Minor highjack .. I apologize in advance
electrics? still "golf carts" to me. quiet .. maybe that's whats pissing me off. but maybe I am like that old codger, my age now but 120 years ago, bah-humbuggin' that horseless carriage ... without "Mr. Ed" in front of it. WTF is the world coming to!?
That Lucid .. somebody put a video here with one of the enthusiast mags' writers extolling that cars virtues. 1,100 horses, on demand, at any speed. He described a "game" I have been playing with my fast cars since I was an idiot teenager. "Get that spot" .. it may have other names when you played it.
On the interstate, pile of traffic ahead of you 1/4 - 1/2 mile. You say to your self, or your riding buddy. I am gonna go
"get that spot, left lane in front of the white car, the SUV .. next to the Yellow Freight rig. Count to 30!" By yourself in the car? turn up the music to try to make it before the drum solo.
You downshift, put your foot in it, go tear-assin' up the interstate, weavin', bobbin' lane to lane, whooshin' and exhaust roar, and tach-wrappin' the whole time.
Slow down (dry your sweaty hands/calm your nerves), so the people you passed can give you thumbs up, or flip you the bird .. whatever. The satisfaction of owning a car that do what I want, whenever I want .. that's how I grew up.
That magster guy -- i thought he was wetting his pants while he was talking -- described the exhilaration (if he wanted to) of doing that 'get the spot" thing in the Lucid Air. Heck, you dont even need a Lucid Air to do it .. top of the line Teslas can do it. Y'all seen the 1/4 mile races.
My point: I still have ICE cars that get that spot today while many cars cannot. You all do too. A Lucid though? that thing can put ANY of our cars to shame with the ease ..seemingly effortless "shaken not stirred" way 1,100 horses on demand. There's nothing like it.
Its not really a "fair fight" -- electrics aint got the range -- that'll get fixed in time. I read the Lucid Air's top speed is a buck seventy or something. Many ICE's are faster .. but would get an a**-whoopin' at "normal" speed. electrics will ALWAYS have the raw take-off performance though -- no
streetable, pump gas burning ICE vehicle will EVER match
Guess what I am saying is this.
Do i still want a Hellcat? Yup - I luv Bob's new cars. If over $100K to get into one? Guess I will never own one.
But as many of us observed, and others us must may begrudgingly come to know -- while it may take another 30-50 years before ICE's (if ever) get largely supplanted by electrics,
its gonna happen.
Before that day comes
I might have to get an electric in a few years .. wet my pants playing "get the spot" -- while I still can/may need to one day (if I can't make it to the rest stop) do both.
