Cars used to have DC generators, which charged the battery directly. Now they use alternators, which generate alternating current, as their name implies. The alternating current has to be rectified (converted to direct current) to charge the battery, but I guess the system as a whole is more efficient that way.

They used a DC generator prior to the alternator, batteries wouldn't charge so well at idle with a full electric load load.

If it’s good enough for Al Bundy it’s good enough for me. NP.

Deleted scene from Cars?

Based on what metric?.. by the accounts I’ve been reading they are for more reliable than most cars and need far less maintenance.

Completely untrue.

Understand, not making money due to capex is not the same as selling at a loss. I would expect them to post a negative quarter again with the China factory and expansion at Fremont and Sparks for Model Y and the Semi productions. Additionally, they are doing a lot on the battery side of things. The time to worry about…

annnnnd it already broke down, literally on the way home for the guy who bought it

Looks like the old FJ Cruiser blue 

You could probably get a new Kona for 20k but if you need something bigger you will have to go used. To get a Toyota or Honda for this price it will be at least 3 years old and out of warranty 

“. . . Hyundai’s lengthy warranty.”

Now yours sounds like a truck I can appreciate. Honest, hardworking, and not the size of a fucking aircraft carrier. Most new trucks are just incredibly stupid with their space management.

Somewhat related. My neighbour bought a new F150. Then his wife said it was because they were thinking of having a baby and needed a “family car”.

$13k for the least reliable vehicle in the history of vehicles, with a bonus side of extra complication from a turbo? What could possibly go wrong?

Great idea. You didn’t want to bring a passenger anyway.

What’s wrong with the tang color? If you’re driving an open car that looks like it rolled out of Toon Town, you can’t be shy about it.  Embrace it.

Yeah... the color scheme is going to have “Walking On The Sun” stuck in my head, and I’d store those squid-lips front bumper guards in favor of just parking more carefully. I’m torn on chrome accents for what’s left of the bumpers — it would be period-perfect and would pick up on the theme of those baby moons, but…

I thought I knew a bunch of random cars, but this is one that was totally off my radar. A LaDawri Sebring in... Presidential Orange.

There was a time when companies like La Dawri, Devin, and Kellison made sports car bodies and kit cars were 50s and 60s cool instead of 70s Kitsch. Those very cars have been featured at high end car shows like Amelia island, and many raced SCCA back in the day.

Look at how the back bumper lines up in the 3/4 rear picture. I know GM had some weird panel gaps, but that gap tells me this thing too a hit on the butt. The lack of original badging and the too good to be true paint job tells me something happened to this car.