The car just wanted to be free.  Free from the garage it was being kept in, slowly dying.  Car depression is real.  And it’s coming for yours too!

This right here is why you get financing from another institution (bank, credit union, etc.) BEFORE you go buy a car.  So many dealerships are scummy, it’s simply not worth the risk.  And if you can’t get bank financing, you probably shouldn’t be buying the car anyway....

Can he just leave Tennessee and solve this garbage situation?

I’m wondering who will be the first to throw a giant “sequential shift lever” in the middle of the console so we can really pretend we’re rally drivers. I feel like the Ioniq 5 N already has space there for someone to install an aftermarket shifter that plugs in via CAN bus and mimics the shift paddles controls...

This would be perfect for downtown locations in large cities, so yes, in some places, it’s fine.  On any highway in America, no.

Here is my answer: Make cars last longer and be easier to keep on the road longer. To do that, make sure that all the chassis bits/pieces are not going to rust away (stop using steel for chassis please), and work on standardizing the componentry even moreso than today.

Or just tax the fuel more.  It’s amazing how quickly people switched to more fuel efficient vehicles when gas went from $2.50 to $4.50 per gallon.  And for those that can afford to drive a gas guzzler, they can keep doing it...

Probably just self-insured at this budget level.  Why pay State Farm when you have pockets this deep?

Always measure from the base.

Seeing as how people are obsessed with PPF nowadays, and there are some really good PPF wraps that have color, maybe the way to go is just get White or Black and then have your local shop PPF the car in whatever color suits your fancy for like $3-5k...seems like a smarter way to spend the money.

I’ve been hearing horror stories about the new LT-based V8s in the new Suburbans/Tahoes, so maybe they were nervous about that and switched to something even less known for reliability?

What’s more wild is that this CEO is getting $39M for his “efforts”, but Musk is trying to get more than 1000x that much ($56B).  *THAT* is beyond insane.  How many countries have a GDP less than that?  Wikipedia says that would put him at roughly #88...right about Uganda.

I have absolutely zero sympathy for these idiots and I’m frankly amazed with how calm the officers were able to remain in that situation.

...where’s my checkbook?

Agreed.  He also thought that people would spend unending amounts of money on his cars, and look how that is panning out now. Remember when he said that his cars would be worth *more* as they aged because of software updates and autonomy? What happened to all that?

That one up top is important though.

First car - 1987 VVW Jetta (this was in 1995). Suddenly, it just wouldn’t start. Would crank and crank, but nothing else. With help from my dad, who had plenty of experience with pushrod-based engines from the 50s-70s, we set to diagnosing. Wasn’t getting spark. Put a new cap, rotor, plugs, wires on it, because why…

Please elaborate on this - I just want to know what’s the scoop on the 1.5T (I don’t have one, just curious).

I think this article also misses something important - some people LIKE the simple way cars used to be, which is why stuff in the 10-20 year age is just about perfect.  It’s new enough to not feel prehistoric, but it’s not slathered with useless obnoxious tech that most people truly don’t need/want (like huge screens)…