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I'm personally not a fan of electric cars,. The Tesla is cool, but I'm not overly impressed with it. They seem to be popular by me, but I'd never own one.
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I just recently bought a 2019 Audi RS3. Incredible car. Put a set of HRE’s on it wrapped in some Michelin pilot 4S tires,
Lowered and bigger sway bars, tint, ceramic, PPF on the front half.
Next summer Stage 2 on E85. 200 horsepower gain on stock turbo is legit. It will be an animal for the street.
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I have 2 - 2016 Focus RS’s I love them so much! Absolute blast to drive. The car totally punches above it’s weight. In the wet it’s a FORD GT! Wanted one since I was a kid.
 

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RS3 is nice. I was thinking of picking up a used one if I move North.
 

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I just recently bought a 2019 Audi RS3. Incredible car. Put a set of HRE’s on it wrapped in some Michelin pilot 4S tires,
Lowered and bigger sway bars, tint, ceramic, PPF on the front half.
Next summer Stage 2 on E85. 200 horsepower gain on stock turbo is legit. It will be an animal for the street.
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Beautiful car , i would get one in a hearbeat.
 

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I just recently bought a 2019 Audi RS3. Incredible car. Put a set of HRE’s on it wrapped in some Michelin pilot 4S tires,
Lowered and bigger sway bars, tint, ceramic, PPF on the front half.
Next summer Stage 2 on E85. 200 horsepower gain on stock turbo is legit. It will be an animal for the street.
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Yes, Audi's are nice... Owned 3 of them, trying to forget.... If you lower them, put software tuning, change wheels, air intakes... they might become pretty good cars.
If you buy a BMW Mx series, you just drive it.
 

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I just recently bought a 2019 Audi RS3. Incredible car. Put a set of HRE’s on it wrapped in some Michelin pilot 4S tires,
Lowered and bigger sway bars, tint, ceramic, PPF on the front half.
Next summer Stage 2 on E85. 200 horsepower gain on stock turbo is legit. It will be an animal for the street.
4338E7B8-3D27-42D0-AE6A-0A5082D7C95F.jpeg
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Nice family car!!
 

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Big Bonnie is my daily :)

F150 5.0 Lariat: Pro comp 6' lift, Outlaw dual exhaust, pro comp HD runner shocks, plus some other goodies you see in the pics. Love it.

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Those of you who dislike Tesla's need to drive one. They are incredible. Now that being said, I wouldn't want it as my only vehicle as I think it lacks emotion. For a daily I think it's the perfect car. Plus it's made in america.
 

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would you sell your GT350R and live with an electric car only?
Not a chance in hell. If I want a "socially responsible" or "greenie" car to DD then there are half a dozen very good electric or hybrids that more than suffice at a fraction of the price of even a Tesla 3. I personally refuse to support that charlatan and his variously incompetent engineering team. $300/mo in coal/natgas-fired electricity seems a lot more than I spend to put gasoline in my cars in a month for equivalent miles driven. But maybe that guy lives in People's Republik of Kalifornia with it's insane energy prices.

The huge, dirty secret about full-time electrics is the incredible battery replacement cost and the frightful ecological impact of manufacturing them.
 

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Not a chance in hell. If I want a "socially responsible" or "greenie" car to DD then there are half a dozen very good electric or hybrids that more than suffice at a fraction of the price of even a Tesla 3. I personally refuse to support that charlatan and his variously incompetent engineering team. $300/mo in coal/natgas-fired electricity seems a lot more than I spend to put gasoline in my cars in a month for equivalent miles driven. But maybe that guy lives in People's Republik of Kalifornia with it's insane energy prices.

The huge, dirty secret about full-time electrics is the incredible battery replacement cost and the frightful ecological impact of manufacturing them.
Actually, in your part of the country (MD/VA), generation sources for electricity are:
Nuclear (44% of total in MD; 34% in VA)
Coal (25% in MD, 12% in VA)
Natural gas (20% in MD, 50% in VA)
All others (11% in MD, of which half is hydroelectric; 5% in VA)

Data from the US Energy Information Administration, as of 2017 so likely shifted further from coal since. Blended average is even better - because VA generates a lot more than MD, coal is only 15% of the total electricity generated across both states.

All of the other sources are far cleaner than tailpipe emissions, so the coal argument fails for you. In Indiana, which is 95% coal-powered still, your argument would hold true. The environmental value of a BEV varies based on your electricity generation source.

Now, as for battery pollution, that has been pretty well debunked. It's a nasty business, but it is no more harmful than drilling for, transporting, and refining oil. Also, unlike oil which is consumed by combustion, battery metals can be recovered and recycled, and there will be an entire industry around that as batteries become more commonplace.

I take no issue with your complaints about Elon Musk. Talk about a megalomaniac who was in the right place at the right time.
 

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Not a chance in hell. If I want a "socially responsible" or "greenie" car to DD then there are half a dozen very good electric or hybrids that more than suffice at a fraction of the price of even a Tesla 3. I personally refuse to support that charlatan and his variously incompetent engineering team. $300/mo in coal/natgas-fired electricity seems a lot more than I spend to put gasoline in my cars in a month for equivalent miles driven. But maybe that guy lives in People's Republik of Kalifornia with it's insane energy prices.

The huge, dirty secret about full-time electrics is the incredible battery replacement cost and the frightful ecological impact of manufacturing them.
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My point of saying coal/natgas-fired was not to play regional discrepancies or comparisons between power generation and tailpipe (though your stats lookup is appreciated) but rather to highlight that all this magically "clean" energy is largely sourced from those "dirty" generation facilities. And so skewering the "my farts don't stink" mentality of the obnoxious electric-car buyer.
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