My guess is to avoid tax payers getting upset about buying foreign vehicles.

A self-hating Right-Wing Log Cabin Republican Ratfucker named Peter Thiel was shot one.

I’ve beat this drum as well, but to a different rhythm. I actually approve of the slide from “journalism” to opinion/blogger because it allows the writers to inject their personalities into their writing more, as well as become more aware of the horrible environmental impact that comes from unchecked enthusiasm for…

Or Tesla is a shit company that just dissolved it’s PR department to save a quick buck. https://electrek.co/2020/10/06/tesla-dissolves-pr-department/

The whole “we’ve reached out to [blank] but have not received a comment” is pretty standard for...everywhere, though. It happened to me here. It happens to me elsewhere. I’ve seen it at other outlets as well. It’s a cover-your-butt statement of “yes, we did the right thing and reached out to get the other side’s…

You might have a point, except the NHTSA made the same comment 6 months ago. saying that they were still waiting after 18 months for a response from Tesla and pointed out that the 6 other companies they reached out to on the exact same issues had responded.

Probably because you see writers that used to be commonplace at Jalopnik 5-10 years ago.

Maybe if you quit joking around and sent them serious questions they might respond?

“When we got back we called highway patrol to tell them that there was a car roof somewhere on the 580, but somebody might have gotten into an accident, I’m not sure.”

Humans have an amazing capacity to try to rationalize that which doesn’t make sense.  That the roof of a brand new car is separating from its supports is pretty far outside the expected.  

Well, what sort of standards are these cars built to?

This is the worst excuse I’ve ever heard.

God this movie is gold whenever these two are on screen.

“Daddy, the top came off...”

Sorry, what?

Japan’s culture of exceptionalism certainly didn’t begin with the post-war influence of the United States. And I definitely wouldn’t call Japanese culture centrist by any means.

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