1st gear: Anyone who thinks Tesla’s valuation makes sense in the long term deserves whatever comes of it

I feel like the chip shortage being sorted and interest rates going up will set things right

If they ran this event as they ran all the ones before, and those had an acceptable level of fatalities, again it’s stupid IMO to assume negligence. Maybe something changed this year that made things more dangerous, but unless you have intimate knowledge of how this race has been managed it’s stupid and self serving…

Bro rally racing is dangerous

Jalop staff loves the political angle EVs allow them to push

I think the why is much simpler- it’s not something they can fix with a software update. The only way around it is hardware (seat sensor and/or a camera). Maybe they will fix it with Autopilot 2.0. The main thing though is Tesla has to be banned from calling this feature Autopilot.

Unless your Hyundai’s cruise control can steer, you wouldn’t get very far with this plan

I think they did improve NVH with the facelift. I’m seriously considering getting some Dynamat and having some of the glass laminated. The only thing I don’t think I can fix is the boominess of that huge rear torsion beam suspension. But I’ll take what I can get.

Toyota hybrid systems are reliable too though. They were pretty much the first and have been rock solid the whole time. Plus buying and keeping a car for 270K miles is not typical. I understand that matters to you but it def doesn’t to most people.

I have a ‘15 Limited which is in the supposedly best gen (since the 8AT programming neutered the V6). I don’t think it’s that big of a drop off. For starters if we look a little further down the bench racing sheet we see this is not much slower than the V6 versions. I don’t know about the 3rd gens but mine is loud. It…

As a RepubliQan, absolutely. You just can’t be on any committees.

I did as well... this is how you April Fools

This thing’s starting price is ominously close to a cheap 4K TV, which I have been using as an add on monitor at home and work for a few years now

I said elsewhere- when the numbers are all that’s left, we’ll realize how little they matter. But you can’t stop “progress”............

We’re finally seeing electrification truly democratize performance, such that modestly-priced, family-hauling Kias and Fords are going to be pulling off these feats, too.

Effectively “MSRP” on a Tesla is just whatever a hypothetical dealer would get charged to buy a Tesla (and then markup for a profit).

So “anyone that believe direct sales of car would only be at MSRP is a moron”, but the only direct sales operation currently running only sells at MSRP, and “thank god for that”

It’s worth repeating- anyone who thinks a factory direct only sales model will save us money is either stupid or crazy. Where’s the “haggle” button on the Tesla website? How often does Tesla run sales?

How do you figure? Where’s the “haggle” button on Tesla’s site?

Physical buttons are so key. I would need to see Rtings data on this... but $300 for all this sounds very reasonable.