If you asked the question, “Who is Nissan?” or “Who is Ford?”, you would get confused looks. Maybe some people would name the CEO, if they even knew who it was.

I don’t understand this current generation of car buyer. When did many buyers start believing that automobiles weren’t depreciating assets? Seems like current buyers are overspending on the purchase thinking they’ll sell the car in a few years for more than their remaining payment.

I am financial literate. My car got hit in late 2022 and I had to get another car; I had to pay MSRP + the F*G upcharge. They told me if I don’t get the car within two days of delivery, they have another customer waiting to take the car off me.  Then Hertz decided to dump their EVs into the market.

I really appreciate that first paragraph. I’ve been a Jalopnik fan for over 15 years, but the recent flood of Tesla/Musk-related posts has been pretty disappointing. While I love my Model 3, I’m not a fan of Musk. I do think there’s a way to critique him while still acknowledging that Teslas can be both incredible…

102k for that delivery experience is absolutely hilarious. Do they have anybody that works there that has not had a recent lobotomy? 

It’s not all a matter of financial literacy. There was a period of time in 2021-2022 when you walked into a car dealer and the first question you asked was ‘So.... what is the surcharge on this one?’. If you needed a car during that time you paid what you had to pay, which was $2k -$8k over MSRP. My mother’s car got…

This is like saying X number of people are losing money on their stock portfolio.

“far more than the industry standard of zero”

Tesla did it right with the Supercharger network, the plug had nothing to really do with it.  Other automakers are adopting it just to use the network.

Did they ever actually say that? The problem was never that Tesla had a monopoly, it’s that the competition was unreliable and using chunky hard to use connectors. Public charging has existed for longer than Tesla, Tesla just did it right with Supercharger and their plug style (now called NACS/J3400). So successfully…

Chris Harris is one of the few people that I might have actually held my nose and listened to a Rogan episode to hear speak in an informal setting. But knowing there is still a bunch of Tesla shilling going on by Rogan? Blech, hard pass.

“In the review, Clarkson commented on the poor range of the car, which lasted just 55 miles on a race track, and claimed that it took an eye-watering 16 hours to top the battery up once again.”

Coincidence or not: Chris Harris and one of his Top Gear co-hosts signed to produce a “Road Trip” series earlier in 2024.... I bet he’s just looking for some media spotlight ahead of their return... what better way to get attention than to start a feud with Clarkson, since they appear to be about to rip-off TGT...

It’s real weird to for two people to confidently pontificate about an event that happened a decade and a half ago, which neither of them witnessed, on a TV show that neither of them were involved with at the time.

Remember when the 5 series used to be handsome? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

I just drove my Model 3 around 4500km around northern BC this summer, camping with my family. It was incredible and the infrastructure was frankly amazing. The province of BC has just completed it’s electric highway initiative, and one can now travel anywhere in the province in an EV. I found chargers all over the…

That would be the “as it turns out” part.  As it turns out, the sun is hot.

Well, that’s about to change. All the Cybertruk bros in SoCal are headed that way now.

Has the Camaro SS ever been a “rival” to the Demon 170? Ummm no. 

Its the method that is surprises not the results. I have never seen a factory car hook up that much power like that. It’s violently efficient even the burnout.