Well maybe after customer after customer saw $15,000 and up price adjustments at the dealers and that has caused everyone to flip off the dealer and leave. I know after I told my local dealer to go f**k themselves with pandemic price theft I won’t be returning.

That engine has a rear mounted oil pump driven by a timing belt that needs transmission removal every 100k to change it out.

The ladder chassis is old hat. You don’t build a flat 2d shape to be strong. Just look at any bridge with a large span. You use that 3rd dimension for bracing and make a stiff strong light structure. 

GM has 150% of the range and 200% of the charging speed. Even GM’s base model battery has 400 miles of range vs 300 miles.

Promise the buying public a $40k and up truck, deliver a $80k and up truck...And they are surprised when people say fuck no. 

Want to know why Canadians are usually so polite? Because we tried to cut in line once as a teenager and got our asses handed to us. Canadians will defend their politeness with fists, as god intended. You don’t carry a gun here, that is seen as cowardly. 

EV swap are all about scoring junkyard deals and using affordable 3rd party control boards like from openinverter.com ($300 to control a nissan leaf motor for example). Much like boneyard ICE engines are the king of hotrods. Not everyone can afford a all new build on their old hotrod.

And will apple enable this on the iphone 14 pro (it has satellite connectivity)? We all know the answer to that, don’t we.

Fun fact: Insurance companies use the following numbers to gauge fire risk in cars.

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So when is Gizmodo getting dark mode, huh? This website is AWFUL to look at.

Auto makers are banking on the public saying ‘oh, small cars are awful’. But I have news. Even a small shitbox electric car with air conditioning is still a lovely second car. It’s quiet, quick, smooth, low vibration, has lots of zip at low speed and most importantly in crowded cities is easy to park.

First, if you aren’t listing WHICH vehicles are failing, you are just generating clickbait. My guess, some old clapped out Nissan Leaf with an air cooled battery. Or maybe the F-150's abysmal battery/drivetrain cooling system is biting owners in the ass (see towing issues).

I still think they need a ‘compacted trash cannon’ to compress the trash into a brick and fire trash to burn up in the atmosphere, while using that kinetic energy to help boost the orbit.

Whatever you do, don’t install Ublock Orgin and Sponsorskip plugins. Then you won’t see commercials or sponsored content portions of videos. How would youtube make money selling subscriptions if you didn’t see the ads?

Nothing says GOOD MORNING like a portal turret diarrhea in your cup.

The CEO of reddit gets up every day and dreams up new ways of pissing off the user base. Kill the API so the mods are crippled and users can’t use a app they like? Check. Delete your hard earned (and paid for!) reddit coins in September? Check. Insulting mods? Check.

Maybe it’s time to hack and slash car required ‘features’. Do we need government mandated backup cameras and car seat occupant sensors? No. All the garbage mandated in cars todays drives up the price. Yes we need some safety. No, we do not need all the crap that is required to sell a car in North America.

Price accordingly. Ford dealers price gouged all through the pandemic and now customers are driving by with their middle fingers in the air. It’s time to go back to below MSRP deals. If you can’t sell cars at inflated prices, try reasonable prices. ESPECIALLY TRUCKS. Remember those $39K electric trucks you took…

Car surpluses and worker shortages aren’t what the name says. It’s a money problem. Charge too much for a car and get no buyers. Pay an employee too little and you get no employees. Was this that hard to figure out?