They are OK , im just annoyed thar the government pushes them on the population.

I think it’s safe to say I was born into the wrong era of cars

Probably, I don’t mind this as an alternative. But I hate them as a mandated replacement pushed by politicians that don’t know what they’re talking about and just want to pretend they care about the environment.

I loved the blatant political incorrect language in this video, and totally agree with what you are saying. Even here in Australia, they are pushing the electric car agenda, but the infrastructure isn't the best for long drives yet. I'll keep my petrol car for now, and have a Hybrid Toyota for my wife, mainly for fuel savings. Great Video. 👍

When these car companies try and force everyone into electric they're in for a very rude awakening. Their sales will be dismal and the majority of people will reject them and unless govt hands them out most people can't afford them anyways.

I think the scary thing about all this is... how much will gasoline cost as we inch closer to this transition to electric? And even more to consider.. how much are they going to charge you to charge your electric car once gasoline is phased out?

I enjoy his videos, he's honest and straight to the point. He cares about us car ppl and our hobbies

This is very reasonable question. I actually was thinking the same for me. If they go too mass and the gasoline cars disappear, I will definitely lose the interest in cars.

I approve that microwave oven analogy

They're annoying and the people that drive them are more annoying.

Craig, I can’t believe you don’t have a shirt in the merch store that says “2JZ engine No Sh!t” 🤣

Provided there’s still a hobby for us to even get into

New rules and regulations from State/Fed Govt will eventually destroy the Car Hobby.

Some cities are already overloading their power grids because of the rapid influx of electric cars. The infrastructure cannot handle it.

I’d say yes cause all you can do is customize the outside

We love you Craig. Please never change

The electric car movement will fail for many reasons so I welcome them to push it as hard and as fast as possible

EV’s will be the beginning of the end of car enthusiast.

I laughted way too hard at that Tesla intro 🤣🤣

I like what Porsche is doing with syn fuel research and koenigsegg did with the free valve motor. I don’t think gas is entirely dead. But it will take some very clever minds. I don’t want electric. I personally like the smell of exhaust fumes and gasoline, not so much axle oil. That stuff stinks! I love race cars and motor sports in general. I’ve finally got money to build a kind of fast fun great handling car and I’m going to do it!! Should be around 450/500 wheel hp after motor is built. Weighs around 3300 lbs and has 51/49 weight balance. Should do 0-60 in low 4’s high 3 second range and handle like it’s on rails! Do the quarter in around high 11’s low 12’s but it’s not meant for drag or dig races. She’s meant to handle and out run other cars! Not just a one truck pony!

If I wanted to buy a power wheel I would go to Walmart 😅😅

Thank you so so so much Craig sir for all the memories and love and knowledge you have given to me and all the true fast and the furious lovers around the world and no matter what anyone says The Fast and The furious will always be my favorite . God Bless you Craig

Thank you!!! I've been saying for years SUVs are rediculious. Not needed for most people. When I was a kid we either had minivans or sedans.

Imagine the next Fast/Furious film with all EV's, the sound crew won't even have a job.

Not only would I look for a vehicle that can run longer than my bladder capacity time, I will be looking for a refill/recharge time less than my bladder empty time. I don't see EV's meeting that second requirement anytime soon. Great content, I appreciate your channel.

EVs will kill WRC, and most motorports in general. In Rally, you have a lot of crashes, and sometimes fires. How would you react to a lithium fire, which have already ignited half of the course on fire?

I'll keep driving gas powered vehicles till gas is unobtainable.

For most people, a large part of modding cars and the joy of doing so, comes from extracting as much power as you can from the internal combustion engine, and the vast ways you could do so. Sure you have many many other mods that you can still do on electric cars: suspension, body, steering, brakes & tyres, aero, the dreaded electrical (no shit), and the rather useless aesthetic mods. But the meat and potatoes of it really just comes down to the drivetrain, engine tranny and driveshaft components like diffs. Electric cars just lack all of that & you can’t mod an electric motor. No induction, no life (as in vibrations, sounds, shifting, etc), no nitrous, no modding motors and their components, no manual transmissions, etc. I wholeheartedly believe that electric cars are normie crap, I 100% believe you can’t be a true car guy if you only focus on electric cars. The progress to getting you to fast 0-60s, huge horsepower, etc, is more important than the actual results. That’s why many of us bitch so much about the bought vs built debate. To many of us, the hard work that goes into to modding cars to achieve whatever you want, is more important and worthwhile than the final product. Electric cars are lifeless & remove the vast majority and funnest parts of modding cars. I wouldn’t trade their performance capability over their modding capability any day for any reason. Anyone can buy a car with performance, be it combustion or electric, as a car guy, I believe the heart of it comes from fixing and building your own car. Anyone who would happily trade that for easy power (again, be it combustion or electric) isn’t a real car person & is just showing off and being a poser. And don’t get pedantic about “oh so now we can’t buy Ferraris and Porsches and Lamborghinis and such because that means we’re not real car guys???” That’s not what I mean and y’all know it. It’s a whole different thing when a mechanic works up to be able to finally buy his dream Ferrari than the snob who has never held a wrench in his hand buying a McLaren :| I love seeing shitheads showing off their Teslas at car meets, many of them don’t know smack about cars beyond 0-60s and horsepower, torque? What is that? Then you talk to them and their like “yea I put this body kit and wheels and brakes on” etc and you’re like “you yourself or you sent it to a mechanic or shop to do it for you,” then they get all quiet and get mad at you and talk crap about your car. And idk, I’ve never seen a Tesla boi be even close to as good a driver as the average car guy, and even then 😂 I guess you don’t have to worry too much about driving skill when the car can almost drive itself & you have like 100 different systems aiding you in driving. I love passing these blacked out Tesla bois on curves in a Corolla 😂 it’s like I’m just driving along and if I pass these Tesla bois they get so butt hurt and hit it and have to just show off their whinny motors and be the fastest on a straight away, until a corner comes up and you see them slam the brakes and my humble Corolla (with all trac control and VSC turned off) passes them on the curve insanely fast, and then I see them on the rear view mirror coming out the curve hitting it again to catch up and pass me again until the next curve comes up. Sure I’m not going to deny that people with combustion cars don’t do this, oh hell yes they do, but there’s just something about the blacked out Tesla bois with their shop modded body kits that makes them so mad about the fact that someone driving a Corolla is a better driver than them 😂

This depresses me. Honestly an electric car with no sound, no manual transmission, no gears is just the most boring thing in the world to drive. It's fine for like busses and garbage trucks and stuff like that, but cars directed towards enthusiasts it's horrible.

You forgot to mention the inevitable upcoming lithium supply shortages.

Um ACKTCHUALLY, I'm offended when you talk about Teslas! :) You're right. It's basically an appliance. EV will never replace a perfect heel-toe downshift and hitting the apex. I have a MYP, and I will have a similar smile driving another 90 Celica GT-S again. ...but someone in my neighborhood has a Roush Mustang that wakes up the entire neighborhood every morning. I could live without that.

nobody drives in new york. there's too much traffic

Gotta laugh at Dodge's latest commercial touting their "powerful performance cars" as they kill them off for EV crap.

Yes. Modifications will be paint and body kits wheels and suspension.

The fact that an electric car having to sit and wait 10-30+ mins to charge while it takes 10-30 seconds to pump fuel into a gas power car is just the first of many reasons why I’m 100% not in favour of these things. Plus how the companies can just “update” the car to possibly make it worst and having to get a new one? Hell nah to that BS.

Great topic. I will be all for it. Here in South Africa, they cannot make enough power for our houses. Just to keep my beers cold is traumatic. Can't see it happening here in the next 100 years. Great video. 👍

I love how blunt he is towards the things he doesnt agree with😂😂👏👏 keep on being you man

Your Special Olympics comment is the best take on electric cars I've heard!!!

As long as you are an electrical engineer and a millionaire, it won't affect you at all!

When some new form of innovation comes along that makes modern cars a relic like the steam engine, and they become more affordable, I'm sure there will still be enthusiasm in the scene.

EVs are starting to destroy carculture already. Its like the ultimate NPC behaviour to be into EVs.

Well if you do your research on electric power vehicles they were out first before internal combustion engines but internal combustion engines became more popular because they were more practical at the time

1:47 - GEN-X - Same with us... Maybe we'd have said "GaaaAAAAYYYYYY!" instead, but the sentiment was equally thick skinned.

Still sneaking around with my straightpiped 66 390 t bird on antique plates...

The ad before this video “Mercedes Benz is going electric” SKIP 💀

I 100% believe the Mustang Mach-E was specifically named to induce rage. Because even when people complain, their still talking about your car. And the more people that talk about the car, the more people hear about the car. And that's free advertising

I was confused too when I seen that SUV Mustang Pulling up next to me at the light

My issue with EV's is the restrictions they put on the consumer. You can't fix them unless you're qualified. Software restrictions. Price of battery, and motor replacements. Since you can't fix them, and batteries have a lifetime which means it'll be super expensive to keep them on the road. So now you have to buy a new car every 10-15 years or just some shitty car sharing program run by some corporation. Hell I won't be surprised if todays Gas Stations turn into these car sharing, charge parking areas. There'll still be Model T's chugging along while a 2040 Toyota went to a recyclying facility in 2065.

Good video man

I had a good laugh thank you Craig 😂😂😂😉😉😉This video represents my thoughts and those of other car enthusiasts. (sorry for the translation I don't speak English)

This is the video that should be played at a government meeting.. all over the world.. everyone should see this..

That electric Charger looks like a '68 that got promoted at work and couldn't make it to the gym anymore.

Craig, love your reality check on the California energy crisis. It's what everyone's been saying for years! California's ideas are so good, they must be mandatory! When are you going to run for governor?

It will kill the hobby. There is too much control left to the manufacturers and government in anything newer than 2000 anyway. If you have a service where they can unlock your doors or crash sensing etc they can take control of your car. How can you do the stupid stuff we do in cars when they can shut you down. Besides older cars have a style. New cars do look like appliances.

Visual mods will obviously stay, as will suspension/brakes etc. I'm sure there will be certain mods available for electric cars... Like you said, ECUs didn't kill tuning when they became popular, in reality they actually made it really easy. Electric cars are pretty quick, I think a market will end up existing for enthusiasts, but many will obviously prefer ICE instead.

Thanks Pops

Aside from an EV's lack of soul, the biggest problem is infrastructure. No one is equipped to handle it. Say you work in an office building and use a large lot or parking garage during the day. Those kind of places will need major upgrades. Or you live in a condo complex. Every parking spot will need a charger and will need to be connected to the tenant/owners electric bill. Or worse, you live in a large apartment building without off street parking. How are you going to charge your car? Parking meters will have to be replaced with metered charging stations. It almost seems impossible if you think about what really has to happen for the all electric future our overlords have chosen for us peons.

there will always be the body mods, everything else is going to be tesla swaps which will be "cool" for all of a year or two then get as boring as a Ls swap. The few who have the electrical engineering knowledge will build their own stuff but that will be a few folks. While climate change is a real thing and is affecting us - there is literally no way to actually slow it down or stop it and thus the governments would rather blame the populace for the issue and then restrict them, when the issues are industrial/government/military/agriculture - all generally exempt from proposed climate actions.

Gonna run and enjoy my uncomputerized bored out Chev 7.4 until they say I can’t! But what happens to value on the long run? Is it worth starting a resto these days? I went through the resto from hell recently and would like your input on the future value of blowing $ at your ride..

Craig: "why do people even drive suvs" Me: ............because I'm fat and tall 😔

16.15.and how long do the battery's last when you charge them from half empty.?.

I hope that we can get an administration that will put an end to this "all electric by date" bullshit

I still think the car isnt the issue... its the fuel thats the issue. i would spend all that investments and energy into making a bio fuel rather than making everyone drive electric cars

I saw a news story a while back about this whole electric car and charging situation that as of right now, the resources needed To provide electric cars and charging stations etc. The resources we would need To make it happens we dont have enough for that. All the mines and places where are knlwm To have resources needed, that amount is not enough To make it happen at the moment.

Love the channel!!!! I think as a small niche and limited series electric vehicles can prevail but the materials needed to produce them in mass quantity is not feasible and bad for the environment when making these batteries. We just cant make that many batteries and gasoline is safer for the environment than electric. And the fuel to get these is fuel consumption in its self 😂 or what i read in articles but, love the channel and cars Craig Lieberman!!!! Happy Tuesday or dam what day is it lol 😭

If governments around the world really wanted to switch for the purpose of the environment , then … why not make Fossil-free biodiesel a cheaper fuel for existing cars, which works on almost all modern diesel cars. Up to 90% less CO2, and no energy is required to manufacture new cars nor batteries… and no need to take a loan for buying a new car, upgrading your home outlet etc.

Can see a lot of people selling kits to convert older classics to electric

Can't stand them, I'll always be a petrol head.

I would get one as a A-B /shopping hauler but really going to miss the noise and the feeling

I dig this dude's laugh every time he points out some ridiculous issue about the whole electric car thing,especially what the aftermarket scene could look like with electric cars. After watching this, Im glad Im 59, have an 86 Olds 442 with a vintage 68 Olds 350, an 05 Impala SS SC 3.8L with some usual bolt on stuff and a clean old 96 standard cab 2WD Chevy truck with the classic vortec 350. Im gonna try to make these the last vehicles I own. The 2020s are drag.

Luckily I got into one of my dream cars while the market on them was at its lowest, bc as of right now, I'd be hopelessly priced out of it. One down, one to go.

The mini n mid size SUV is the modern day station wagon .. unless it's a full size then it kinda has a purpose

Nailed it couldn't agree more 👍

I already have a 40k mile supra 6 speed turbo. Now to get that GTR. 2015+

I doubt they'll stick. Nickel and cobalt mining is pretty gross. It just pushes emissions up the value stream.

I think the one thing your conclusion is missing is that before you grab these cars, figure out how to enjoy them off the road. They will probably become the horse, hot air balloon and sailboat of the future - things people enjoy off the mainstream and not as transportation. We'll be towing them to Thunderhill behind an electric-ish something or other. So if you're looking to buy an FD or Viper expecting to be one of the few people driving internal combustion in a sea of trolleybuses, I think that's a mistake. One practical reason I can see for that not being allowed is that even current electric cars have sufficient automation to mandate fully auto-piloted highways where we'll be able to commute at 200mph safely bumper to bumper. But if you introduce even one manually driven car into that equation, it won't work.

Not one electric car picture I saw in this video looked appealing. Why do they ha e to make them ugly?

Tesla Racing Channel Yes electric drag races are boring because they amount to a tire test, and the only possible gains are from weight savings, but still, to see someone go through the effort of stripping down Teslas for racing is pretty neat imo.

Most of them look like uninspired amorphous blob. Granted its a fast amorphous blob. But I like to travel too much for it to be feasible for me currently.

Seeing how most states want to have cars top speeds limited by GPS

For the infrastructure same applies to the european market. Government wants people to switch to EVs despite the fact energy grid can't handle such load. Moreover, some countries produce power mainly from coal (such as Poland, where is no [hated by greens] nuclear energy and most of the power comes from coal) so EVs aren't that green anyway.

I think they will start to make "fun" electric cars. Tesla probably won't because in reality, they're a Software company. Once some of the more traditional makers really get stuck in, there will be more enthusiast cars but they will still lack that analogue mechanical sound and feel. For that, we will have our older enthusiast cars. That's where the aftermarket comes in. Supporting these cars. People will still want to enjoy V8 Muscle Cars, JDM Turbo cars and euro classics. They will just feel even more special amongst the sea of electric SUVs. The fact that owners of these classic cars aren't expanding their carbon footprint buying new cars and sending old cars to the crusher, means they are doing their bit for the environment too!

An electric car is just not what I personally want so no matter how "good" they get I will never buy one

I'm still Gathering tools and car parts, from building the ultimate sleeper which would be a 2000 Suzuki Swift four-door sedan with a Suzuki 2.3 Arrow Engine in a manual gearbox and limited slip differential out of a Suzuki GTI, to turning my 1992 Mazda MX3 GS into a compact v8-powered all-wheel-drive sports car. I even figured some crazy or ideas of building a 60 Mi per gallon 94 Mazda Protege using the engine from a Ford Festiva which is basically a Mazda 121 and a gearbox out of a Ford Contour 2.0. I was inspired by all these Apocalypse movies and thought of an idea fitting a 3-cylinder Geo Metro engine into a 4 x 4 Geo Tracker. The idea would be to have just what you need, if gas ever got up to 20 bucks a gallon, a three-cylinder four-by-four would be very useful verses that wonderful V6 with all its power you have in your garage right now. Just getting the finances to build this too, the last thing I'd want is the government getting in the way. Did you guys know I'm planning on moving to Florida or some other smog-free state from here in California. Specifically because of smog inspection. All my cars run good but it is ridiculous that I get taxed every two years to go smog my car, in the hopes that it doesn't pass and I got a shell out a grand to fix whatever is wrong with it. In Nevada a catalytic converter might go for a hundred bucks, overhearing United States it goes for 400 same thing it just has a California seal engraved on it. Bunch of nonsense. It is and the same thing goes for these electric cars, if I ever buy one, it's literally going to be used as an appliance. My 1992 MX3 with its 1.8 L dual overhead cam k8v 6, sounds wonderful when it starts getting to about 4500 RPMs to 7000. And the car with its 2400 lb weight hold store, holds the road like it's glued to it. I bet there's many of us who have some crazy project car whether it's the ecomod a 50 mile per gallon car or build a 500 horsepower car. We don't need the government stepping in the way. That's why we don't have jetpacks or flying cars!

Don't let this video distract you from the fact that hector is going to be running three Honda civics with spoon engines, and on top of that he just went into Harry's and bought three t66 turbos with nos and a motec exhaust system

The only way for me to like electric cars is to think of them as really big RC cars.

EVs don't really please anyone You got like enthusiasts who prefer the sound of a ICE engine + know tuning is more reliable You got the regular american who still will depend on gas cars longer than the slated ban by 2050 in the US You got environmentalists who actually want trains to reclaim their prior dominance in the United States

if people added solar to the roofs it would help.

I reckon car culture and the modding scenes will move to places like Russia and South Africa after these absurd bans come into place. Maybe Australia could have a huge scene if the government doesn't cuck out and spread it's cheeks for the US and EU.

Not if you don't listen and just keep you ice

What about JDM hybrid cars?

EVS are (or can be) good cars. The main problem is how the dealership made them to tie you to them for virtually any maintenance. 8:04 there were in fact three competing powertrains in the 19th century steam, electric and gasoline with gasoline dominated the automotive industry as oil companies have tremendous influences over government policies. So electric isn’t new.

Yeah it’ll be the government that kills the hobby. In the UK they’re already trialing climate lockdowns. You’ll eventually have a carbon score here. It’s a matter of time. All the while if everyone buys an electric car we will be out of electricity sooo….it’s a lose lose lose lose lose. Stick to video games, Gran Turismo and Forza will be your racing hobby for the future 😅

pray Porsche comes through with their eco fuel if they do we gonna have to give em the royal treatment lol

We have the same issue, then look at the other problem is having EV's which can do what an ICE vehicle in terms of 4WD and ute/pick up etc. Also, it's not just once you get them how green are they before that especially down here in the southern hemisphere as we have to have them shipped as they are not manufactured here. Also, our country pays for its roads etc through a tax on fuel but with an EV I don't believe they pay any other form of tax for the maintenance and building of roads.

I love that sound XD

Electric cars are insanity. No better than fuel burning cars. Mining for battery material, all the plastics in ECs, disposal of toxic batteries. Craig mentioned power grid issues, yes, that’s everywhere. Waiting for cars to charge...... I live in Canada. Batteries don’t work well in the cold. There’s a video going around right now of a guy who couldn’t even charge his Tesla cause it was too cold. If you want an electric car, fine, but don’t force people to switch if they don’t want to.

As we know it, yes. It will be limited to cosmetic and suspension mods. The kind of person that embraces this won’t resemble most of the people who make up the culture today. Which the culture today pretty much pure trash as is.

Also For The New R36 GT-R With Nissan Is On The Way For The Next Gen Craig.

I regret selling my Evo3