how do you feel about electric performance cars?

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but I want a V8 and rwd...
yes, and you said affordable. I said a hemi challenger R/T is about the same price as a well equipped Camry or Accord. The Hemi Challenger IS a V8, RWD, 2dr, affordable car. :)
** here is one brand new for the same price as a V6 Camry or V6 Accord..
2019 Dodge Challenger R/T | eBay
 
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When I hear/read about electric cars, it reminds me of the time the wife and I was waiting to be boarded on a flight. The women in front of us were asking each other if they packed their “B.O.B.’s. lol

They don't serve alcohol on flights anymore? What the HELL is wrong with the airlines?
 
Whats a V6 Honda Accord or V6 Toyota Camry cost, 30K ??? 3 more will get ya in a R/T hemi.

Agreed. Why get a Honda,

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when you can get this instead?

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P.S.
@MrJLR , thanks for the kick in the pants!
Might go buy a new Challenger tomorrow

 
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When I hear/read about electric cars, it reminds me of the time the wife and I was waiting to be boarded on a flight. The women in front of us were asking each other if they packed their “B.O.B.’s. lol
They don't serve alcohol on flights anymore? What the HELL is wrong with the airlines?
When the girls talked about packing their B.O.B.'s they meant their "Boyfriends On Batteries"....me meaning why electric when you can have the real thing......
 
Then knock a hole in your muffler. To me the best part is the feel of acceleration, could care less what it sounds like
Some Harley riders did that , sounded like crap, and offered no benefits in performance ie acceleration. After 50 years of owning them and a few "muscle cars" I've seen short cuts that just don't work.
 
and now an electric crate engine? with different sounds?I haven't figured out carb settings and timing curves yet!

GM Performance unveils new electric crate motor concept

One of our cars is an electric and it is great for running errands around town. Quiet, quick, almost zero maintenance, easy to charge over night, inexpensive, etc.

I'd convert my '65 Coronet over to electric if there was an easy path. At the moment it would cost a ton of money and I probably don't have the skill, time or resources to make it happen myself. But I'd love to have an old muscle car with a Tesla power train swapped under it. I think there is a market for those cars but I don't think anyone is making them yet. Shouldn't be too long though before you can buy a 1969 Camaro with a Tesla drive train. I'm sure someone will start making them within the next few years.
 
Evs are pretty cool from a performance standpoint.While our electrical grid cant support it yet there are some niche applications where an all electric powertrain flat out destroys a gas or diesel engine.Drag racing,trails dirt biking,even offroading.anything where "range" isnt a big deal.The nice thing about an electric motor is its torque curve, 100% of your power is available from the word "go".Even a stout v8 engine doesnt make any meaningful power below 1500 rpm,diesels make max torque at about 1500 rpm, an electric motor makes max torque at "zero" rpm.Granted my only experience with EV's is my 56v lawnmower.Its impossible to stall it with a full battery.I use it cut my lawn as well as mow a lot with tall weeds.If you take too big of a bit with a gas lawnmower it will bog down and then eventually stall, with the electric it will bog down for a millisecond until the controller supplies more juice to motor then its back up and cutting like nothing happened.Its awesome that the only thing I have to do maintenance wise is wash out the deck and sharpen the blade, just charge the battery and its good to go.Its a hell of a lot simpler than the yearly tune up required with a gas engine.As an added bonus, it is quiet enough that I can mow in the dark without pissing off my neighbors which is handy when I spend all day doing 9-5 type stuff and get home after its dark..

As far as the "range" issue with EV's, my 93 dakota 5.2/automatic/4wd on 32" tires has a "range" of 185 miles before the low fuel light comes on with a 22 gallon tank.I can't go anywhere offroad unless I carry a couple extra gallons of gas.Alot of EV's have a range at least that if not more, unlike my truck the ev could refill at my house so its day to day range could be unlimited.most cars that get great mpg are also tiny so they have tiny fuel tanks as well so their range isnt much better.a geo metro gets 35 mpg but it only has a 10 gallon tank.But the range issue is stupid, how many of you do enough driving that you have to fill up your tank every day?my dakota is the only thing I have owned where I worry about "range" with it simply because it gets crap mpg and the fuel gauge doesnt work, other than the odometer and the low fuel light I have no way of knowing how much fuel it actually has.
 
I LOVE gasoline powered muscle, but I have to admit I really like the electric movement too. It just shows hot rodding is gonna LIVE no matter what. Google Tesla powered Mercury. If you don't like that car, you got some problems. lol

And how much fun will it be when every car runs and sounds effectively the same?

This'll be way cooler than stuffing a 350 Chevy into everything! It'll be different this time. Sure it will.
 
And how much fun will it be when every car runs and sounds effectively the same?

This'll be way cooler than stuffing a 350 Chevy into everything! It'll be different this time. Sure it will.

Never happen in our lifetime. So I'm not worried about it.

Besides, every new car now sounds the same. No sound AT ALL.
 
Then knock a hole in your muffler. To me the best part is the feel of acceleration, could care less what it sounds like

Then go jump off your house. Free acceleration! In two directions, even!

Have you heard the sound of modern muscle cars ? No holes in those mufflers..:)

Don't pull the radio fuse, or you might be disappointed.
 
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