Back in my 20s, I never got over 8k miles out of a set of tires. For some reason, the tires always had a sort of gooey layer of rubber on the tread that looked like it was melted. Must have been something wrong with the car and tires I had back then.

The EQS weighs like 6,000 lbs; Hellcat is 4,400...

I saw that too, like “buys $100k car...bitches about replacing tires on $100k car”.

I just checked my Model Y with just over 13k and they’re all about 1/4 of the way through. So I’ll get about 50k give or take.

I just checked the wear bars on my Model 3 yesterday. I am about due... after 51000 miles.

The EQS starts in the low $100k range so my sympathy is lean for Mr. Semel.

Cybertrucks have basically only been operated in winter thus far. Plus this is a dataset of - 2 drivers. Bit premature to declare accurate range average.

Also, I am unsure how you think Tesla doesn’t know precisely how aerodynamic the shaping is from actual tunnel testing and analysis. It’s not like that can be a real…

Do tons of people cross-shop the Model 3 and 3 Series? Yes absolutely

From a bit of a distance it looks tough but from up close you can tell it was designed to look tough but not be tough. I don’t think we should expect factory tires to be all that amazing because as you pointed out they want to maximize the range for the EV. for the people that take them offroad or deep in snow, they…

Isn’t it fun when someone who has never seen the truck, never drove the truck, and knows absolutely nothing about the situation at hand in the video bases an entire article on a couple seconds in a TikTok video? For all we know the driver punched it and drove straight up the hill. For all we know he got stuck there…

Why give your first ten trucks those same flawed tires?

I was thinking the same thing. To most people at least moderately familiar with EVs, it is common knowledge that traveling at higher speeds will reduce the total range. I have a PHEV and in warm weather, I get about 28 miles of range in lower speed (non-highway) driving but that drops to around 20 miles if I am on the…

An EPA range test isn’t only held at highway speeds, as the test involves a full battery worth of driving in city cycles averaged with a full battery worth of driving on a highway cycle. This is only one half of the test, but the truck would have to be capable of around 390 miles of city driving in order for the…

I can’t be the only one who thinks this is kind of awesome, right? Isn’t this basically peak-Jalop? Buying the cars of yesteryear that we claim to pine for, but also with a warranty?

That is the way that business works.  when something is no longer profitable, it is abandoned.  

I realize that no one at Gawker understands the difference between revenue and profit. This is evident by the fact that your properties keep going bankrupt. $7B in revenue is meaningless unless you include all of the other numbers.

The average Pizza Hut franchisee makes a whopping $92k per year. That’s after taking…

The article mentions nothing about the amount of profit the California franchises make (as a percentage or otherwise). So the article doesn’t address the point at all.

This is an extraordinarily stupid statement on multiple levels.

No we aren’t. You sound like a 100% asshole.

Subarus are generally owned by weirdos who neither want to nor care for driving but have to do it anyway since that's how the country is designed