It’s a shame McLaren didn’t use Takata airbags in this particular car.

Somewhere, Tavarish’s ears just perked up.

“Are we all that surprised that the first Cybertruck owner on Nantucket used the pullout method?”

I’ve seen it before. It’s so dumb, it’s awesome. Not at ridiculous as sidecar racing though.

“You can trust a Jalopnik writer not to crash a Camaro.”

Look if you’re in Nantucket it’s because you want to wear pink pants, eat fish sandwiches, flaunt your massive inherited wealth through extremely practical designer shoes, and slowly go mad in a creaky old mansion built 200 years ago by the widow of a whaling captain. Modern extravagances like the Cybertruck just…

If you’re intrigued, this King of the Baggers docuseries is worth a watch.

VW was actually who I had in mind with my comment.  the 1.8T and the 2.0T that replaced it was dropped in virtually all of their offerings in varying levels of performance and much of that was due to ECU tuning.

Reverse. The Hindenburg didn’t kill airships.

Sounds like Zhu is the one doing all the heavy lifting that would have earned Musk is $56B comp package had it not been struck down by a judge, and now Zhu is being blamed for Tesla’s sale slide that is mostly likely caused by Musk’s big crazy racist mouth.

Absolutely true, and from a rational point of view, very much analogous. Psychologically, though, it’s different - VW, for example, sold the exact same engines with the exact same hardware and turbos at something like five different power levels, and the only difference was ECU firmware. But they never offered you an…

Having eliminated multiple tiers of folks taking care of operational details, I’m sure Mr. Musk will employ his impressive organizational and management skills to keep Tesla on track, and won’t let himself be distracted by Twitter.

That was kind of the opposite of what’s going on here. Apple was throttling the processor to make the battery last longer, and they weren’t trying to sell customers an unlock to speed up the processor or get more battery life. 

When it is cozying up to power, it isn’t political.

It’s about the line, not about who reached the highest track speed or drove the longest route.

Well, you can ask that. But I wouldn’t expect any automaker pulling these kind of shenanigans to grant it to you. Subscription services aren’t for your benefit; they’re designed to smooth out and maximize the company’s cash flow.

Yes, and they’ll re-lock it w/ the next OTA update. I suspect they’ll lose money on this though. Very few people will pay for it, but Tesla incurs the HW and PR cost on every vehicle.

It would be a fair response to having microtransactions foisted on you after the fact.

Dodge is planning the same thing for the Charger EV’s Stage 1 and Stage 2 kits for (smirk!) “adding” more horsepower to the vehicle.