Helps to protect the bodywork from scrapes and bumps, and it makes the car look more rugged and SUV-like, which is more appealing to American consumers than a traditional wagon

Remember when this site would have had an unmodified vehicle pic to compare? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Wait wait wait wait wait are you saying, are you ACTUALLY IMPLYING that Elon Musk overpromises with ridiculous claims and then MASSIVELY UNDERDELIVERS and yet people still report his ridiculous claims as facts?

This just in… Elon musk lies.

So a Porsche dealership, out of all businesses that could’ve popped for the EV, buys an Origami Truck for nearly a quarter mill...what the hell is up with that?

Sad that this 20 year old model of a long discontinued car is far more appealing than anything Infiniti sells now. They used to be interesting, but boy, that hasn’t been true in a long while. 

To be fair, the 1st-gen M45 was a pretty fantastic car, and I still love the way it looks.

You okay?

Don’t worry, if any other auto company CEO had a side gig company that killed a dozen monkeys with a brain implant chip, we’d report on that, too. I’d be more than happy to rake Mary Barra over the coals for such a fiasco.

20 years from now, today’s marketing material will also be cringe.

From awkward uses of slang from the time to club references, Ford tried a bit too hard in attempting to appeal to young people with the Focus.

All marketing material is cringy and always has been. These are neat historical documents, but I don’t see anything particularly egregious here. 

Does it need to be pointed out that there are stainless-steel-bodied Deloreans built in 1981 that still haven’t “attracted rusting surface contaminants?”

There’s no early implementations at this point. These things hit the market in 2004 per the IIHS and the data shows cars with them have lower rates of claims. The US regulators have once again been asleep at the wheel, this time for damn near 20 years.

It’s engineered to benefit the vehicle manufacturer most, not the final consumer. Like you implied, many of the goals of the manufacturer directly are bad for the consumer.

Another unanswered question is, how did they know to meet her when she arrived in LAX?

I think if you can pull this off and no one is harmed you should get off free.

Getting past the security checkpoint is one thing, but how the hell do you get on the plane without a ticket? I mean they scan all of the boarding passes on your way onto the plane.

It wasn’t the F Train?

I hate when people say stuff like, “What is MTA doing about this?” What do you want them to do about it? Post signs everywhere stating sex on top of trains is prohibited? Install cameras on the roofs of trains so operators always have a live view of their trains on top of everything else? Put electrified, barbed wire…