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Originally Posted by darcane

Since when are gas powered cars "dying off"? Electric cars are still a miniscule percentage of the market and have some huge (insurmountable?) hurdles to overcome before they can realistically replace someone's primary mode of transportation. Battery life, range, and time to recharge are all issues that your typical car buyer doesn't want to deal with..

Darcane, if you think that an EV cannot replace someone's primary transportation, you must not have thought about it very hard. I live in a rural area, commute 34 miles, and have driven a 2012 Mitsubishi i-MiEV over 66000 miles so far, with the only consumables being a set of tires and cabin air filters. Meanwhile, the family minivan is down to about 6k miles per year of '2nd car' errands and long trips. Once you get to plug in every night, gas seems so... unrealistic.

Frank, you're sure right to "prefer driving a slow vehicle fast than a fast vehicle slow." But you might as well sell the VMax because it's simply a middle-aged suicide machine. A friendly fellow in my church who's refused to grow up got all but killed on his bike by an inattentive driver last weekend. If you have dependents, driving a motorcycle in traffic is much more foolish than driving a muscle car.