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SFBadger96

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Re: Electric Vehicle News Items
« Reply #2380 on: January 07, 2025, 01:52:00 PM »
I know a few people who own them. All of them really like them. FWIW.

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Re: Electric Vehicle News Items
« Reply #2381 on: January 07, 2025, 01:58:20 PM »
Folks who are early to buying a thing nearly always really like them, whether they really do or not.  Humans don't like admitting mistakes.  Early adopters in particular I think are prone to misoverexaggerating the benefits of their thing (and dismissing the disadvantages as being trivial).

I remember when I was the first person in our town to own a gasoline powered vehicle, I was very proud of it, and spoke to any who had the old fashioned steam, or heaven forbit, electric vehicles of its superiority to their claptrap.


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« Reply #2382 on: January 07, 2025, 06:14:40 PM »
I know a few people who own them. All of them really like them. FWIW.
well, they weren't cool enuff to own a real Mustang with a V8 so,...........
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« Reply #2383 on: January 07, 2025, 07:10:03 PM »
well, they weren't cool enuff to own a real Mustang with a V8 so,...........
The Mach-E might be faster off the line than a Mustang with a V8, so...........

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« Reply #2384 on: January 07, 2025, 07:42:51 PM »
So what?
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« Reply #2385 on: January 07, 2025, 07:44:42 PM »
The 2024 Ford Mustang Mach-E can go from 0 to 60 miles per hour in 3.3
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« Reply #2386 on: January 08, 2025, 01:12:26 AM »
I would like to own an EV. I think we could handle it in rural Iowa if either my wife or I had an ICE and the other an EV. I have to travel longer distances than her. I would like an EV, but I would be better off going from here to Des Moine and back in an ICE. 
While I'd like us to have an EV, I am not so sure she would trust having one on her side of the garage. She is due for a new car. We will find out.

That said, I think EVs are better suited for urban commutes. That said, the F-150 Lightening would go great for short rural commutes in Iowa.

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« Reply #2387 on: January 08, 2025, 01:15:18 AM »
The 2024 Ford Mustang Mach-E can go from 0 to 60 miles per hour in 3.3
My brother-in-law has the 2023 version. He reminds me each time he throws me from the front to the back seat simply by depressing a foot pedal.

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« Reply #2388 on: January 08, 2025, 08:43:39 AM »
my Chevy V-8 is 2.9

I love that foot pedal
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« Reply #2389 on: January 08, 2025, 08:55:39 AM »
The Mach-E might be faster off the line than a Mustang with a V8, so...........
I was at a party a few years back and there was a lady there that was some bigshot at Ford. She drove to the party in a Mach-E and was talking about what a great car it was. This was before it hit the market so this was a prototype that she was driving. 

We all went out to check it out and it had some pretty cool features, but it was NOT a Mustang and I told her that. It looked more like a station wagon or small SUV but was NOT a Mustang. You will NEVER convince me to buy one of those insults to the real thing. 

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« Reply #2390 on: January 08, 2025, 08:57:06 AM »
If I were in the market for an EV crossover-mini-SUV thing then I suppose I'd give it a look.  I can't imagine I'll ever be in that market, though.

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« Reply #2391 on: January 08, 2025, 09:11:35 AM »
I mentioned before how a dual car family living in their own home could manage pretty well with one EV.  There are some fairly inexpensive ones out now after the tax credit.  This one looks normal, Hyundai has a similar variant.

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« Reply #2392 on: January 08, 2025, 09:13:48 AM »
One thing to remember is that people just don't want sedans anymore, especially from domestic manufacturers.  I don't think either Chevy or Ford sell any true "cars", it's all SUV's, cross-over SUV's, and trucks.  Chevy has discontinued the Camaro (again), and they're probably never going to bring it back.  I'm not sure about the Mustang's current or future, but rebranding as an EV may be the only way that "Mustangs" survive in the modern age.  That being said, it probably also gave Ford a little bit of extra marketing to a lot younger crowd who is much more willing to accept a xSUV as a Mustang.  We can keep splitting hairs, and come up with that any Mustang not built on a body-on-frame architecture isn't a real mustang either, and I think they've been uni-body since the 90's.  

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Re: Electric Vehicle News Items
« Reply #2393 on: January 08, 2025, 09:18:26 AM »
Camaro's future is as an EV, if there is one.  Hardly anyone is selling a sedan now, the Accord is a very nice one of course.


 

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