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Jay Leno's Roadster II Test Ride

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  1. hill

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    Leno has more fast / Quick cars than imaginable - so he's alredy experienced pretty much every kind of takeoff launch there is. It takes a lot to impress - after being around the high powered world of exotic super cars. Even so, from the look on his face ... yea, he does seem to be impressed.

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    just my guess
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    video here;



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    another one of those lying bostonians:cool:
     
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    600 miles on a charge solves all the problems.;)
     
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    NO NO NO !! Don't say that! sure as anything, you just know, the likes of LeeJay will be compelled to jump in now, & remind you that outliers still need more. Yea - you've really gone & done it now. We'll have to hear it again, under $35k, & charge in <10 minutes etc etc, Alec doesn't work for 'meeee'.
    Too late ... we'll have to go ad nauseam again & again & again. Maybe I can give the warning.
    These specs are not for everybody!
    (why do I feel that still wasn't a large enough of a caveat)

    BTW, last time I drove through Flathead Valley from So Cal - & back in the gasser, fuel cost round trip was ~ $1,200 for the nearly $2.950miles
    Horrible! Horrible! Having to make over 6 hours worth of (charge) stops, where we peed, anyway & ate, anyway & slept.
    6 hours! Horrible!
    never mind 6 รท into $1,200 of fuel is $200/hr ... & few make that kind of coin. Nevermind that $1,200 is after tax dollars so I would have actually had to make another $300 pretax just to have the $1,500 pretax spent on gas.
    It's still not worth it to the outliers - so don't buy an ev unless you're stupid!

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    Believe me, if I could afford a $250,000 toy like that, infrastructure, down time and fuel savings would be the last thing on my mind. ;)
     
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    I've got good news for you! The limited Founders Edition, first 1000 models is $250K. You can pick up a regular edition for only $200K! (y) But that is a good deal compared to other exotic cars that have lower specs for >$500K. I never owned an exotic car, but this one is tempting! ;)
     
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    I'm almost feeling sorry for @Lee Jay , I know what it is like to be picked on, piled on, and dumped on! :D This is not the way to convince our hybrid ICE addicted brethren to join the BEV revolution! ;)
     
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    dawn breaks on marblehead?:p
     
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    if i cash in a 250k cd at 2%, that's a lot of gas!
     
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    No, it's more like irony on the oily seas.
     
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    So pissed . . . I'll have to go burn a gallon of gas to check the lottery tickets.

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