From 1969. Last estimates £50k to £100k The "Pink Panther car," also known as the Panthermobile, was a custom-built vehicle created for the 1969 animated TV series "The Pink Panther Show".It was based on an Oldsmobile Toronado and featured a bright pink exterior and a luxurious interior with a bar, a mobile phone, and a rear-view camera that displayed its image on a small television. https://tinyurl.com/4rucm8w2 please log in to view this image
I'd guess that maybe it's like mobile phones... Majority look the same and it's the tech on the inside which sells/differentiates. Occasionally a brand puts out a flip smart phone, but tends to be expensive and niche.
And sounds nothing like a Caterham should. It'll have been incredible acceleration, but without the noise of a proper engine it's like a brother scoring the promotion winning goal for Leeds. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
They also now do an EV version of the Caterham 7, but due to the weight of the batteries, it's actually slightly slower (both acceleration and top speed) than the original petrol version.
The Musk effect continues... April Tesla sales only account for a total of 885 vehicle sales in Germany, that is a sharp 46% nosedive from last year’s numbers. UK sales are even meeker, with only 512 new Tesla sales accounting for a 62% drop.
Politics and personalities aside I can't see why anyone buying an EV now would choose Tesla, to me they've seemed second best for a long time. Expensive, not pretty and fairly unexciting, to me at least.
For a long time they were the only real player in the marketplace with dealers and charging facilities. Now the competition has caught up there are loads to choose from so it's no surprise that Tesla's sales have dropped.
They've apparently got $800m worth of unsold Cybertrucks as well now, I've no idea why their share price isn't tanking.
I saw yesterday that they've apparently rallied, and are up $120 from their April low. Surely there's some market manipulation going on, given all the negative reports about declining sales?
it would take someone richer than Elon Musk to manipulate the share value of a trillion dollar company... There's over 3 billion shares. I guess investors see the recent blip and three month sales figures as a temporary thing long term. Perhaps the sell off was oversold and there's a whole world outside of the social media users who are against him... China doesn't give a **** that he supports Trump. Musk has left politics and back as head of Tesla, and this historically is when the company has had the most innovation and sales have followed... Investors are betting on him to come up with something.
It’s an odd situation though, sales in Europe are down 50-60%, sales in China are down 57%, sales in Canada are down 70% and even their main US market is down 9%. The Cybertruck has been a complete disaster and the much touted Robotaxi still doesn’t work properly and driverless testing has been delayed once again. It’s hard to see what’s keeping the share price so high, when so many things are going badly.
Not sure that anyone has demanded 5 minute charging. Not sure that batteries could handle it at the moment. Latest models take about 27 minutes to charge from 10% to 80% giving ca. 400km range. Not many drivers need to drive over 400km in one go without being able to take a 27 minute break, where they can charge. Sure, at this moment, diesel/petrol filling is quicker, but then so was the Concorde at crossing the Atlantic than a standard plane, and most ppl have got over the fact that this no longer commercially exists.
Took the UK a while to catch up but ... "Tesla sold 2,016 vehicles in the UK in May, down from 3,125 in May 2024 – a 36% drop, according to the monthly snapshot from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT)." https://www.theguardian.com/technol...umped-by-third-in-may-amid-elon-musk-backlash
