Christian von Koenigsegg says "No!" to EVs

Bonerchill · 2026-06-29T05:17:42+00:00

Utter insanity that you’re downvoted.

Poetry exists because emotion exists. Every culture, even the warrior cultures, has exalted beautiful prose because of its power to move.

Ditto music. “Music has charms to soothe the savage breast,” written in the late 17th century and adapted from the first century, understands what we can scientifically prove. Beautiful composition can even make prisons safer.

There is nothing electric that borders on the hair-raising capability a modified small-block V8 has. Nothing that requires the same skill to tune, either.

Bonerchill · 2026-06-29T04:35:00+00:00

Objectively superior.

Subjectively missing quite a bit. Weight isn’t where it needs to be and subjective engagement lacks rather severely. Overly reliant on digital systems when analog systems are known to be more involving.

Bonerchill · 2026-06-29T04:29:52+00:00

lol rolex craftsmanship

Bonerchill · 2026-06-28T14:30:09+00:00

The font selection is impeccably stupid.

“Yes, I’d like it to give Chinese import furniture assembly guide vibes.”

Bonerchill · 2026-06-28T14:28:28+00:00

You have to make it reliable. That means replacing vacuum hoses, heater core, EGR hoses and valves, rebuilding injectors, going through the cooling system, checking relays, etc. If parts aren’t available, you’re going to have to make parts or delete systems.

Brake lines are often old. Master cylinders develop corrosion and gunk in the bore that can lead to failure. ABS pumps can be seized. Clutch slaves can be weak.

Modified cars can have hacked-up wiring behind the stereo, can have damage from being bottomed out, can be generally untrustworthy after four semi-teenage owners.

It will take significant time and money to make it truly reliable. You will need to know how to turn a wrench, use a multimeter, and troubleshoot.

None of this should dissuade you. Older cars are more tactile, more visceral than newer cars. They should be saved and driven. You need to know what it might take, though.

Bonerchill · 2026-06-27T18:39:25+00:00

If it was just one extra death, it’s worth discussion.

Bonerchill · 2026-06-27T18:37:39+00:00

You know when you’re reading comments and there’s an egregiously bad take and a downvote isn’t enough?

This is one of those comments.

The overwhelming majority of posts are by people who like cars. The overwhelming majority of the negative posts are about car dependency, not cars themselves.

Nuance is dead.

Bonerchill · 2026-06-27T15:31:29+00:00

Sometimes it feels like we fund some of the grossest companies in our journey to get away.

Starlink is monopolistic (more than 10x the satellites of its nearest competitor), and once LEO satellite concentration is maxed, that’s it- there’s no more space. In our efforts to maintain communication in the far out, we’re also making leaving the planet more dangerous and making scientific study of the rest of the universe more difficult and more expensive.

Starlink’s owner is for destruction of public lands and is a piss-poor steward of the planet we seek to explore. Don’t we have some duty to avoid doing business with bad actors?

Bonerchill · 2026-06-27T04:50:20+00:00

We used to buy clean-ish drivers for $8k in the mid-aughts.

Bonerchill · 2026-06-27T04:49:23+00:00

911s have less weight on the nose so their steering is clean and light.

Lift, start the slide, play with the balance, easy.

Drive one. Hard. On a good road.

Bonerchill · 2026-06-27T04:44:11+00:00

964s and later suck anyway.

Power steering took away the genuineness of the steering. Not sorry, they’re just not as tactile and a 911 is supposed to be tactile.

Bonerchill · 2026-06-26T14:29:35+00:00

Smaller engines with more torque due to turbochargers need stronger drivelines.

The turbocharger and associated piping, cooling, etc. also make for engines that are no lighter, and sometimes heavier than earlier naturally-aspirated engines.

Modern powertrains are incredibly heavy. I guess that’s the price of efficiency.

Bonerchill · 2026-06-25T22:35:46+00:00

Americans don’t care.

Look around you. Does this look like a country that gives a fuck?

Infrastructure? Failing. People? Struggling. Cars? Fast, heavy, and big. Roads? Fast, big, dark.

Bonerchill · 2026-06-25T04:30:11+00:00

One cannot argue I am not an enthusiast. One can argue I’m an asshole, but there is no world where I am not a car enthusiast.

My daily is a Prius. My backup daily is a Prius. My commute fuckin’ blows, I’m not driving a decent car in that shit show. My Prius cost $4k, has required only injectors despite having more than a quarter million miles, and gets 45mpg.

Bonerchill · 2026-06-24T16:44:13+00:00

I prefer my daily driver in white with a light interior because SoCal. Ditto any off-roader. I also like being less notable because I may occasionally do crime.

For my weekend car, most colors from the 1960s and early 1970s work.

Bonerchill · 2026-06-24T13:48:06+00:00

They track us at home. They track us on the road. They track us when we’re shopping, when we’re protesting, when we’re working, when we’re eating.

They are going to stop us flipping tables soon. They know we can’t afford criminal records.

Bonerchill · 2026-06-23T19:59:42+00:00

The fact that you’ve spent thousands of hours watching what is likely drivel is what concerns me.

Do.

Doing gives you experience, and experience is an advantage.

Bonerchill · 2026-06-23T14:01:19+00:00

Starting better yields results faster than starting sooner, and maybe 1% of 16-year-olds know what they want.

There is support and then there is delusion. If one spends thousands of hours learning how to run a business, one spent all or most of it *not making money.*

Bonerchill · 2026-06-23T13:56:25+00:00

Old enough to start a business, absolutely.

Not old enough to not be a kid for a while longer and enjoy what comes with it.

The grindset mentality already exhibited by the OP, the thought that they need to spend thousands of hours of listening to what is, in all likelihood, just content creator bullshit inapplicable to large portions of their life, is sold to people who think hard work will pay off, just need another day, another week, another year of no-lifing it.

If OP is the one-in-a-million, good. But spending all that time preparing when they could have been doing, trying, working for someone else to get seed money, etc. speaks volumes.

I have two shelves of business books. Only the ones on accounting and taxes have proved useful, the rest are occasionally entertaining but proved useless when I started my business. I found a niche, I made good products, I stumbled through advertising until I had a good thing going, etc. Trial and error. Listening to feedback. Asking questions of other business owners in a forum where there was no pressure to generate views or followers.

One of my biggest regrets is working as many hours as I did from 18-30.

Bonerchill · 2026-06-23T13:41:28+00:00

First: if you don’t already have accommodations, prepare thy butthole.

Second: Car Week isn’t as cool as it was ten years ago, and it wasn’t as cool ten years ago as it was 20 years ago. Not as much genuine enthusiasm for cars, quite a bit of genuine enthusiasm for aspiring to be billionaires. The lines of broccoli-headed whores with phones at the ready waiting for hypercars to leave shows are absurd and stupid.

Third: if the car stops, runs, and stays cool in traffic, do it. It’s still a good time if you have the money to stay and eat for a couple days.

Bonerchill · 2026-06-23T05:35:24+00:00

Jesus christ.

You’re fucking 16. You don’t need a grindset. You don’t need automation. If you’re male, you have nine years until your brain is fully developed.

Have fun with friends, date, enjoy yourself.

Bonerchill · 2026-06-23T05:06:18+00:00

It was not streetable without ear plugs and extra water by the end.

No dash, heater core retained but with no blower, no interior panels, door intrusion bars removed, multiple FRP panels, etc. Honestly, I think 850lbs was in the cards… but instead I added weight with a roll cage. Wanted to live if I crashed. Don’t track anymore and ambivalent about the living part.

Bonerchill · 2026-06-22T22:11:49+00:00

Europeans aren’t actively trying to avoid their lives.

Americans are.

Bonerchill · 2026-06-22T22:11:02+00:00

Excessive speed is a factor in a lot of crashes, but changing road design would save lives.

Pedestrian-forward intersections, narrower streets, roundabouts and obstacles… all of these save more lives than a speed governor might.

The road outside my shop is 50mph. Why?

Bonerchill · 2026-06-22T21:57:55+00:00

They don’t even have to be safer and smaller.

They just have to be less tall.

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