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Originally Posted by Petrol Head
The thing about EVs that people continue to miss the point on, and why the internal combustion engine is the only engine that should ever be used in a car - ANY car - is because the electric motor itself is soulless. It doesn't matter who makes it - ANY of the hundreds of companies around the world tha make electric motors - they make no sound. They have no distinction. Your kids won't sit up at two in the morning trying to out-guess each other whether it's a Ford 302 or a GM 3800 that drives past the house just on the exhaust note. So by that, no one who wants electric motors is really interested in cars. They can say they are, but they're not. Electric motors are all the same. Boring.
And technically useless. Because it takes little ingenuity to make one go fast. You can make one in your basement. You won't be opening the Summit Racing catalog or going to their website to look at all the different rockers or valve springs you can chose from if you want to really build an engine. Your electric motor is already faster in your $15,000 Kia. It's not even comparable.
There is not one good thing about electric motors in cars. They're for the people who don't care or know a thing about cars and simply want to get from point A to point B.
This is not the conversation for Camaro owners. It's like a conductor showing up to a concert hall ready to conduct the orchestra for a Mozart symphony and on the stage and plugged in ready to rock is a Led Zeppelin cover band.
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You might want to do some digging on some of your points.
There are a lot of Tesla owners that "play" and "tune" their cars and go to the track.
https://electrek.co/2020/06/10/tesla...eration-boost/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...une-your-tesla
https://www.mountainpassperformance....-your-model-3/
And you also state it isn't a conversation for Camaro owners, yet many here support the conversation.
As for soul? If all that make soul is the sound and vibration and having to move your right arm and left foot, then I have to disagree. Yes, revving a small block V8 is a wonderful sound. But even I have to admit a properly tuned DCT is an awesome thing to drive. I'd actually prefer it over a manual as it is a manual, you just don't have to move your arms and legs.
I'm actually cool that people buying Teslas are actually into the technology the car brings as well as the performance. My old boss, fairly old school, just bought an Model S to see where the tech was and what it did. He has pretty much had his mind changed.
I get where you are coming from. There are just fewer and fewer stalwarts out there every year. And frankly the sales of the Camaro pretty much tell the tale. The greatest Camaro ever, the best car in the segment and it ain't moving.