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Why does everyone seems to forget that this car existed? Without it, we wouldn't the Model S.
Also, ITT: Cars forgotten by time
We only forgot about it because there's a new one coming in 2017.
Reliant tried for a small FR roadster revival before Mazda pulled it off. Not sure exactly why it failed, but I think poor build quality and Reliant's utter lack of prestige were probably both factors. The looks probably didn't help, either.
>>14050140
Really? I wasn't aware.
>>14050141
Indeed.
>>14050140
You're right. And it does look rather nice. Not as good as the first, but still.
>>14050158
that front end ruins it
>>14050111
Probably because it was shit. It's a Lotus Elise made fat and slow that costs like 3x as much and sometimes catches on fire.
>>14050158
Elon needs to get better taste and make an electric muscle car.
>>14050184
Dad get off 4chan.
>>14050189
Hush. Don't tell your mother.
>>14050184
An electric muscle car? Isn't that a contradiction?
>>14050111
This is my favourite vehicle in GTA5.
Crazy heavy, but dat acceleration, and it's nice to cruize around with the noise.
>>14050199
Anything with tons of torque qualifies, if you ask me. I've been playing with the idea of doing a diesel swap.
>>14050168
Agree. It's nice otherwise, but it looks like they shrunk down and grafted on the grill of an anonymous family sedan (which is what they did)
>>14050209
I think a proper muscle should sound like it. A electric muscle wouldn't have that glorious V8 noise.
>>14050184
>>14050199
It's occurred to me that If someone made a muscle car that envirofags found upsetting for some reason, I'd actually be interested. The day I think about buying something without an engine is the day Elon Musk looks at something and says "dammit, that was not what I had in mind".
I have no idea what that says about my character.
>>14050229
I'd drive a Tesla as a daily, to be honest. For my week end car, I'd get a Nissan Skyline R32 GT-R.
>>14050219
>noise
https://youtu.be/SVkJjt_Peg0?t=297
In fact when I mentioned the diesel swap, that's because I can't afford the batteries for an electric swap.
>>14050229
Electric is cooler than people give it credit for. Electric is amazing. It's powerful. It's efficient. It's reliable with only 1 moving part. You don't need a gearbox - a single gear ratio will do and you reverse polarity to go backwards as fast as you go forwards, though conversions tend to use their gearboxes because it makes installation a simple drop-in.
>>14050199
>shitload of power
>fat as fuck
>shit handling due to fat
Hardly a contradiction when you consider it.
>>14050141
>poor build quality and Reliant's utter lack of prestige were probably both factors
Nah. If it was true then pic rel would fucking dominate. Miata was successful simply because it was a ridiculously good roadster at an affordable price.
>>14050111
Model Zero
>>14050326
why does it even have doors
>>14050333
>>14050255
I don't deny that electric cars can be good. I guess part of it is that all the electric cars we have now want to appeal to environmental consciousness first and auto enthusiasm second. It's more "we should make an electric sports car because electric is the future" than "we should make an electric sports car because that is the best sports car we can currently make".
I reckon I might well just be rationalising a prejudice with that, though.
>>14050352
>>14050158
It's like if Tesla forgot to make anything but the Model S.
>>14050411
They're not the only one to make all their cars look the same. Hyundai and Mitsubishi are guilty as well.
>>14050768
Fucking every manufacturer does this now. I hate it.
>>14050261
>you will never own a car as memeworthy as a Z1
>>14050111
It was an is shit compared to the Tesla. It had nothing on the Elise apart from being faster in a straight line.
It didn't have a front trunk like the Model S. The batteries weren't on the floor like the Model S.
The roadster is the prove that you can't make good innovative cars based on old designs.
>>14050361
I just want electric because its sanic
>>14050243
tesla is so much faster
>>14050887
thanks RCR
>>14051108
no one forgot it
>>14050158
that rear quarter panel looks really odd for some reason. I also wish that nose was a little longer
>>14052679
>thanks RCR
huh?
>>14050361
environmentalism needs to mature again. it used to be about wise use and ethics. now its all heartfelt "save polar bear u oil scum"
electric isnt necessarily "green" anyway. not yet
>>14053222
I'm guessing he's a fellow furfag or something.
