Ford and VW Agree to Share Costs of Self-Driving and Electric Cars
Great and all, but I&#x27;ll never purchase an EV if I can help it. They are garbage, in my opinion. They feel like cheap toys, like go karts. I&#x27;ve driven and ridden in Teslas and, aside from the acceleration, there&#x27;s nothing special about it. Besides, as a motorcycle rider, even the Tesla Model 3 0-60 isn&#x27;t anything magical. It&#x27;s...mundane to riders (who aren&#x27;t on Harleys). The P100D ludicrous mode, however, is objectively insane.<p>Call me a luddite, but I want to shift gears. I want an I6 or V8 ICE that puts out gratuitous amounts of power and, yes, NOISE. I want sharp steering feedback and beefy front rotors and stiff, aggressive suspension. I don&#x27;t want a damn Chevy Bolt, I want a real freaking sports car with all the money poured into the performance, and none into comfort.<p>There are tons of buyers like me, too. SoCal has a huuuge car culture of guys who buy old toyotas, porsches old and new, Rx7s, miatas, BRZs and WRK STIs, old Lancer Evos. Tons of us LIKE driving. Tons of us LIKE offensively loud engines. Tons of us LIKE manually shifting. What about us? What happens when other people finally surrender their autonomy to shitty self-driving EVs?<p>What Ford should really do is build a mid&#x2F;rear engined mustang-based sport coupe. Enough of the autonomous vehicle nonsense. It&#x27;s over a decade away anyway. Let the people who like driving, drive!