I once met a man who claimed to have been involved in the abduction of amis as a child.
he told me he would get in the back seat of the car in order to gain its trust and let its guard down, so it could be easily coaxed in.

“what’s that, there are some poorly trained police abusing their power? let’s get rid of all of the police!”
“what’s that, some people with driver’s licenses aren’t getting adequate training? let’s get rid of licenses altogether!”

it’s because people started expecting them to continue making a well-rounded electric car, but that would have been to obvious, so they add a bunch of gimmicky and inconvenient quirks.

$8000, then another $8000 to do an engine+gearbox rebuild, then another $8000 in labour to replace the probably still original brakes.

While we’re on the topic of 2nd gen sambars, can we just take a moment to appreciate the sambar’s adorable little smiley face, made with the headlights and cabin vent?

I’m mostly impressed by how they managed to make this out of a nissan patrol.

is that a frickin’ corvair?

they wanted to make a full on super-gt style tube frame drift car either way, so why go with something boring and normal, and leave the drivetrain pretty much the same layout, when you can do the same amount of work to get something way weirder and cooler?

daihatsu?

this is ethically problematic. Paying more means you’ll be safer.

quick, someone park one in a lake for 6 months to accelerate the corrosion, then sell it to david so he can put a forklift motor and Dana 44s in it!

front brakes?
yeah, I’ll go with front brakes.

what is that abomination of a wheelchair conversion?

isn’t there some law about US presidents not being allowed to drive themselves?

since it’s likely further technical advancements are going to give diminishing returns, and idiots are going to be idiots on matter what, i think the best solution is to implement some sort of “black box”.
perhaps only accessible once the car is in a crash and insurance/investigation work is being done, but it should…

maybe they were saying they dislike Chrysler New Yorkers?

or wait for him to engage it and climb into the back seat, then set it to 100% throttle, lock the steering straight, and disable all of the controls.

or wait for him to engage it and climb into the back seat, then set it to 100% throttle, lock the steering straight, and disable all of the controls.

quick, someone grab the crucifix and the aries repair manual, we need to ressurect Lee Iacocca!

agreed, they can disable fast charging if you bought the car secondhand and didn’t pay the tesla tax, why can’t they disable the glorified adaptive cruise control?
in fact, while they’re at it, disable the radio and air conditioner for a month as well.