You’re yelling into the void, for the most part. Youtuber’s primary audience and Jalopnik’s primary audience probably has little crossover, if any. Alex Choi 1000000% caters to 8-14yo boys, like that Whistling Diesel, the Paul brothers, or Mr Beast.
That bottle is meant to be shown to people.
Now my house was a short sale, and I refi-ed it to pay for many much needed improvements made ten years later, but that price tag was still lower than this. And I really don’t think it’s all that.
This is pretty weak after selling a flame thrower and a hammer that can’t be used as a hammer. I expect better than some Costco style repackaging of someone else’s product. Let me know when they release the $900 knife that opens inward towards the palm, like a real Tesla product would.
I’ve always been bothered by the term influencer but now I see that it’s accurate. I think the problem was adding ‘social media’ as a prefix instead of 'legislative'.
Oh you mean the guy that almost killed a motorcyclist with his lambo? Hold on let me feel sorry for this guy. Youtubers/influencers need to go away. Stop supporting these clowns
Over 20,000 miles? Modded & tuned engine? How many transmission replacements for this thing so far?
So true. The 5-60 time exposes many cars that aren't really as quick as their 0-60 suggest.
The base R1T starts at $71,700. And yes, deliveries of the ~$45k R2 are still on track to start in the first half of 2026
The idea is that it’s not special anymore.
I always thought it was meaningful in the respect of merging onto a freeway from a dead stop. You may want to know how quickly you can do so in a Geo Metro (answer...eventually) vs. a Mustang (NOW...unless you bounce off a wall first). But I don’t think it is the be-all, end-all of a car.
I’ve been lucky and gotten to drive all kinds of things in my 42 years on this Earth. Maybe it’s rose-tinted glasses and hopeless nostalgia. Maybe it’s my young-self not knowing better. I don’t know exactly. But I’ve driven some ridiculously powerful turbo WRXs and two different Dodge Vipers and some neat Boxsters and…
So... perhaps a modern Miura, or Islero with a V8 (or V12), manual transmission and weighs less than 3,000 lbs perhaps?
When any pleb with near a hundred grand worth of buying power can get an EV that will do 0-60 in under 4 seconds, of course that metric loses the panache it used to have to super and hypercar makers.
Moped? You give him too much power. He should be forced to ride a big wheel everywhere with an, “I’m an idiot,” flag on it. Only once he can go directly east from the waterfront up to the top of Capitol Hill do we talk about letting him have a unicycle, then bicycle, then *maybe* something with a motor.
Maybe just an…
*shrug* wait long enough and someone will put him in the Sound; when you get your jollies off by pissing off an entire city, don’t be surprised when it catches up to you.
Because nothing would make this guy happier than to be able to post a video to his YouTube channel titled: “The cops crushed my car and made me film it.”
This guy has been claiming that his social media income paid for the car. He also told police when he was ticketed that he was going to keep on doing it because he was making so much money. He’s an absolute ass.
I don’t understand - shouldn’t he have been applauded as a hero, due to all of the lives his loud pipes saved?