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Well over 80% of all cars in Europe have a manual gearbox.

Which is odd, because according to BMW, they only made the recent M5 with a stick to satisfy the American market!

http://www.carbuzz.com/news/2016/8/14/The-E60-M5-With-A-Stick-Shift-Was-BMW-s-Gift-To-North-America-7734955/

https://jalopnik.com/the-manual-transmission-bmw-m5-and-m6-are-dead-1769251264

I have a manual in all of my vehicles (Jeep Wrangler, Porsche 968 Cabriolet, BMW E46 M3, Ducati Multistrada 620 Dark). Heck, I even have manual landing gear in my plane. But they're a dying breed. Ferrari already dropped it. Porsche brought it back in some recent models (Cayman GT4, 991R) but by and large they've disappeared. There was a recent sales event at Beverly Hills BMW, and with over 200 cars in stock, none was a standard. :( McLaren? Nope. (Aston Martin still makes 'em though.) Etc.

Can someone tell me something? Will an electric car burn like a gasoline car?

Yes.

213 deaths and 8200 injuries due to rollovers.

http://www.carbuzz.com/news/20...

Yeah sorry. No. History doesn't actually bear out your story.

[quote]It sued Consumer Reports the following year, and although they would settle out of court eight years later, Suzuki probably came out looking worse. The problem was that a Suzuki internal memo from 1985 surfaced, saying "It is imperative that we develop a crisis plan that will primarily deal with the "roll" factor. Because of the narrow wheelbase, similar to the Jeep, the car is bound to turn over." The Pinto-like paper trail would have surely been even more damaging if Suzuki hadn't already pulled the vehicle out of North America. Suzuki would eventually admit to having knowledge of 213 deaths and 8,200 injuries as the result of rollover, and would settle some 200 lawsuits.[/quote]

http://www.carbuzz.com/news/20...

There are 17 vehicle fires every hour. Or 150,000/yr. There aren't enough front pages.

Yup, which is why the only ones that are considered newsworthy by the MSM are the oddball ones. Like when 5 or 6 models of a brand new type of car that's only existed for 2 years mysteriously (or less-than-mysteriously) burst into flames in the course of 12 months.

But that's not to say that "normal" car fires, and even the potential for car fires, doesn't make national news on a regular basis.

Here is an article from just last year, about how Ford Explorers are infamous for catching fire.

Is this enough to get the Tesla fanboys to shut the fuck up and stop acting like some sort of singled-out pariahs? How about this? Are six hundred ninety six million hits good enough for them? Probably not.

You're absolutely right. He picked a junker of a supercar. According to this article, the AMG CL55 is one of the fastest-depreciating automobiles available. Its starting price tag is $120,000, but with 115,000 miles on the clock, it probably cost less than $10,000 for the initial purchase.

One of the big problems Karma had was getting reliable suppliers for their parts, they didn't have the presence to get what they wanted

Another big problem: People shelling out $100K for a car want something fast and obscene that won't burst into flames upon getting a bit damp.

At least Ferrari can pull off 2 out of 3.

Interesting. I was doing research on the Model S and people talk about the CVT in it online. I mean hell, http://www.carbuzz.com/Tesla/2013_Tesla_Model-S/ but more googling says that this is wrong and it is indeed direct drive.