Electric Shelby Cobra clone

[Big Green]

I like it.

 

[bbbass]

Well I don’t think anyone is going to be driving a Cobra cross country but your point is noted.


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I would. If that was my car I'd want to enjoy it.

Had me a Sunbeam Tiger when I was young... that was my car for everything. Drove it to work 1hr drive, drove it all day to the lake on vacation. Sucked because it always overheated. But that car would get on the freeway going 70mph in first gear; while making a nice deep throaty V8 sound.

 

[bigtex10mm]

Well call me, old fashioned, set in my ways, hard headed and even closed minded. I have driven a high end Tesla that flew like a bat out of hell......but it was just not my cup of tea, brand of whiskey or whatever statement you like. As far as my likes, well first I love the look of a V8 sitting under the hood, even in factory color/trim, over a bank of batteries any day. I love the sound of a throated exhaust system screaming out the tones of power. I love the feel of shifting a standard transmission, powering through the gears while watching the tach/speedometer chasing each other to the other side of 0. I love the rumble of a hot cam while sitting at a light. These things are what make the muscle car what it is....a charge to the senses. None of these will ever come out of an electric car. Yes, as in the Electric Shelby Cobra, you have the wrapper just not the other things that make it what it was meant to be. Yes, the electric vehicles of the world will come, and there are those who will embrace them. To each their own!! As for me, I wish they would leave such a fine example of what a muscle car is alone!! This of course is just my humble opinion.

 

[Lazyfaire]

Back in the day. Driving at speed on a 4 lane highway I hear a rumble and am trying to figure out wtf it was. A quarter mile behind me i see a car that I don't recognize coming on. Gets closer and I move over to the 'slow lane'. I'm doing 70 and he passes me with the rumble and roar of a Shelby Cobra doing at least 85. Love the old V-8s.

 

[Katydid1984]

I like old muscle forget the new..... I have so many fond memories of my mom's mustang growing up. I can't wait for it to be done and street legal; especially now that I'm old enough to drive it.

 

[majormadmax]

We all know what happened to the dinosaurs!

I was on the highway yesterday when a Tesla pulled up aside me (I moved over to allow traffic to merge out).

The driver floored it, and it was gone in a shot! I have seen electric cars accelerate before, but this one simply took off like a rocket!

Ain't no combustion engine going to complete with the torque of an electric engine.

They will make a lot of noise and smoke; but when it comes to performance, they will be seriously outgunned!

So for those who cling to the past, enjoy being embarrassingly smoked by electric sedans driven by millennials!

 

[ZX9RCAM]

About the only thing they can't do, is match top end speed.

 

[Brains]

I’m just stating the obvious. Electric vehicles are coming and aren’t going anywhere. I’m not saying they are the best solution and certainly not less detrimental to the environment.

But in the comparison above a Tesla plaid at $130k vs a Bugatti Chiron at $2m reinforces my point. Electric technology is far ahead of gas in terms of performance at a much lower price point.

It is true that electrics are the future for the bulk of personal transportation. I wouldn't agree the tech is ahead of gas though. It's still pretty far behind. It's all about energy density and the ability to rapidly transfer that energy. Both a Tesla and my Dodge can drive 300+ miles and run 11 second quarter miles. The difference is that I can go from depleted to full capacity in a couple minutes. We don't have the ability to shove that much energy into a battery that fast, because the technology simply isn't there yet. Not to mention, 18.5 gallons of gas is a lot lighter and takes up a lot less space than a 100kWh battery pack. Where electric beats ICE (Internal Combustion Engines) is in energy conversion efficiency. That Tesla 100kWh battery is equivalent to about 3 gallons of gas.

Well call me, old fashioned, set in my ways, hard headed and even closed minded. I have driven a high end Tesla that flew like a bat out of hell......but it was just not my cup of tea, brand of whiskey or whatever statement you like. As far as my likes, well first I love the look of a V8 sitting under the hood, even in factory color/trim, over a bank of batteries any day. I love the sound of a throated exhaust system screaming out the tones of power. I love the feel of shifting a standard transmission, powering through the gears while watching the tach/speedometer chasing each other to the other side of 0. I love the rumble of a hot cam while sitting at a light. These things are what make the muscle car what it is....a charge to the senses. None of these will ever come out of an electric car. Yes, as in the Electric Shelby Cobra, you have the wrapper just not the other things that make it what it was meant to be. Yes, the electric vehicles of the world will come, and there are those who will embrace them. To each their own!! As for me, I wish they would leave such a fine example of what a muscle car is alone!! This of course is just my humble opinion.

For car lovers, and there's fewer of us every year, there's way more to a car than just getting from point A to B. If gasoline goes away completely, there's plenty of us who already know how to convert our cars to run alcohol and can distill our own fuel

We all know what happened to the dinosaurs!

I was on the highway yesterday when a Tesla pulled up aside me (I moved over to allow traffic to merge out).

The driver floored it, and it was gone in a shot! I have seen electric cars accelerate before, but this one simply took off like a rocket!

Ain't no combustion engine going to complete with the torque of an electric engine.

They will make a lot of noise and smoke; but when it comes to performance, they will be seriously outgunned!

So for those who cling to the past, enjoy being embarrassingly smoked by electric sedans driven by millennials!

Tesla on the highway is at a distinct disadvantage - the motors are pretty far on the down slope of their efficiency curve. I ran a P90d Model S from a dig in my old 2016 Camaro SS. He drug me bad out of the hole, by 90mph I caught back up and passed him.

 

[Strat942]

Weird automotive news....

In heaven there is no beer. That's why we drink it here.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

In heaven there is no beer. That's why we drink it here.

He edited it, after my post.

 

[bbbass]

We all know what happened to the dinosaurs!

I was on the highway yesterday when a Tesla pulled up aside me (I moved over to allow traffic to merge out).

The driver floored it, and it was gone in a shot! I have seen electric cars accelerate before, but this one simply took off like a rocket!

Ain't no combustion engine going to complete with the torque of an electric engine.

They will make a lot of noise and smoke; but when it comes to performance, they will be seriously outgunned!

So for those who cling to the past, enjoy being embarrassingly smoked by electric sedans driven by millennials!

Life is a journey, not a race.

I'm 70yrs old and I drive like it. Can't see myself worrying about who's smoking what out on the highway. The last time I smoked anybody was over 50yrs ago when I delivered Sting Ray Corvettes down to Long Beach on the freeway. Those 327s and 427s were pretty fun. Time before that, a guy in a Sumbeam Alpine pulled up next to my Sunbeam Tiger at a light on Hollyweird Blvd at 1am and rapped his lil pipes. Showed him my ass for sure. But I was 18 and acting like it...

 

[pronstar]

Tesla on the highway is at a distinct disadvantage - the motors are pretty far on the down slope of their efficiency curve. I ran a P90d Model S from a dig in my old 2016 Camaro SS. He drug me bad out of the hole, by 90mph I caught back up and passed him.

That gap is gone today when comparing the latest EV tech…

Tesla’s new motors pull hard at high speeds despite only having one effective gear. And some carmakers are using gearboxes with multiple gear ratios to counteract.

There isn’t a performance gas car that can touch a performance electric car in acceleration through 160mph.


I’m not saying one is better than the other.
It just is what it is.


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[bigtex10mm]

As stated above "Life is a journey, not a race"
For me driving......well it's a sensory event. The sound of the engine revving up and down, the feel of the transmission (standard of automatic) upshifting and downshifting, the roar of the exhaust through performance mufflers. As I said before I have driven an EV and if that was all I had, I would make do. The fact that I can still get all the sensory actions from an non-EV vehicle makes me much happier and I enjoy the journey or even the race much more because of them, I choose to go that route. The EV's have their place....just not in my garage!!

 

[pronstar]

IMHO the worst thing to happen to performance cars, is the “specs page Grand Prix” where winners and losers are chosen based on test-track metrics.

Even average cars ridiculously fast and it’s getting even more ridiculous.


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[PinnedandRecessed]

One thread take away.... EV proselytizers/owners must hate revolvers.

 

[Curtis@1964]

You couldn't give me one. I'd just as soon ride a mule.

 

[Whistler]

So they're fast out of the hole, except for 1/4 milers who cares? If that's all they have going for them I'll stick with my old truck. AND I can work on it if needed.

 

[majormadmax]

Henry Ford once said, "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses!"

Semper progredi!

 

[Mike_from_Texas]

That gap is gone today when comparing the latest EV tech…

Tesla’s new motors pull hard at high speeds despite only having one effective gear. And some carmakers are using gearboxes with multiple gear ratios to counteract.

There isn’t a performance gas car that can touch a performance electric car in acceleration through 160mph.


I’m not saying one is better than the other.
It just is what it is.


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Yep and then there’s this:



Super exotic for sure but so are other cars that come anywhere near this level of performance.


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[Brains]

Yeah, I'd drive it. I am surprised it only pulls a 1.447 sixty foot, but that is a lot of mass to get moving.