Originally Posted by jeepman3071
Originally Posted by DdDd
Everything Tesla related...
20 yrs from now most Motörheads will be dead. The people you're thinking to replace them don't have any interest in cars, lease with no passion and have no idea how to open a hood.
Within two decades everything will be electrified, possibly not using batteries. There will be as much interest in the ICE as we have in steam engines today. Just an esoteric technology from a bygone era.
For the time being I am enjoying my pentastar though.
I wouldn't say most will be dead. I'm a millennial, and there are quite a few gear heads my age, they just are a different type. My dad's generation had nice old Chevys and stuff from their childhood they would restore and drive 3 times a year to car shows. People from my generation are about horsepower, tuning, building, etc. Mainly because most stuff isn't built to last like the old cars were. I have quite a few automotive enthusiast friends, and none of us go to car shows. We like going to driving events, working on our cars, driving them on cruises, etc. There were a lot of people back in the day that had no interest in cars, just like there are today.
I think a lot of the engines admired in the future will be for their tune-ability, like the BMW B58. Electric has it's own great advantages like instant torque, but it can't replace the sound and feel of an ICE. The car guys I know who own a Tesla usually also own an ICE vehicle for fun like a Mustang or Vette.
It is amazing how many people have such little knowledge about what is going on under the hood of their vehicles or the vehicles of their children and or relatives.
I know it may be sexiest but I use to thing that it was mostly girls and women who did not know what was going on, and in general women are better at the side of the brain concerning speech, and men are better at the side of the brain concerning engineering. This is kinda verified by the very low percentage of young women in engineering courses in college.
But recently I have been surprised by some men not knowing what is going on under the hood. My brother who is a retired high-school math teacher did not know if his daughters vehicle had 4 or 6 cylinders and he had been corresponding with his mechanic and others on trying to figure out why it was not running right in the past. And one of his sons who is in his late 20's has no interest in driving, and had to be coaxed into learning to drive.
It may be that so many peoples lack of knowledge of the differences of what is going on with different vehicles, that allows some low quality low reliability vehicles to continue to sell year after year. If you ask some of these people what is the difference between a Chrysler and a Lexus of the same size vehicle, many of them will say price, but less of them will say quality. They just do not think about what the vehicle consist of, or how reliable that engine or transmission may be. They may not know how may cylinders it has, but they will pay attention to what color the vehicle they buy is, or how the wheels look.
Maybe it is the lack of knowledge of how long a vehicle should last verses the amount of money invested in it, that explains why vehicles that deprecate as fast as a Tesla are able to sell.
Originally Posted by DdDd
Everything Tesla related...
20 yrs from now most Motörheads will be dead. The people you're thinking to replace them don't have any interest in cars, lease with no passion and have no idea how to open a hood.
Within two decades everything will be electrified, possibly not using batteries. There will be as much interest in the ICE as we have in steam engines today. Just an esoteric technology from a bygone era.
For the time being I am enjoying my pentastar though.
I wouldn't say most will be dead. I'm a millennial, and there are quite a few gear heads my age, they just are a different type. My dad's generation had nice old Chevys and stuff from their childhood they would restore and drive 3 times a year to car shows. People from my generation are about horsepower, tuning, building, etc. Mainly because most stuff isn't built to last like the old cars were. I have quite a few automotive enthusiast friends, and none of us go to car shows. We like going to driving events, working on our cars, driving them on cruises, etc. There were a lot of people back in the day that had no interest in cars, just like there are today.
I think a lot of the engines admired in the future will be for their tune-ability, like the BMW B58. Electric has it's own great advantages like instant torque, but it can't replace the sound and feel of an ICE. The car guys I know who own a Tesla usually also own an ICE vehicle for fun like a Mustang or Vette.
It is amazing how many people have such little knowledge about what is going on under the hood of their vehicles or the vehicles of their children and or relatives.
I know it may be sexiest but I use to thing that it was mostly girls and women who did not know what was going on, and in general women are better at the side of the brain concerning speech, and men are better at the side of the brain concerning engineering. This is kinda verified by the very low percentage of young women in engineering courses in college.
But recently I have been surprised by some men not knowing what is going on under the hood. My brother who is a retired high-school math teacher did not know if his daughters vehicle had 4 or 6 cylinders and he had been corresponding with his mechanic and others on trying to figure out why it was not running right in the past. And one of his sons who is in his late 20's has no interest in driving, and had to be coaxed into learning to drive.
It may be that so many peoples lack of knowledge of the differences of what is going on with different vehicles, that allows some low quality low reliability vehicles to continue to sell year after year. If you ask some of these people what is the difference between a Chrysler and a Lexus of the same size vehicle, many of them will say price, but less of them will say quality. They just do not think about what the vehicle consist of, or how reliable that engine or transmission may be. They may not know how may cylinders it has, but they will pay attention to what color the vehicle they buy is, or how the wheels look.
Maybe it is the lack of knowledge of how long a vehicle should last verses the amount of money invested in it, that explains why vehicles that deprecate as fast as a Tesla are able to sell.
