Yep, lots of cars used these to old the rear license plate on to the trunk lid. Or the plastic trim on the truck lid that holds the bracket and sometimes 3rd brake light on a trunk.

Thats from amazon, I didn't look for quality just first that came up. You can search cable spring clamp plier or cable operated spring clamp pliers. Some have better clearance then others, or smaller mechanism to fit in tighter places.

This just sounds wrong... an oil crisis pushed to manufacturers to make less efficient vehicles? I think this is a decade or 2 off of when they really took over. And you forgot about the whole minivan thing. 

Those don’t appear to be new cars.

I don’t know, looks more like 80's to me. Maybe it was supposed to be retro? I can’t remember ever seeing a pace car that looked good. Nor representative of what styling or graphics were used on actual cars people owned.

Mine look nothing like this...

Turn signal stalks can. E expensive depending on how many controls they function. I have a feeling this could have been a cost cutting feature in favor of software.

Didn't musk buy tesla as it was already in development and they were looking for an investor. I'm not sure any of what they originally created was by musk. But these bad ideas probably were.

He helped create paypal, then bought tesla as it was already in development. A steering wheel yoke design is not impactful in any meaningful way. Its just something people at tesla think is cool or think people will think is cool.

Except todays cars it would just be differently styled painted plastic.

Sarcasm? 

Lots of complaints about plastic here. But regardless of “ruggedness” there aren’t very many vehicles built today that aren’t full of plastic, or covered in plastic for styling.

True, except it is still plastic even without the "rugged" package.

So you know if you bought a car like this and did not choose this package. All those same parts would still be plastic... just saying.

Aactually this is not true. I've worked for mercedes for over 25 years. Some of the first cars they had show up with. Batteries in the back originally had them.in the front. They were moved in later cars with newer engines and electronics and guess what showed up in place of where the battery used to be? Also they…

So welcome to like 10 years ago.

Actually it's more to make room for all the module boxes in the engine bay. Lots of them also put the battery under the seat and little back up batteries behind the dash. But they also keep them under hood like other cars.

This might be a european car thing....

I bet it takes someone who knows where the battery is like 15 minutes or less.

When you shut off these cars the high voltage battery gets decoupled. Yes these cars do have a DC/DC converter. It really doesnt change much whether you keep those electronics in the battery pack or seperate. The same issue can happen. Having them seperate makes them more servicable. Anyway you look at it you will…