The Gen3 FormulaE is a huge step down from the previous gen. They look like a knockoff star destroyer with wheels.

Came here for this. The next Gen is the best looking car we’ve had in Nascar since the mid-90s. The COT and the Twisted sister that came before it were hideous. The person who made this comment clearly doesn’t watch NASCAR, they just came here to hate on it.

Next Gen is blah? Really? COT was the ugliest and most bulbous stock car to ever exist. Read more

They’re not going to press anything, according to prior announcements they’re going to use cold-rolled 3mm sheet steel which is cut into flat panels and (possibly stir) welded together. This because cold-rolled steel is too hard for traditional press dies. Read more

Because the stainless steel was only a finishing skin over composite with the DeLorean and Middle School Musk intends on building his stupertruck out of the stuff, including really thick body panels (I forget the measurement—3mm, maybe?—it was something absurd that made me laugh when I first read it). Read more

Yeah, I was thinking it would be a bunch of hat, or some kind of damping mat bonded to it. Maybe a foam sandwich, although at some point you have to think maybe just do the creases and save yourself money and headaches. Read more

Thanks to aeroelastic flutter, you probably won’t even need to hit a bump to get some horrific noises out of those door panels. If they’re not willing/able to add creases to increase the panel rigidity, I hope they have free space for a ton of hat channel.
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I would actually respect him immensely if he somehow managed to stuff an anemic, cobbled-together nightmare of an engine designed after hours by some of the most inept European car makers of our time into this truck.  Read more

Thank you for actual technical talk instead of Elon bad or Elon good. Read more

Both springback and crumpling problems are the result of faster work hardening in stainless steel relative to carbon steel. The crumple zone thing is just a math problem. You can certainly account for decreased plastic energy dissipation in the structural design. But if boy wonder already had a product launch before… Read more

Stainless steel: all of the weight of regular steel, with the unforgiving stiffness of aluminum. Read more

It (the cyphertruck) should be safe. I won’t come within a mile of one if possible. Read more

Stainless Steel only worked on the DMC-12 because the panels were not structural in any way. The doors were stronger for collisions but every panel bolted onto the fiberglass body tub.

another fun thing with stainless is that stuff keeps a razor sharp edge and you have to grind it down. Delorean inner door skins are… Read more

So you put the Blue Evil Subaru on here, but not the 4 time world rally champion, whom the manufacturer created a mid generation car after the driver? A car that still played by the old rules when everyone else switched to dedicated rally cars? oh the travesty!

Ah. The classic Kickstarter defense. Read more

Considering Tesla lawyers recently argued that “[m]ere failure to realize a long-term, aspirational goal is not fraud,” Read more

This site is so anti-Tesla. My Model 3 has excellent panel fitment and Elon can impregnate my wife or daughter anytime he wishes. Or me. Read more

Remember nothing runs (from the law) like a Deere.
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