It is obviously hard to tell without seeing the specific car in question, but badly made body repairs can often be found by looking for paint irregularities, although you would require a special tool that measures paint thickness(either with ultrasound or by checking magnetic properties). Someone who does PPI…

Tesla is probably raising money because they are short on actually usable cash. I don’t think I have ever seen Tesla have $2bn cash in hand. Whenever they needed money in the past, they either sold stocks or collected deposits on a new car. The money might be for purchases, but it won’t be enough to buy a whole OEM,…

And yet it is not great enough to have its own rule changes to stop it, it is even expected to benefit from the new aero rules.

We need a USB-C for cars

Unless one of the cars that it is absolutely hopeless against in Europe also shows up.

VW doesn’t need Tesla anymore, the entire group is developing EV tech at a high rate, and they will inevitably out-develop Tesla at some point just by having a €12bn R&D budget.

Currently, Tesla is not capable of any hostile takeover. They have nowhere near the cash in hand to buy even Mazda, so if they wanted to attempt a takeover, they would need to turn a signifiant amount of stock into cash, without driving up the target’s stock price or hurting their own, and without getting into trouble…

A range extender car would be a series hybrid, a parallel hybrid has both motors mechanically connected to the wheels.

That car would probably look like a Race Touareg would have looked in a 90s video game.

I’m not even sure how a hybrid would make sense in cross-country rallies. There is no refueling under racing conditions, so fuel consumption has little strategic relevance, and the hybrid system would likely take up more space and weight than the fuel it saves, plus the added cooling requirement. The only benefit I…

With the automated quality control and high-level training modern factories have, the day of the week the car is build on does not have influence on the car’s reliability.

One that I didn’t know I needed until I used it on a car is a mirror, ideally with a telescopic handle. Makes it much easier to check a lot of things that would otherwise require an endoscope or disassembly.

I’d think that reckless drivers are probably more likely to be reckless when it comes to insurance(and probably maintenance)

GTA V already had ridiculous politicians and random racist violence, although as side notes away from the story, plus government corruption in the story, and didn’t GTA IV have a corrupt politician somewhere in the story? Trump’s America wouldn’t have been a game changer for GTA.

I would car more if there was actual scruitineering before the run. Some cars run on obviously different tires than they are sold on, and at least one Lamborghini had different bodywork to the production model.

Considering that the A320 successor is scheduled to launch around 2030, I don’t see much time left for the 737. Unless Boeing is giving out massive discounts, the 320neo is already superior for mixed-fleet operators; partly due to the new requirements. If Boeing doesn’t start developing the new plane right f___ing…

Maybe he is watching Fox

The problem with the clean sheet was that Boeing was caught napping by the A320neo, which could be flown by exisiting A320 pilots and offered 15% better fuel efficiency. Had Boeing been developing either the Max or a new plane, they would have had a competitor launching within a reasonable timeframe, but as they had…

The market could be become a bit cuban, especially if EV prices don’t go down massively, and the charging network isn’t expanded sufficiently, which is almost guaranteed with the small investment.

Back then we also had privateers, and the privateers won races. A Porsche RSR was €350k. Nobody talked about BoP. Then someone decided we needed deregulation to increase brand diversity, and now the privateers are long gone, manufacturers showed up and left again, cars are €900K, and I am also missing a lot of the…