I laughed so hard because even if it didn’t need to come out, I would have done the same thing. And who would think twice about turning a screw? You might have to break thread locker, or defeat a stake, but you could not have expected your result without intimate knowledge about that carb.

you say workbench, I see kitchen table.

That’s the thing. The shaft totally didn’t NEED to come out.

Man, if I thought the carb was so bad that I needed to pull the throttle shaft out of it, I would have just flipped the thing in the trash. I admire your determination. 

Was this the driver?

The car has been missing for that long, not necessarily at the bottom of that cliff.

Yeah, this is a weird one. Rust isn’t as huge out there, but moss/mold are. It’s weird to see all those grey sides that aren’t bright green with the stuff.

No way that thing has been there for 27 years.

It is like they looked at Elio and thought “People clearly want a small, interesting, inexpensive, efficient, three wheeled car. Lets make one!”

Unless it is a Morgan or a Campagna T-Rex. Those are pretty fun. Terrifying, but fun.

To be honest, this article is meaningless without anything to compare Tesla’s defect rates to.

I like Tesla and would definitely own one, but the company needs to admit that making cars is hard. It’s not like the latest phone that just needs to last a couple of years at the most; it’s making a multi-thousand-dollar machine that has to withstand rain, snow, sleet and shine for several years and hundreds of…

Yes and no. A factory that is constantly reworking the finished product after production is losing money.

The figure isn’t that useful without knowing how does it compare to the rest of the industry (and also how strict QA is, how granular and where in the pipeline line it is done).

I feel like Porsche and Mazda are in the same boat. They love driving and are true driver’s companies, but know that in order to make 2 door drivers cars, they have to sell a ton of crossovers.

A red Corvette with a body kit, gold wheels, and NACA ducts you say? Remember kids, things can always be worse.

Hasn’t been turned on for 20 years?