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Originally Posted by timurrrr
Even though the EV will not have the "drama" of increasing torque
some ICE cars have when accelerating in one gear
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That is essentially the entire crux of my argument. The actual acceleration isn’t nearly as important to me as HOW pulls to redline. I understand this is a very specific preference (and pretty old school), but IMO you cannot beat an NA gasoline car that holds torque to redline. It just makes you want to rev the snot out of it in every gear and it is so damn fun!
Sports cars are all about feel IMO, numbers don’t matter as much as the sensation of driving.
Side note: when we had our second kid my wife wanted an SUV. Begrudgingly I agreed and we ended up with her preference in our price range: a 7YO Mercedes GLK, RWD. After driving it for a while I came to realize that I accidentally bought an absolute masterpiece of an NA V6 inside an automatic lump of child seat-carrying iron. It’s much slower than my BMW, but it’s actually a lot of fun because it’s so responsive.