Tesla Board: Elon, we really need you to reign in the tweets. You’re getting yourself in trouble and it’s a bad look for the company.

I just bought one of those Monty Sports. Mine is a year older, cost me about $600 more, and needs a good bit of work. But it only has 83k miles on it, so should make a reliable daily when I get done with it. And a good winter vehicle beyond the year or so I need to DD it. 

The number of "former" staff in this send-off makes me feel ancient. Eat shit, the lot of you. 

Titles are often inaccurate. My mom’s very-obviously blue SUV is black according to the DMV. The green Corolla I just sold was blue to them.

I wouldn’t necessarily call the 3-row Santa Fe a mistake. My mom has one and it’s been a very good car for her. Pretty sure they sold well, and they were better than their Sorento cousin.

Yes, we do, IMO. Because taking someone to civil court is probably not something a 7-year-old orphan is ready/able to do. And civil litigators tend to take a huge portion of the payout if they win the case. Putting it in the penal code helps avoid re-traumatizing the family of the victim, and the DA’s office isn’t…

I doubt there's a ton of investment for this. They already have the Highlander, so it's not like they're creating a new model from scratch. Design a new front clip, new tail lights, and put nicer materials inside, and that's basically it. Then they can maybe lose the RX L, or consolidate the GX/LX into one model. 

I just had to replace the cam seals on my Montero Sport (I know, not exactly showroom new, but basic engine tech hasn’t changed much beyond direct injection since then). The original ones were made out of shitty rubber that turns into brittle plastic over time, causing major oil leaks. That motor couldn’t have been…

Having the backing of GM is a major difference. Even if they weren’t directly managing the brand/product launches, having that relationship so that you can reference the experience of the (at the time) biggest automaker in the world is hugely beneficial. They also weren’t really developing anything all that new,…

Because tunes/chips aren’t readily available for every car and you wouldn't risk voiding the warranty. 

A brand new Colorado ZR2 crew cab starts at just under $45k. Used ones with okay mileage can be had for the budget listed. These are supposed to be pretty solid offroad and surprisingly well-behaved on. 

What they want is an Outback, so long as they aren't too fussed about the "refined" part (CVT and all). 

In Lawrence's defense, the letter didn't come in sideshow form. Probably threw him off. 

It'd be interesting to see how they'd stop people from hacking these sorts of things, too. It's not like it's that hard to take the wires from the seat heater and hook up your own switches. And aftermarket remote starts and stereos already bypass a lot of built-in stuff to work properly. 

The only way I could see something like this working is if it somehow created cost savings by having the hardware features identical for every car. That’s the supposed reason why every car comes with just a few trims/packages instead of having a true custom order sheet like you used to get.

I’d really have no problem with some of this if it weren’t for 2 things:

When you're born rich the idea that a bank would deny you a loan for any crackpot scheme is just unthinkable. 

You could put your dick in a mousetrap, too, but I wouldn't recommend it. 

Register in a state that doesn’t have inspections, I guess. I’ve never once heard of the Wisconsin DMV checking to see that the registered VIN is even present on the car, let alone whether the model matches up perfectly. As long as the VIN and model match on your paperwork, you could put plates on a ham sandwich for…

Also don't like acknowledging we have a weight problem.