Comments by "Piccalilli Pit" (@piccalillipit9211) on "Engineering Explained" channel.

  1. TESLA "the best part is no part" MAZDA "Hold my wankle"
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  2. ID SAY TESLA has way WAY bigger problems than a slightly iffy tow hitch
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  3. I HAVE NO INTEREST IN INTERNAL COMBUSTION engines any longer - its the chirping of a dial-up modem in the fibreoptic world - its history... I gave away a CL55 merc a year ago, Id not used it for 3 years and it was sat outside slowly rotting, better to give it to someone who cares, Ive lost interest in noisy, oily, polluting, unreliable, shaky, expensive 20th-century technology. Ill go to the classic car shows to see history - I dont want to DRIVE history.
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  4. Lifelong Mercedes S Class driver - had every model from 1989 to 2012 and Id never have another - the electronics are trash, they swapped engineering quality for electronic toys and didn't even do a good job of the electronics
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  5. When I bought my CL600 Mercedes the guy I was buying it off was showing off to me and took it up to its limiter which read 168mph on the clock - Ill confess I was terrified. We were approaching other cars doing the speed limit of 70mph at nearly 100mph. The motorway was fairly empty but even so, he was having to use all 3 lanes AND the hard shoulder to undertake and overtake... He was like 68 years old and calm as anything and fully in control - I was 43 and f-king terrified.
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  6. THERE IS A REASON YOU BUILD the chassis out of steel and the body out of aluminium - NOT the other way around...!!!
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  7. I just came to the comments to say the same, a perfect scale drawing.
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  8. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS when you let the engineers do the job properly and don't tell them "its too expensive"
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  9. Im the same - I had a Mercedes CL55 AMG then I moved to a "15-minute city", I could suddenly get everything I needed in walking distance, the car sat outside until the breaks rusted on, then later the council put a sticker on it declaring it abandoned, it had not moved in 5 years. I now look back at the utterly unbelievable amount of money I willing handed over every month on cars and I think I must have been insane. I dont even think modern Ferraris and Lambos are nice, sure I still love some of the classics as art - but I have zero interest in cars, they steal SO MUCH of your money and if we just built better communities we would not need them...
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  10. I had a Mercedes CL600 and I had to learn to look WAY further ahead when overtaking. The problem was not getting past the lorry, it was not shooting so far past it that you could not pull in for the cars in front.
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  11. I LOVE COVERED REAR WHEELS XK120, Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic, 1952 Bentley Continental R-Type - and the KING of all - 1970 Citroën SM Possibly the most beautiful car ever created 1970 Citroën SM
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  12.  @BmacRDX  - What cos I don't want to drive 100-year-old technology that is dirty, noisy and polluting...? We used to have steam cars you know, why are you not driving a seam car - getting up an hour before you need to use it to stoke the boiler with coal...???
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  13.  @wonderstew  Certainly - I live in Burgas Bulgaria. You can look it up and there are walking tours of it on YouTube. I need to go to the city centre tomorrow for something specialist. It will be the first time I have had to travel more than 1000m from my apartment this year, which some people might think it terrible - but literally everything I need for 95% of my needs can be got within 1km of my apartment. I don't even have a refrigerator - I just go buy the food I want to eat for the next meal.
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  14. cos there is a maximum speed the cars can be allowed to crash at. Its the whole "why don't we have no rules racing it would be so much fun" NO it would end after about 3 races and 50 unalive drivers.
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  15. Well you can blame GM engines failing on EU regs - we don't buy that junk over here
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  16.  @WDLC1911  - Thank you - Im not very popular on this thread LOL...
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  17.  @williamgechtman9287  - The limiting factor for EV sales is battery availability. the EV makers all have long waiting lists for their cars. The ONLY reason anyone produces and ICE car is they cant produce enough EV's. NO manufacturer wants to make an ICE massively complicated, a warranty nightmare, they make them cos they cant produce enough EV's - thats the only reason. Its ALWAYS always about the most modern, fastest, smoothest transportation available. The ICE car will be like the horse in 15years time, a play thing for enthusiasts who are willing to put up with the inconvenience, the aggravation, the dirt, the smell, the cost - because they love them. My sister has a horse, she also has a Tesla Mod Y on order...
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  18. IF YOU DRIVE A 6.2L V8 SUV YOU DESERVE IT TO FAIL you are just a bad person
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  19. TESLA "the best part is no part" MAZDA "Hold my wankle"
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  20.  @das_fahrer  I was thinking that - I used to love his early stuff - he seems to have turned into a hack and I have unsubscribed. He just got very weird.
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  21.  @-JustHuman-  You have not heard of "audience capture" then...??? You can 100% have an engineering company for 40 years and then let fame go to your head.
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  22.  @tarstarkusz  On extra think cost saving wires - cos the one thing we know is thin wires never break. That why telephone companies had line fault finders...
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  23.  @-JustHuman-  OH how did you get access to his YouTube metrics - Id like to see those...
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  24. THERE IS A REASON WE HAVE HIGH STANDARDS IN THE EU its not just to upset Mr Trump
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  25. "Eventual consistency" look it up
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  26. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS when you let the engineers do the job properly and don't tell them "its too expensive"
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  27. I HAD THIS WITH A BMW 740 the expansion header thank cracked and on eBay they were like £140 At the BMW dealer, it was £24 + about £18 to fit it. DONT ALWAYS ASSUME AN ORIGINAL PART IS SUPER EXPENSIVE WITHOUT CHECKING
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  28. WHAT IVE ALWAYS WANTED is a car with thinner more easily breakable wires cos electrics never cause problems in modern cars...
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  29.  @JupiterxBlues  - I think we are talking from different but equally valid standpoints. I believe you are saying "we still need ICE cos not everyone can have an EV" am I right?? And is fo - YES I 100% agree with you. I'm just talking from an expensive performance or luxury car perspective. My last Merc did 13 to 16 MPG most of the time - 25 on the motorway, but I hardly did any motorway driving. That's over $1 per mile at current European prices for 100 octane, which it was supposed to run on. And that was for less than 400bhp. Just looked it up 360Bhp. Im just not interested in $280 a time to fill the tank, Im not interested in standing there at a gas station breathing in foul-smelling petrol fumes, and massive annual service bills, its all just so 20th century for me. At that level of motoring - either performance or luxury - I want silent clean electric power. I dont want my iMac plugged into a generator and I dont want my car running on petrol. If I was buying a utility car for $5k - totally different story. As it happens I don't need a car now, I live right in the city centre, just hire one for trips.
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  30.  @BeStill66  I already have a new hobby - Ill be getting an Aptera, a 3 wheeler solar-powered car that looks like a spaceship pod that will never need charging where I live [300 days of sunshine a year] and does 0 to 60 in 2.9 seconds. I don't want to drive 100-year-old technology that is dirty, noisy and polluting...? We used to have steam cars you know, why are you not driving a seam car - getting up an hour before you need to use it to stoke the boiler with coal...??? If you want to drive an antique - knock yourself out, I'm not telling you what to do...
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  31.  @rosskj9187  QUOTE "The U.S. grid loses about 5 percent of all the electricity generated through transmission and distribution" Source US Gov website What a wanker you are.
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  32.  @williamgechtman9287  - I think that is basically exactly what I said. ICE cars will become a thing for enthusiasts that like, appreciate and want them and are willing to put up with, even enjoy the downsides. ICE cars will never go away and i would be against any legislation that banned them for enthusiasts. And BTW - big misconception - Lithium mining is just about the most environmentally friendly mining as lithium is water-soluble, they pump hot water into boreholes and suck it back up and then electrolysis the lithium out of it. The used car batteries currently get used in grid storage systems, if they lose 30% of their charge capacity that's an issue for the car driver but not for grid storage companies. HOWEVER, the new Tesla 4680 cells have a life span of 1 million miles. Entire recycling industries are already set up WAITING for the influx of used batteries, its anticipated to be a hugely profitable industry - the problem is there are no unwanted 2nd hand batteries yet - trust me NO ONE is throwing lithium in a landfill - its a valuable metal. Cobalt is the element everyone freaks out about cos its basically only available in terrible places in the world where they use children to mine it - but the majority of batteries now contain either NO cobalt or trace amounts. You only need cobalt for high power things like Mod S Plaid, for your daily driver you can use iron instead of cobalt. Let me be clear- im NOT anti people having a hobby, if you want to drive and MGB or a E type or a R-34 or a Charger I fully understand and totally support that - Id quite like to own and drive one of them. But for day to day use I want an electric car. I love the styling of the old bakelite 1920's telephones - but I want an iPhone for day to day usage... What I most like about the electric cars is the form factor of the power train means that we can now have AMAZING looking cars again - Check out the Nobe 3 wheeler, the Aptera 3 wheeler - they are AMAZING... Yes - I want a 3 wheeler - why? cos its quirky
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  33. EXACTLY
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  34. 50/50 is only 50/50 provided velocity does not change.
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  35. His videos trigger my ADHD and make me mannic
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  36. I FOR ONE cant believe that Elon Musk lied...
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  37. WHAT IVE ALWAYS WANTED is a car with thinner more easily breakable wires cos electrics never cause problems in modern cars...
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  38. I HAVE NO INTEREST IN INTERNAL COMBUSTION engines any longer - its the chirping of a dial-up modem in the fibreoptic world - its history... I gave away a CL55 merc a year ago, Id not used it for 3 years and it was sat outside slowly rotting, better to give it to someone who cares, Ive lost interest in noisy, oily, polluting, unreliable, shaky, expensive 20th-century technology. Ill go to the classic car shows to see history - I dont want to DRIVE history.
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  39. OH MY GOD as a Mercedes CL600 owner I'm looking at $3116 for 3 years and thinking WOW - TESLAS ARE UNBELIEVABLY CHEAP TO RUN If my battery goes flat the car has to go to Mercedes to be reprogramed and that costs €800 and the battery is always going flat on these damn things EDIT - 5-60 time 4.4 seconds - so yeah the Tesla is FAST
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  40. 186mph IS MY FASTEST I was absolutely scared to death - This was on German Autobarn in an unrestricted CL55 AMG
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  41. CONGRATULATIONS...!!!
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