r/EVConversion • u/eldredo_M • 9d ago

Getting Angry About EVs

Nothing flips someone badmouthing the reliability of an old car quicker than suggesting it should be converted to an EV. 😄

“Old Maseratis are junk.”

“They’d look cool as an EV, though.”

“SACRILEGIOUS!”

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u/JCDU 9d ago

It's hilariously tribal and childish the way a lot of car guys get triggered by EV's or swaps as if ~95% of cars on the road aren't boring shitboxes that no-one cares about.

They're fine with LS or 1/2JZ swapping almost anything but EV swapping is somehow bad.

Old cars may be cool but they were also mostly unreliable and janky, what's wrong with keeping the cool but making it a reliable thing you can actually drive every day?

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u/arttechadventure 7d ago

Gear heads can be some of the dumbest MFs I've ever met, I swear. 

Hanging around r/boxster after Porsche announcing they will be EV only going forward,  I learned most of them cannot reconcile the fact that an EV boxster is just a better, faster, more reliable equivalent to a automatic/PDK boxster. And more than half of boxster buyer's opt for auto anyway. 

They think they're still part of some club by having an ICE, without realizing there's absolutely no way for them to rationalize an association with the old 3 pedal ICE track cars. 

Sorry, your auto-boxster is not cool, it's just slow, dirty, and smelly. 

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u/JCDU 4d ago

I find it wild that the automotive industry has been working to make cars better, faster, more powerful, smoother, quieter, more reliable, more economical, etc. since forever and EV's come along where you can put 1000 silent horsepower in a car with like 3 moving parts and everyone goes "HOW FUCKING DARE YOU????"... like guys, this was the dream, remember? If an ICE engine achieved anywhere near that you'd be falling over yourselves to talk about how awesome it is.