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Originally Posted by jflogerzi
Time will tell. Overall I like the new look, power looks good. Great GT card with some handling chops. Love the stock exhaust. Sadly out of my price range by a long shot. Lets hope this venture is successful as it will encourage them to build more sport cars in era where EVs might make auto executives think twice about low volume low profit sports cars.
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I think the opposite will happen with EVs, the power train will be able to be taken off the shelf from any mass market car available and get stuffed into a little nimble chassis for rocket ship performance at a fraction of the cost of today's power trains due to the economies of scale. That also offers tight packaging with a low cg that means more space for cool suspension designs like longer formula style control arms for better camber and toe curves.
The last boom of sports cars in the late eighties was fueled by leaps forward in engine efficiency, as EFI hit consumer cars and companies figured out how to reduce emissions without sacrificing power you got engines like the 4AGE, KA24, Ford Modular Engine, Honda B-series, LSx, Mitsubishi 4G6 etc. etc. That were in mass production for high volume cars and trucks making them cheap to toss into sports cars. I expect EVs will follow a similar trend once battery tech makes another step forward and they gain significant market share, there's only so many ways to wire them up so the designs will converge and cheapen to the point where I bet people will eventually start doing motor swaps to EV because it's cheaper than sourcing parts to keep an ICE running and you get better performance.
Edit: Tyler, I mean, either you're willing to buy a $50k BMW or not, it's really a question of if it drives well enough for you to take the risk right? The engine, mechanics and interior aren't going to be anything new or scary or prone to change over the next three to four years, it'd only be body panels and such at risk, but the Germans are actually good at that now, except I guess shock tower bracing.