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Ford’s new modified Mustang Mach-E is ready to fly up Pikes Peak (www.theverge.com)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (5 children)

I really don't understand why car guys haven't become completely obsessed with EVs. They are so much more powerful every practical way.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Despite the obvious political divide in the US, part of it might be that you can’t tune it or mod it yourself.

Think of them as gaming PCs in terms of customization and performance options. I know people who rebuilt their cars over and over, and even tweak the most minor injection timing to get the most out of it.

Outside of a Plaid or anything in that ballpark, a custom built ICE Mustang will probably smoke something like a EV6 GT in a quarter mile by a second or two. If you could realistically rebuild and mod your EV6 it might be a different story, but instead you get drift mode on that specific model because an executive deemed it so. In this sense the EV6 is a Chromebook. The Mustang runs Linux. The car guys are nerds.

I’m in your camp, I fucking love not having a transmission and being “speedy” in all of my practical daily driving. I’ll never rebuild a Mustang, but if there were an open sourced EV I could mod I’d be there in a heartbeat - and I bet some car guys might come over too.

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