Will Stinger be a collectors item?

[stoopid]

I think I'm just a bit sad because I've dreamed about owning a 360 Modena with a gated shifter ever since I was 16. By the time I can safely and comfortably afford to finance a car like that, while keeping up with maintenance, combustion-based vehicles will be obsolete. Unless I'm wrong. Not sure.

But yes... always happy!

There will come a day when humanity looks back with a collective face palm at our current obsessions with burning fuels. But that's the tech we've had, until very recently. Imagine feeding your car grass/hay and having it shit every now and then, clothes covered in soot after your commute, or having to walk everywhere. Progress moves on with or without us. So, indeed you may never have the vehicle of your dreams but you can assume someone (car maker or modders) is going to make something faster that doesn't burn fuel to move.

I've never been enthralled by the exhaust note of our performance cars as much as many of my fellow enthusiasts, so for me the move away from combustion engines isn't of any real importance or loss. How quick the car is and how it handles/rides are my measures for success. Living in Vegas, I'd be happy the day the combustion engine dies. The hot rodded cars here are so loud you can hear them more than a block away. Pure noise pollution. Seems childish to me.

 

[Kamauxx]

There will come a day when humanity looks back with a collective face palm at our current obsessions with burning fuels. But that's the tech we've had, until very recently. Imagine feeding your car grass/hay and having it shit every now and then, clothes covered in soot after your commute, or having to walk everywhere. Progress moves on with or without us. So, indeed you may never have the vehicle of your dreams but you can assume someone (car maker or modders) is going to make something faster that doesn't burn fuel to move.

I've never been enthralled by the exhaust note of our performance cars as much as many of my fellow enthusiasts, so for me the move away from combustion engines isn't of any real importance or loss. How quick the car is and how it handles/rides are my measures for success. Living in Vegas, I'd be happy the day the combustion engine dies. The hot rodded cars here are so loud you can hear them more than a block away. Pure noise pollution. Seems childish to me.

So much to agree AND disagree with so I gave your post an "I" for "I don't know."

 

[rpoffen]

Some of the earliest cars were actually electric. Then when internal combustion came around, most of the earliest ones actually ran on alcohol. Then when the people who discovered that gas could be made from crude oil and used for cars decided to build their monopoly, they fought to get prohibition passed to essentially destroy the alcohol industry. Its been dino fuel ever since.

 

[WRXtoStingerGT]

Some of the earliest cars were actually electric. Then when internal combustion came around, most of the earliest ones actually ran on alcohol. Then when the people who discovered that gas could be made from crude oil and used for cars decided to build their monopoly, they fought to get prohibition passed to essentially destroy the alcohol industry. Its been dino fuel ever since.

Interesting! I actually never knew that!

There will come a day when humanity looks back with a collective face palm at our current obsessions with burning fuels. But that's the tech we've had, until very recently. Imagine feeding your car grass/hay and having it shit every now and then, clothes covered in soot after your commute, or having to walk everywhere. Progress moves on with or without us. So, indeed you may never have the vehicle of your dreams but you can assume someone (car maker or modders) is going to make something faster that doesn't burn fuel to move.

I've never been enthralled by the exhaust note of our performance cars as much as many of my fellow enthusiasts, so for me the move away from combustion engines isn't of any real importance or loss. How quick the car is and how it handles/rides are my measures for success. Living in Vegas, I'd be happy the day the combustion engine dies. The hot rodded cars here are so loud you can hear them more than a block away. Pure noise pollution. Seems childish to me.

Haha absolutely!

I'm not a big "car must be loud guy" but I do want to hear that exhaust note on an aggressive downshift or holding RPM's at the higher range. I used to work for Tesla and I absolutely loved the acceleration from our S-P100D with L+ but it was just missing "something" if that makes sense? I drove a slightly modified WRX at the time and I genuinely had more fun driving that car all around and about than I did any of the Tesla cars that I was allowed to take home for the day.

But yes... I am confident that my next car after my 10-year warranty is up for the Stinger will probably be something electric. The only question is if it will be low to the ground and sporty or a supercar killing sedan like the current 1.9s Model S.