If I were him, I’d probably just be yelling it out to random strangers whether they recognized it or not.

I saw one of these driving through the grocery store parking lot a couple of months ago. I said to myself, “Holy shit, is that a Bricklin?” and the guy must have read my lips because he yelled out the window, “Yeah, it’s a Bricklin!”.

You can make a relatively light EV if you make it a priority. The OG Tesla roadster was 2,700lbs. You could get an NC PRHT almost up to that. And that was with 2008 battery tech. 

Hey John, what about the time you were in Paris for Call Of Duty 3, and the police got called because of the Nazi flags hanging visible from the street?

...and by  CG I meant center of gravity, not Cameron Glickenhaus.  But also maybe Cameron Glickenhaus.  Not in a bad way, though.  I like it.

Ho-hum is the VW way. Even their more exciting designs like the Brazilian SP2 were lackluster in performance. I mean, VW, Volkswagen is literally the people’s car. The people generally don’t need excitement, they need a practical and conventional way to get from one place to another in relative safety, with general…

pretty much making it a quintasential VW.

I think the feeling from a lot of the “ho-hum” reviews is that, up to now, most newer EVs have been offering something “Exciting” and “Different.” They’ve had unique features or eyeball-flattening acceleration or drive-it-yourself tech or SOMETHING that sets them apart from the typical gas car.

They didn’t lie about that - on the test bench, they met emissions standards just fine. The cars were engineered very well and are able to meet all regulations. Just by choice, they didn’t do that when the car wasn’t on the test bench anymore, which is obviously highly unethical. But the engineering was sound.

They offer all the same benefits as a unionized employee....until they don’t. And then it’s too late to say you need a union

An argument for use of the fat suit would be that gaining weight, as Christian Bale did for Dick Cheney or Robert DeNiro did for Raging Bull or even Renee Zellweger in Bridget Jones Diary, just isn’t healthy. These actors often report that their metabolism is never the same afterwards.

Airlines ordering plans that only exist on paper is a very normal thing. It’s what builds the business case to go ahead on a new design.

Tesla is basically given free rein in the U.S., outside of the regulations that every other automaker has to comply with, like having factories that follow covid restrictions or not misleading people about cars that can’t pilot themselves.

This thing looks incredible, and everytime I am reminded that it exists, I vaguely want one. In between actually looking at a picture of it, it completely vanishes from my consciousness. That isn’t great given that I spend too much time thinking about cars, and am actively shopping for an EV.

NIMBYs generally have no good reasons for their complaints.
Razing forests to build more car factories we don’t need is a pretty legit reason for protest. There are already enough car factories in the world.
Pretty sure these protests wouldn’t be there if the immediate environment wasn’t as valuable.

All Tesla plants are haunted by a lumpy South African ghost with bad hair who materializes behind you and mumbles about simulation theory and Roko’s Basalisk

What is often overlooked when talking about the Tesla factory is how much Tesla is contributing to the delays. They very recently filed for another change of plan, which they have done multiple times, only to then complain that it takes too long to get approved. Which would be expected if you present the officials…

They don’t have to be in the same room, just on the same network.