year old guys like me. You younger guys are, quite frankly, better off riding the wave of newer, faster and better EV performance cars.
You do realize these electric cars are only fast in a straight line due to their weight, and only good for about 20 minutes of WOT fun before they need to charge for hours? Electric is cool, but it has a long way to go.
It will be a long time before an electric car beats an ICE engine around a track, for an entire race.
No fully electric car is going its full range at full throttle. The Model S P100D will throttle itself after periods of hard driving to cool the batteries off. A properly built ICE won't have issues with this unless there is a strong focus on forced induction and the temps are insane outside. A hybrid does solve some of the EV issues but there still remains a massive issue to me and that is battery life. We can't get a cell phone battery to last longer than 2 years without severe performance degradation both in terms of capacity as well as output. We simply do not have the battery technology to make these cars as feasible as ICE powered cars.Up to 600 miles before recharge. So if the car can travel 600 miles in 20 minutes - I’m more than cool with that!
But reality is that hybrids rule the track. That electricity, it’s everywhere!!!!!
Also they corner absolutely flat because of the batteries. The only body roll is the actual bodies in the car. You can have a more forgiving ride as a result.
We can't get a cell phone battery to last longer than 2 years without severe performance degradation both in terms of capacity as well as output.