Another variable is that big names or bigger names bring more sponsor money. Racing isn’t cheap and F1 is nowhere near semi-affordable.

I would not mind a 4WD with a low range Truck frame based minivan. Just make it with 2024 quality not 1984 quality.

It was simply Musk getting mad at someone for pushing back on what he was asking for and punishing the entire team as part of his tantrum.

There’ no fucking way I would go back to a company that fired me on the whims of a child. This is the kind of business strategy you get from a guy whose reaction to opposition is ‘Go fuck yourself’, or as he put stupidly put it, ‘G. F. Y.’

I do not disagree with you in the slightest (also own an EV...2 actually). However, we absolutely must be cognizant that a very large population in the US currently rents, so being able to install or have access to a home L2 charger is not feasible. Until we see both higher saturation of public fast charging and…

Assuming there’s anything left of civilization in 50 years, I really wish I could see what’s written about this period in the history books. And I really, really hope we call it the Glass Onion era. An era of rich idiots who seem smart until you scratch the surface and discover that they are all just corrupt and dumb…

Got my fingers shut in the door of a late 60's Impala. Due to small kid fingers and panel gaps of the era, I was trapped in the weather stripping but physically unharmed. Gave mom and I a scare though.

Remember when you could get a Legacy GT Wagon with a 5-Speed? Those were they days.

“The report caught the attention of the Orange County Auto Theft Task Force, which traced the vehicle to Rodgers’ home in Costa Mesa and had it under surveillance all morning.”

Exactly this. It’s basically “this can do everything for you, except when all of a sudden it can’t and you’re totally responsible for catching it right at the moment it conks out.  Hope you don’t kill anybody, because it’s totally YOUR fault if our software fails and you can’t save yourself from whatever the fuck just…

A crap situation all around, seeing as a guy died. Was he most likely not paying attention when he should’ve been? Yes. Is Autopilot pretty shit and in being so named, encourages Tesla owners to be overly reliant on it? Yes. Both things can be true.

When it came to Tesla or nothing for me, I chose nothing. Now I’m happily driving a non-Tesla EV.

The Deft Hand of Darkness?

Iirc (tried to read the book a couple times but never finished) Dune is even about deconstructing the White Savior Chosen One archetype - given that the Bene Gesserit have been manipulating things for generations in order to create the Muad’dib. Which kind of begs the question of what a Chosen One really even is.

Back in the late 70s/early 80s a lot of vehicle would start to knock on regular as they got up in miles. Frequently using midgrade would stop the knocking.

It ain’t 2016 anymore

The U.S. Postal Service still uses them in their Grumman LLVs.  Most of them at or over 30 years old.  

>builds vehicle that appeals solely to attention-starved narcissists

It’s the car they* didnt want you** to have.

Some Cybertruck owners say their fellow Cybertruckers are blowing things out of proportion, and one said it’s a good idea to not “...drive it in the rain, or get it wet.