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Originally Posted by olddog

From the perspective of an old dog that grew up in the tail end of the muscle car era, where a factory stock car was frowned on, a modified car that was done by writing a check commanded little respect, and the guy who built his own engine was king, an electric motor sports car is about as sterile and fun as going to an artificial insemination clinic to get your wife pregnant.

If indulging in one of life's most sublime pleasures is solely viewed as a means to "get your wife pregnant", then it's difficult for us to relate on common ground. That's sort of like buying a sports car for the singular purpose of picking up the mail.

Originally Posted by olddog

At least an engine sounds good. Might as well go to an amusement park, if you want to hear electric motors hum.

I saw some videos of a Tesla owner who races against some seriously fast ICE cars and kicks royal butt. They do the noisy, smoky burnout thing and then the Tesla walks away from them in relatively quiet fashion. In one of them he gives a hard acceleration ride to a guy who he just trounced along with the dude's son. Their reaction to the brutal pull of the Tesla says it all. Anything but amusement park sterile!
PS: I do get your point of view. It's just that I'm also open to new (and maybe one day better) ways of accomplishing the same thing.