I actually traded my Tesla in over one of Tesla’s shitty software updates (around Christmas of 2020) where they made basically everything the driver looks at smaller and worse, just so they could make the silly picture of the car driving bigger.

I did a fair number of highway miles in my 1987 MR2.  The worst thing about it was that my car didn’t have cruise control.  Otherwise, I don’t remember it being any worse than any other Honda or Toyota product from that time period, and there were still plenty of them running around at the time (early 2000s).

I’d imagine they’ve improved it now.  At the time, (mid 2019), their online portal was only able to handle the entire process if you were buying the car outright, in cash.  If you were financing, you had to do the stupid document relay, which I did, and I don’t understand how anyone could go through that and somehow…

I did not finance through Tesla, but I used the lender they suggested. At the time, you could only finance through Tesla on the Model S (and maybe X?). The Model 3 I was buying wasn’t eligible, for whatever reason.

And, yes, I assume that the use of a third party lender is what made it such a frustrating experience,…

It varies by state, and probably by lender and who at Tesla you have the misfortune of dealing with. In my case, it was not “crazy easy” to do all the paperwork. The Tesla lady kept sending me terse and cryptic emails asking for something, which I’d then have to ask the lender for. The lender would then send me a…

They shipped a Model Y that made it home with only a couple of parts missing last Wednesday. Does that count?

Ugh...

I feel like the Rogue has really supplanted the Altima as the go-to vehicle for individuals of unfathomably low quality.

If Toyota had done this with the Supra, instead of phoning it in to BMW, I would have bought one instead of a Camaro.

I kinda like that.  I’m not sure I’d have done it in my Mustang, but it definitely looks cooler than the stock start button.

I like how they call anyone who just doesn’t want them clogging up the roads in their town “Antifa,” as if being opposed to traffic jams is some sort of radical left conspiracy.

Yeah, but it doesn’t sound like he wants a project car. He wants to drive this thing to the boondocks so he can go take selfies with his beard and all the crap he bought at REI.

Past Tesla owner here. This made me pretty angry at first, given that the charging related accessories are so frequently out of stock on Tesla’s accessories store, but the more I think about it, maybe it’s not so bad*.

For what it’s worth, BMW actually specifies that 1L of oil consumption per 1500 miles is within the range they consider normal.  Edit:  My point being that this may not be that far outside of Hyundai’s intended level of consumption.

Back when the Toyota sports cars that everyone wants to see come back were in production, they weren’t on shared platforms.

It won’t be a popular opinion, but... air cooled Porsche 911. I think it was an ‘86 or ‘87 Targa.

Because when they offer a manual, only like 3% of customers actually buy it.

The lack of a manual is an issue with the Supra for sure, but the real problem with it is that it’s a phoned in private label BMW.

If he still has to make the payments, why not just go get it back and then sell it to Carmax/Carvana/Vroom, et cetera?

I would have said KLR650, but yeah, pretty much this.