They didn’t really “nail the guy” at all. He made it in and out without issue and later was told he did a bad from photographic evidence (my guess is from another guest who took a picture and showed a ranger or a ranger looping the trail.) He didn’t cause anyone any trouble at all.

Your information is outdated. EV fires can be easily put out with a disposable fire-suppression blanket that many emergency services are now stocking.

Honestly it looks like a Subaru Wilderness with X Mode would do that just fine. Have you SEEN some of the trails people take those over? Other than height clearance they are very capable unless you want to do some steep/very rocky climbing.

Are you sure most vehicles in 4wd come with locking diffs? In trucks it’s hard to find locking diffs from what I have seen. Also, are we really sure Subaru’s AWD is less capable than a 4wd with a rear locking diff? From what I recall doesn’t Subaru use clutch packs (like a limited slip) and lock them if it detects…

It is typical that people in large vehicles have no idea that how they drive is terrifying to those in small vehicles. Like filling the entire width of the rear view so that changing lanes is impossible to do safely due to following too closely. The large vehicle driver feels perfectly safe to do this because their…

I had the same thought process recently. In the spring I purchased an MR2 spyder (the most unloved of the line - way underappreciated), and the first time I went to go fuel it up I discovered the parking brake was loose. It slowly started to roll away.

Kind of amazing her leg/door at that angle actually stopped the car.

Right?? Good lord, this is the “adult” version of some kid smashing his video game controller after he loses. 

I once parked at the end of a very gradually slopped culdesac and shut and locked the door. Started walking away when the car popped out of gear and started rolling. I instantly thought “I gotta stop it!” but just as quickly realized that wasn’t going to work. Just too much mass. Standing helpless as the car plowed…

Maybe it’s just the kind of person I am, but I fundamentally don’t understand road rage. I understand being angry at other drivers, a lot of people drive like maniacs, but to open the window to yell at somebody, much less get out of the car? What’s the goal there? Best case scenario is the other person gives you an…

Florida?  Or Texas?  It’s normal.

I just feel bad for whoever was in the Sequoia.

What is it about getting out of cars that are moving to try to get them to stop? You can see here holding on to the door trying to stop it.

Fully expected it to be an Altima. Instead it was the car you roll your negative equity from that Altima into when the Altima gets too banged up to continue being useful.

Errr, we have registration numbers readily available to us here in the auto industry. I can pull reports of every OEM and their registrations down to a zip code, including used cars.

The richest man in the world with $50 billion + of stock value riding on Tesla’s result could probably easily find a way to artificially boost sales. For starters, he could use one of more of his many companies to buy Tesla cars to boost sales, and that doesn’t even require use of his own billions of dollars!

They beat wall street consensus by a measly 1% while still being 5% negative. Not exactly something to pop champagne bottle over, let alone boost the stock price 50%. Also, the robotaxi announcement has been planned for a while now, so that doesn’t account for the recent price jump.

Since Tesla reported a 5% YOY sales decline and their market cap is up 50% in the last month, shouldn’t that mean anyone with positive sales numbers should have their market cap at least double?

Just Tesla sales aren’t doing well, but apparently that means Tesla is worth 50% more in market cap since they announced their poor sales. Everything they do seems to make the stock price go up. Musk could blow his nose and the price will just 5%. And if anyone would be likely to fake sales numbers it’s Musk, so who…

It may be part of media training.

I will say that my boss (and friend) at Chrysler—the best engineering manager I’ve ever known, and undoubtedly one of the best in the industry (Khan, it’s worth mentioning, seems to have a great reputation among his peers as well)—also responded to criticism of the JL Wrangler by…