As a competitive Pokemon fan, this gen EASILY has been the best for the battling world of Pokemon since Black and White.

i think it’s worth considering that a large number of these legendaries cannot be transferred to modern pokemon games if you don’t have Pokemon Bank installed on a 3DS, after nintendo discontinued support for the console.

Old man yelling at cloud moment here, I realize, but I think I stopped caring about legendaries when gen 3 came out. Some were neat, but there were too many (imo) in that gen, and a lot of them did not feel ‘legendary’ to me (and ya’ll can roast me, the Regis are the lamest, ugliest legendaries in the first 3 gens).…

Uhh huuuuh. Sure bud. Sounds genuine...

Hertz is also scaling back on Teslas for the same reason.

A late model car is not an investment vehicle, its value doesn’t go up and down and up and down.

cant unsee that  image in my head

That’s kind of the whole issue. If MS doesn’t have a monopoly and the acquisition won’t give them one, then regulators don’t care. That’s why they approved the deal. There’s simply no legal case to be made against the merger. “Big mergers are bad mmkay” isn’t a legal case but apparently the FTC wants it to be.

Reuters’ story on the situation says the FTC lawyer Imad Abyad argued in front of a three-judge appeals court panel in California on Wednesday, December 6, that original attempts to block the deal were held to “too high a standard” by requiring the government agency to prove the deal was anti-competitive.

An EV battery replacement is also a lot simpler and quicker than an engine rebuild. Doesn’t mean it’s cheaper.

Ahh yes Tesla, the bastion of truthfulness. 

It’s Tesla’s problem if the high insurance payments dissuade people from buying their hard-to-repair car.

Economy of scale definitely helped the F150 issue. We’ll see how many Cybertrucks are produced. The more they make, the cheaper body work will be.

Luckily it appears to be damaged right when it rolls out of the factory and all of the fingerprints and smudges will cover up all the dings. I’ve seen a few video “reviews” (in quotes because they appear to just be influencers servicing Musk) this week and the panels are warbly AF.

I think part of the problem is that more or less no shops have any idea how to fix/repair stainless steel. Outside of the DeLorean it hasn’t been used in any vehicles, that I know of.

Well, the way Tesla seems to operate, it seems like most any crash will total the vehicle anyway, thanks to insane repair/certification costs and glacial repair times....

Counterpoint: brodozers are already commuter queens, and the popularity of low-profile knobbies shows that owners have finally accepted that.

Ah, but the likelihood of the installed Tesla truck base coming anywhere near Ford's in the near/mid-term is pretty slim.  Getting repair places to see the value and gain return on their investment will be much more difficult, I would guess.

Not going to appeal to the Bro’s. These will always be a pavement princess.

The other problem is finding repair shops that will repair to sub-micron tolerances.