Electric Conversion - Would You?

MaserMike

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Not my cup of tea, it’s like ripping out the soul and character of some classic cars….

16mins into the video, this chap is going to be converting 4x Testarossa’s!…

 

MaserMike

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Definitely a no from me too, looks like they use reconditioned Tesla electric drives and different battery packs from other cars etc. On another video for a Ferrari 308 electric conversion, cost estimate is up to £75k! Crazy money, considering that is more than the cost of a classic 308….
 

midlifecrisis

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Can the SportMaserati muftis issue a Fatwah, that anybody doing this to a post 2000 Maserati be sent to Coventry or worse Milton Keynes
 

Wack61

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now , no , if the future was a choice of an electric self driving eurobox or something exotic looking with performance to match but electric , yes.

Not that I'll be interested by the time it comes to it though
 

Oneball

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I’d really like to know who commissioned these monstrosities and ask why. I get things like a Land Rover as the engine is unimportant but these cars are different.

It’s like getting a Miro sculpture, taking a photo of it, putting the photo on the wall and burning the original.
 

Wack61

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I’d really like to know who commissioned these monstrosities and ask why. I get things like a Land Rover as the engine is unimportant but these cars are different.

It’s like getting a Miro sculpture, taking a photo of it, putting the photo on the wall and burning the original.
There's likely to come a point where if it's not electric it's in a museum , not in my lifetime but possibly in my kids lifetime

If the choice is an electric testarossa with V8 speakers on the outside or looking at it behind a rope in a museum I'd go with the conversion and put the engine behind the rope
 

Oneball

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There's likely to come a point where if it's not electric it's in a museum , not in my lifetime but possibly in my kids lifetime

If the choice is an electric testarossa with V8 speakers on the outside or looking at it behind a rope in a museum I'd go with the conversion and put the engine behind the rope

That maybe be the case, although I think we’ll be using ethanol. But we aren’t they’re yet and that’s why I’d like to ask someone why. I’d put money on some idiot saying “ULEZ” despite buying a £120k car and spending £50k converting it.
 

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There's likely to come a point where if it's not electric it's in a museum , not in my lifetime but possibly in my kids lifetime

If the choice is an electric testarossa with V8 speakers on the outside or looking at it behind a rope in a museum I'd go with the conversion and put the engine behind the rope
You think? I think electric is a definite stop gap, they don't appear to be very recyclable either.
 

Wack61

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You think? I think electric is a definite stop gap, they don't appear to be very recyclable either.

Manufacturers have been strong armed into the electric car by legislation , look how long Tesla was the only performance choice , it's only recently the big boys have joined in

If the ICE is dead by 2030 nobody will be developing new engines between now and then , they already share engines , they can't afford to develop new engines individually because of the ever moving emissions goal posts.

If there is to be a much cleaner piston engine they'd need to be working on it now
 

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I’d rather stroke my anal beard.

Certain cars with dull engines but cool, quirky design… yes. But for cars where not only the engine but the weight distribution and thus handling are what it’s all about… no. It’s the worst kind of showing off…
IF the conversions offered enough range
IF the conversions offered the ability to use the performance and not clobber the range
IF the conversions handled in a similar manner…
But they invariably don’t.


As I say for some cars they make sense. For me a W123 Estate with EV potential makes sense. All engines bar the straight six are a bit tepid. Perhaps a Citroen DS, for similar reasons. All sorts of retro futuristic JDM stuff from the 80s with miserable four cylinder engines.

I can understand why Ferraris and Porsches garner it - for a fair few it’s all about image and badge, the way it drives and handles is an irrelevance. Now without an ICE they can be doubly smug at dinner parties and impress the babysitter.
But then I saw an EV Alfasud a while ago, which could do only 60 miles between charges, with all the weight in the nose. What was the point?
 
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Nayf

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Manufacturers have been strong armed into the electric car by legislation , look how long Tesla was the only performance choice , it's only recently the big boys have joined in

If the ICE is dead by 2030 nobody will be developing new engines between now and then , they already share engines , they can't afford to develop new engines individually because of the ever moving emissions goal posts.

If there is to be a much cleaner piston engine they'd need to be working on it now

Some engine development teams have been disbanded already.
 

Wattie

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There's likely to come a point where if it's not electric it's in a museum , not in my lifetime but possibly in my kids lifetime

If the choice is an electric testarossa with V8 speakers on the outside or looking at it behind a rope in a museum I'd go with the conversion and put the engine behind the rope
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