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I. I'd be driving a Highland Model 3 performance now if it wasn't for the lack of indicators. I test drove it with the intention of trading my current model 3, but walked away thinking "not yet".

You get used to the buttons pretty quick.
Failing that, you can buy these soon:


We have the buttons from the same company, very good.
 
Yeah, I’m sticking with my DeLorean because that was designed and built by an upstanding member of the community.
Nah.....you're sticking with your DMC-12 as it's off the scale cool!

Never mind that you have to release the handbrake every time you get in, that's a minor inconvenience...

BTW, that's another motor designed by the magic pen of Giugiaro.
 
I remember the 1st one (Green I think?, then you got an old Tuscan, can't recall a third one.
Yes a green Tuscan from 2003, and two blue Grantura’s from 1962 and 1966.

The middle one was bought for the spares that came with it, and I need to sell it again now that summers coming…but I do love it.

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Yes a green Tuscan from 2003, and two blue Grantura’s from 1962 and 1966.

The middle one was bought for the spares that came with it, and I need to sell it again now that summers coming…but I do love it.

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I know it would be motoring-blasphemy, but wouldn't it have been good if Tesla had acquired TVR early. Youtube has some interesting TVR conversions.


This guy bought first gen Model 3P for £11k. with a lot of mileage... sure but £11k! 60% battery capacity after 215,000 miles.
 
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Yep. The 3.0 TDV6 engines regularly snap crankshafts.

Thanks. Was it fixed with later engines?

Do they actually know why it happens? The only suggestion I have seen is that cylinder deactivation puts uneven loads on a crankshaft.
 
So how much did they get then.
quite a lot of help

Elon Musk's companies, including Tesla and SpaceX, have received a substantial amount of government funding, totaling an estimated $38 billion in contracts, loans, subsidies, and tax credits over the past two decades.
 
So how much did they get then.
it is handy being given so much power to do what you like in the USA govt..............here is Musk giving himself a fat old contract:

As DOGE slashes budgets, FAA close to canceling $2.4b contract with Verizon and giving it to Musk’s Starlink​

 
It is worth reading the article and not just the headline. Tesla didn't get 38bn in subsidies.

It's murky; I doubt that you would find anything bold and underlined, and clearly marked as "a subsidy" - save the $7.5k (plus $2.5k in California) - on any set of accounts.

Getting a contract at a guaranteed price - like the sort of thing that the UK pays for nuclear energy, as an example - might not be termed a subsidy, but it achieves much the same result.

Like I said, it is murky.
 
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