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> NOW - that all being said, I'm not going to make any judgment about this guy and his work at Tesla and what this means about that. There is far too much that goes into the production of a car to make any real judgment call about things to come -- Astons could have been beautifully engineered and then ruined with bad supplier decisions, that were outside this guy's control. Etc. etc. One encouraging thing: with the…
>Lotus, who hasn't made a reliable car... ever? The US-spec Elise/Exiges were powered by a fairly mundane Toyota engine. Body panel costs aside, it's a cheap, reliable, unpractical, and great vehicle.
I've never doubted that the Toyota engine is reliable. If Lotus made a car with reliable electronics, that strikes me as revolutionary. :)