He based his company in Silicon Valley. That’s how. Granted, the Model S is a nice-looking, competent car, but most of the other stuff he’s pulled would never have been received so positively if it were from a company based outside California.

This was supposed to be unveiled April 1st, but Tesla missed their deadline as usual...

Either way it’s ironic that the “Playoffs” format produced a result even “worse” than 2003. I like upsets though, so I’m actually pretty amused by this.

I was actually hoping Ryan would pull it off, just because I like unexpected results and underdogs.

I remember this almost happened in the Cup series too in 2015 IIRC. Ryan Newman was one of the drivers in the Final 4 at Homestead and hadn’t won a race that season.

You echo my sentiments exactly. Engines are literally THE reason I got into engineering. I already was born several decades (closer to a century) too late to get a chance to work with steam engines (which I find even more interesting than internal combustion engines), and now I’m starting my career right as everyone…

That would explain why he often can’t stay on beat in many of his songs...

Didn’t they give it a 10% range increase with the most recent refresh?

At least they didn’t call it a Camaro...

I hate EVs trying to pass themselves off as more interesting cars by inserting fake noises...but I might be tempted to buy this if it made speed-synced horse noises too.

I’ve often joked about carmakers going to “touchscreen pedals,” along with replacing the steering wheel with “gesture-based controls.” I’m starting to worry that many people don’t think that’s as absurd as I do...

Neither of the Porsche SUVs are called 911s, and the Lambo SUV isn’t a Diablo or a Countach. That comparison doesn’t really work.

Honestly, that drainable frunk is the most interesting thing about this. It’s actually a clever touch to an otherwise uninteresting vehicle.

Was that the same race where the other R8 lost its rear wing and had a massive crash on the back straight that took out a trackside camera?

To me the Model 3 looks like a severely inbred Model S that Elon Musk personally beat with the biggest stick he could find, concentrating specifically on the face. It’s far and away the ugliest “sports sedan” ever made, at least until BMW fully implements their apparently naked-mole-rat-inspired front ends on their…

To be fair, only the Model S looks good. The rest of Tesla’s lineup, no so much. The Model 3 is especially awful and looks like a severely inbred Model S that Elon repeatedly hit in the face with the largest ugly stick he could find. It seems even an EV “pioneer” couldn’t resist the apparently instinctual urge to make…

It looks worse than a Model S, just as ugly as the Model X, and several orders of magnitude better than the Model 3 and Y.

“The future of exhilaration” is a poser crossover? Unfortunately they might be right the way things are going...

It still rolls off the tongue easier than “Mustang Mach E"

I agree, E.Mach is better. Not great, but definitely way less laughable than the current name. They had a better name right in front of them since it’s literally the name of the guy the Mach Number is named after!