No, its all kinds of illegal regardless of who did it. Ford doesn’t get to steal your nav system if a GM dealer sells you a F150 with it installed.

It’s important to remember that this effects buyers of new Teslas as well. If you buy a $20,000 feature that cannot be transferred when you sell the car, that’s an instant $20,000 of depreciation right there. Your $100,000 car’s value on the used market is only $80,000, before you even buy it.

And look at the potential for more theft here. That ECU? Yeah, that runs software, and while you bought the car used for $50,000, the original owner bought it for $100,000, and at least $30,000 of that was in the ECU software, so cough up another 30 grand or your car’s a brick.

I liked Tesla, but this whole situation has soured Tesla for me... I have no respect for a company that does shit like this. Seems to me that this is something the DOT should be getting involved in.

Also: I’ve literally been reading this website for many years now, and somehow, for some reason, someone put me back into…

I got 16 MPG in My BMW 850 last year which only has 296 HP. I am going out to reseal the manifolds and I am hoping I get closer to 19MPG this year

Have you checked the mileage on a Toyota Sequoia?

When you can spec an Traverse to above 60K, this looks like a bargain.

I just noticed that after I posted it. Still, it’s not ... umm let’s use the word angly instead, yeah angly in the right location. Maybe if they moved it forward a bit it would improve the proportions. Or make the whole bed shorter. It bugs me because I really want to like this truck.

I think I just realized what I don’t like about the Gladiator, aside from its length (bear with me for a sec, I know this isn’t a Gladiator article). The truck has lots of slanted lines to it - the trailing edge of the doors, the fenders - but the gap between the bed and cabin is different. It’s a vertical line…

Man, your one anecdote about something that wasn’t an all-stock transaction sure blew THAT rough generalization out of the water!

I took it to mean that those two companies are becoming outdated, which is why they are merging. Not that BW was the electrical juggernaut swallowing outdated companies like Delphi. BW just happens to be bigger right now.

Boomer is no long a generation, it’s a state of mind.

I love sassy Venn diagrams.

If your Sony car dies, does that make it a Walkman?

Other takeaways:

That’s why I passed on it.

You’re very efficiently proving his point. Congratulations!

The counterpoint to this is that the Tesla points always get the most entertaining comments. The split is never more obvious than we discussing how a Model X in a one lane tunnel can carry as many people as a train.

(dis)Honorable Mention: Nissan Murano Crosscabriolet

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