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before their new EV comes out

You can now have an electric Caterham 7.

@RD4590
Wow. It’s even worse than I thought.

did a big rant on that Muskvich.
https://www.alfaowner.com/posts/17946969/

@𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐫
Bugatti has no advantage at all. It’s too heavy. And Rimac? Its top speed is 412. I can’t imagine how long it took to reach 400 at the first place. It took the old Veyron 5km to reach 407 back in the days.

I rented a Muskovich (Tesla) for a drive yesterday and it was absolutely horrendous. It’s the most dangerous car I have ever driven.

@ᎶㄖҜㄩ 乃ㄥ卂匚Ҝ
Oh well, don’t miss it at 1234567. 😝

I missed a photo opportunity with my car’s odometer, today. It was going to read 123,456 miles.

@RD4590
Yep.

Maybe they’ll now compete for this 0-400-0 thing at who does it quicker.

Bugatti doesn’t do top speed run anymore. It’s now a hyper GT car.

Christian Von Koenigsegg’s Jesko Absolut broke their 0-400-0 record today. 27.83 seconds. Faster than Regera’s 28.82.

It also took 18.82 seconds for it to reach 400 km/h and 19.20 at 250 mph.

typical French car 🤣
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8e7KjPNTbL/?igsh=MTB5Nmc1M201amMzMw==

That speedo is defo their main attraction hence the car’s name.

I still felt weird of this steering wheel tho. It kinda suck.

I think the best piece of design of the Tourbillon is the Swiss timepiece-style gauges. It’s a good combination of art and engineering, defiance against the idiotic trend of big screens and touch-sensing controls.
Peasants are gonna be like “it’s so complicated, confusing, unreadable, unreliable, too many moving parts, too costly, my Huawei watch does a better job, my Tesla also does 0-100 in 2 seconds”. It satisfies their low-class cynicism.

I stopwatched this probable top speed of Tourbillon and here’s how I measured it.

0 to 400 km/h - 15.96 seconds
0 to 445 - 25.20 seconds
0-445-0 - 34.06 seconds

If proven true, that would be nuts. They finally added some louder sound on this car too.

@𝕭𝖆𝖉𝖍𝖊𝖆𝖗𝖙
They’re just not well made vehicles. I’d consider a Wrangler if I needed a dedicated off-road vehicle, but besides that Jeep’s lineup is pretty bad.

What made an impression on me about Jeep was when I got T-boned by one. I stayed safe and my car was still operable. The driver in the Jeep had to be towed because everything in front of the engine fell off.

@𝕭𝖆𝖉𝖍𝖊𝖆𝖗𝖙
They used to be decent until Fiat bought out Chrysler from Daimler.

I hear nothing but bad things about Jeep.

Oh god the steering wheel is so hideous! The speedometer looks a watch (obviously named after one).

Not to mention they also fucked up the iconic horseshoe grills too.

The new Bugatti Chiron successor looked heavily inspired from La Voiture Noire and Mistral. They only made it more luxurious than ever specially the interior. The butterfly doors are practical.

@𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐫
Yay V16!

Chiron’s successor will officially arrive on June 20.

That would be a loophole. Imagine a Ford Ranger with a juiced up Cummins and a lorry hitch welded onto the bed, towing a 55t trailer.
But the police also knows it so they usually turns a blind eye on small car customisation. A stage 1 remap and sports intake is not an issue, as long as you don’t do stupid things (like doing 120mph in city centre) or make it look stupid (like ricer widebody). Modified small cars are the least of the road hazards in China.

@𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐫
I wonder if they would develop a new engine.

@midob
Our laws are not thorough enough in terms of vehicle and road safety. I didn’t even know there was this thing called tachograph. And if they were thorough, the government wouldn’t spend enough on enforcement, because our police is understaffed. And local government isn’t as bright as the central government. And the punishment isn’t as severe as you thought, often a lot less than their income (i.e. ¥3000 job minus ¥200 fine), and they are often private contractor / outsourced so there wasn’t a “fleet” per se. And these lowlives wouldn’t mind killing a cop to get away.
There are many loopholes in China if you look closely. But at least now it’s less severe than before. There are height restrictions on local roads, with big barriers and gantries, and most HGVs cannot pass unless the driver gets crushed. On the trunk roads and motorways there are all these cameras connected to the “Skynet” surveillance system with facial recognition (not the Terminator Skynet :P). They could get away with one job but cops will knock on their door shortly. And major freight terminals and ports have banned overweight trucks because they destroy the roads, cutting off their demand. It’s a never ending armament game between the police and criminals.

@RD4590
Wow I never imagined China to be that way, I’d always thought of China as being governed with an iron fist and that law breakers would be puished severely. I find it odd that the assumption is that car customisation will lead to truck customisation, here in England truck customisation is quite common, however it’s well regulated, tachograph tampering is rare as is speed limiter tampering; the most common customisation we have here is aesthetics, remaps and straight pipe exhausts (usually with a valve to bypass the silencer).

If an company is caught with any truck with such tampering it can lead to their operator licence being revoked, making their whole fleet unusable. Also trucks in England (when used commercially) must be inspected every 6 weeks by law, and once a year by a official government tester, so illegal modifications would be found quickly anyway.