Posted on 06/03/2016 12:33:55 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Tesla Model X’s panoramic windshield was one of the biggest ‘surpise feature’ unveiled at the production launch in September last year. In previously unveiled prototypes, the Model X was featuring a normal windshield, but the production version is equipped with a panoramic windshield extending all the way above the driver and front passenger seats.
The feature, combined with the structure of the Falcon Wing doors, makes the Model X’s passenger compartment truly unique, but some are worried about the replacement cost since the windshield is one of the most at risk part of any vehicle – and rightfully so it seems
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Ya think?
Big friggin' greenhouse ...
Yeah man. I remember the days you could buy a 1963 Comet (3 on the tree) or VW bug for less than a hundred bucks. Those bugs were COLD in the winter!
I wonder if that stock photo of the Pacer had a caption to it. Such as “Son, I can’t believe you went ahead and brought home that piece of junk. Four years of college down the drain!”
Seriously though I owned a ‘76 Baby Blue Pacer. Bought it for $800 cash. I just needed a running car to get me through the summer.
That September, I drove it to the nearest junkyard, removed the plates, and just left it there with the keys in the ignition. I still catch grief about that car today!
We had one of those. (AMC Eagle)
“what do you do if “
You forget the market for the vehicle is liberal.
You’re not supposed to think - your supposed to feel it’s good and not realize the bad news until reality slaps you in the face later.
I had one too. I bought it for $75. A transmission coolant line had chaffed against the framerail until it leaked and pumped all the fluid out, ruining the trannie. I found a junkyard replacement and ran it for two years before selling it to mexicans for $1800.
So, about double the price of a tail light.
Smart but not wise. How much more air conditioning is required to cool that vehicle in sunny California? What is the environmental cost? How about the driving distractions it causes, not to mention injury when one crashes? Bling, bling bling. Plenty of morons will buy it.
A couple or four ought to do the job and look good doing it.
Wonder what the energy overhead is for running AC at max cool?
in 1988, I had a ‘82 RX-&. I went to Philly for thr first time for a new job. Eventually I called the cops foe someone knocking out my rear deck window. Cop asked” How much did they steal?” I said about $60.00 worth of tapes. He said “Why did you lock The F’n thing?” I said to keep thieves out. He laughed and said since have a $500 deductible on your comrehensive if I’d left the “F’N thief magnet” open I’d only be out $60”. Makes sense. Never locked my since.
You wouldn’t want to hit a moose in that thing.
But I am beginning to think it probably comes with a giant sliding shade. It would be cool if the shade extended fully to the dashboard (only while parked).
“OK, so on the Tesla, what do you do if you’re driving at sunset/sunrise & the Sun’s in your eyes. “
You flip out the sun visors.
Ouch. That’s about as worth the cost as is putting a pickup body six feet off the ground on massive tires, eliciting the question, “Why?”
Key board just shot iself.
The concept failed for many reasons, primarily because the performance was crippled when the expected Wankel engine was cancelled by GM (would have been sourced to AMC). The Wankel had significantly greater performance for size and weight. With a car designed for one type of power plant, AMC, as the weak sister of the 4 car companies, could not easily pivot to another choice.
Our Boy Scout troop leader had a 1977 AMC Pacer and I rode in the back seat all the way to and from a campout at Death Valley in what basically amounted to a greenhouse on wheels without air conditioning. Zero shade from the burning sun. We were roasting in the back seat so he opened up the driver’s door window to “let in air” that was like a blast furnace. The only thing we had to drink was warm garden hose water from our canteens.
The car was so loaded down with camping crap that the wheezy Pacer could only do 50mph which was fine with the troop leader since the Nixon limit was 55mph at the time and because he was a government lawyer he was a strict law-abiding ding dong. Honestly, he only kept the scout troop going so that his son could make Eagle Scout for whatever political future his father was planning for him. They both rode in the front seat talking about the law while dad quizzed his son on various aspects of legal theory.
I remember being so annoyed with the driver’s constant manual shifting on the uphill stretches using the 3-speed manual. Downshifting just made a bunch of noise and no extra power. The whole drive there and back was nothing but the driver constantly shifting the gears (”RRrrRRRR!!! RrrRRR-RRRR!!!”) while we sat dehydrating like strips of beef jerky from the sun beating down and gale force hot wind blowing onto our faces from the open window while they chattered away in the front seat about tort law and other nonsense to my 11 year old ears. I was licking the cap of my canteen trying to get the last drops of moisture out of it. Other lucky kids got to ride in the assistant scout leader’s diesel truck that made it to the campsite and back home hours before we did.
What a miserable vehicle. Whenever I see an AMC Pacer I’m transported right back to that miserable trip I took ages ago. After I graduated high school and read that American Motors Corporation went belly-up, I said “Good”.
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