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Getting AM stations over the internet via cell service seems to be a reasonable alternative. I have never needed AM radio for safety issues, since the screech of the Emergency Alert System ALSO works over FM. Sure rightwing talk radio people need AM to get their daily dose of crappola, but you...

I went and checked on my maker Slate, and discovered I had checked a bunch of stuff I am not interested in buying. Thanks, Slate, for fixing me up there. I'm still going to buy, never fear. But I am NOT buying all that stuff I first checked off!

What a bunch of stupid assertions that have nothing to do with what I'm saying. I haven't said a word about risk tolerance, and yet you keep bring it up like it means anything or is related to vehicle performance. Your desire to camp out behind slow vehicles, and have fewer opportunities to...

I agree. And most cars on the roads back then had similar performance. But, 1980 is nearly 50 years behind us. And the hard truth is that a modern Honda Accord has a better 0-60 than my 40-year-old Porsche. Modern vehicles should be capable of modern performance.

Risk-tolerance has absolutely nothing to do with what I wrote. The capability of a vehicle to make a safe pass in the allotted, legal space to do it is what I'm talking about. If you have ever driven in E. WA, where you are driving makes a big difference in how much space you have to make...

Quite bold of you to assume that the passing zones where you live are the same as the passing zones where I live. And that the traffic conditions are the same, and that the person being passed all of a sudden doesn't want you in front of them, so they accelerate, too. Having good acceleration...

Same kinds of stuff I used our pickup truck on the farm. Pick up parts, farm/yard supplies, take stuff to the dump, transport my friends in the back to the movies. OK, that last one was from the long-ago days when we sat in the bed of a truck without seat belts like we were indestructible. But...

8 seconds also isn't that fast.

Having driven in ATL traffic ONCE, I agree with you. I saw what looked like a 4'10" 90-year-old granny driving a modern Cadillac at 95 miles an hour. I was driving a rental car, and had no interest in gathering any speeding tickets, but quickly realized that NOBODY obeys the speed limits in...

2-seat sport coupe/convertible - a direct EV competitor to the Miata. A man can dream, right?

My only concern is the lack of seat heaters. Of course, this is a completely mundane thing that nobody else would even bat an eyelash about. I plan on purchasing and adding seat heaters to my Slate. Like the kind you glue to the foam under the upholstery.

I have no interest in towing anything. I suppose I might use one of those hitch receiver-mounted bike racks for when my wife and I go trail riding, but that would be the limit of use for even the receiver. If I have need of transporting anything larger than the Slate can hold, I'll rent the...

This is what I am hoping. Not so much that the range is under-stated, but that the acceleration is reported for the worst-case scenario.

Except they aren't competing with Tesla. The Slate is in a different market segment.

This is one of the reasons I'd love to be able to adapt my BMW seats into a Slate. The seats are comfortable for long-distance driving, support well, and have best-in-class seat heaters. Bonus: the base seats, covered in the faux leather BMW uses, are cheap on the used market.

Yeah, my 1978 VW Scirocco had all of 75HP. I had to flog it hard to get it up to highway speeds in any kind of reasonable time. As I recall, the 0-60 times were in the 11-12 second range. But driving a classic Porsche, a new BMW and a supercharged Audi have spoiled me with the flexibility that...

I wonder what will happen to the third brake light?

I had a 2.6L Mercedes that could barely get to 60 in eight and a half seconds, and on some of the shorter on-ramps, I had some puckery moments when the end of the ramp was there, and the car wasn't up to the speed of traffic. I learned to flog the car hard. I want my new Slate to be able...

Sure thing. Currently, the Slate has a 0-60 of 8 seconds. No matter how hard you press that lever to the right of the brake pedal, that's all you're going to get. Since nothing is free, getting additional acceleration means that you're going to get less range if you use that acceleration. This...

I don't think you understand the request.