sure sure sure. but it was still obviously more than a fender-bender, right? It would have had to be 10s of thousands in repairs.

Also - how much damage did it take to salvage this car? Obviously it was (at least mostly) repairable, but it had to have been pretty serious. Stolen or flood damage probably, something that’s an instant write-off.

No one who actually wants a Rolls wants one this age. It’s too old to show off and too new to be collectable.

Which messaging? The messaging in Michigan? Or a week later when he talking shit about Michigan? Everything he said was to pander to the crowd in front of him at the moment, and people were too dumb to see it.

I’m not a material scientist, but I think the grades of stainless that work well for stamping/forming in particular are ones that tend to be magnetic - so obviously it makes sense these are magnetic - but I never would have thought to try to put magnetic logos on it. At my old job we made stainless springs, and those…

Or put them underwater - they can’t work underwater.

I’ve seen a few around, but saw my first yesterday that was in a real color. Looked a lot better in orange than the black/gray shades I’d previously seen - and less “murdered out”. But yeah, the guy driving it was definately a douche.

The cyberstuck is stainless steel, you heathen!

The late 80s/early 90s trucks have been making a big comeback with the youths. They are cool with the hipster GenZ crowd who didn’t grow up with many around (as a Millenial in the suburbs I didn’t even see many around - those were work trucks not commuter cars). Of course a big part of the popularity is that they are…

I understand the concept- you want to know what the car you are buying is going to be worth in 3 years, but you can’t be 100% certain, right? Looking at a car that’s already been on sale for 3 years (or in the case of the Land Cruiser, even if it’s a completely different car there’s good reason to believe it will hold…

If you knew the car was moving on a specific day, it would be super easy. It probably doesn’t even need to be a spoofed email for most people to fall for it. I can easily imagine the poor folks working in their office dealing with pissed customers and delayed shipments getting a phone call or an email from…

Colorado has a 4% state income tax, Nevada is 0%

Most corporate cybersecurity training these days is based around getting people to recognize a sketchy email. And by people, I mostly mean old people. But dumb people and/or people who just don’t give a fuck (and benefit of the doubt, maybe they are just overworked and don’t have the time or brain space) are also…

Yeah, I know it says it’s in Phoenix and the sun can be rough on things, but this thing does NOT look like you’re trying to sell it for $17k. It doesn’t look obviously dirty, but at the same time not really clean...

Who know, they could be dumb, they could be already taking a bath on those cars, or they could be pricing the negotiation. But probably dumb.

Also a chance that base trim levels that came in right below the price cutoffs for the tax credits could go away entirely, so on some higher end vehicles the new starting price could be more than $7500 more than it is (effectively) now. I guess for buyers at the top of the market, boo hoo, right?

Not knowing anything about these - $7k seems fair for a non-rusty trucklet that’s super unique in the US.

To be fair, they are best for hitting emergency vehicles if Tesla is making them.

Elmo is clearly on to his next distraction from pretending he cares about Tesla anymore. Maybe he’s figuring Tesla can survive without the credits and pickup some market share while others bow out of EVs. Or maybe he’s figuring he can manage to keep the credits for Tesla because they are special. Or maybe (and it…

All true. What I also got out of his statement is “it would be real real cool if the government gave us money to invest in renewables because even though we have a LOT of fucking money, and we’re going to invest in them anyway because that’s how we’re going to stay viable in 40 years, we really like it when the…