Agree except for one thing - with a CT they absolutely can get away from you, all they need to do is go over a small puddle or into a car wash.

This, I think I heard about one years ago, though it might have been a hoax, was a guy rigging up a shot gun to blast an intruder. It did and I think he ended up charged with attempted murder.

This is why I have zero interest in renting out my car, my house, my horse, or literally anything else I own. People will just destroy it all without a second thought.

As lil John once said, “don’t start no shit, there won’t be no shit.”

Correct. “Man traps” are generally illegal, even on your own property.

The legal question of whether or not you can get away with setting traps on your property and injuring an intruder have long been settled, and it doesn’t end well for the homeowner setting the traps. 

Booby trapping your property with explosives would likely result in felony charges.  Just follow Mark Rober’s lead and make some stink/glitter bomb packages.

That sounds about right. If the driver was the owner, I could see a “deliberate wreck” might rule out insurance, but since they were renting insurance ought to pay the owner, then go after the renter unless there’s something in the rental agreement that affects that. It looks like the driver basically admitted to…

In this case, yes, the Turo insurance should cover this, IMHO (but I would not be surprised if they worm their way out of it). The insured is the owner of the truck, they are in the business of renting them, and it’s not like you can vet who is going to decide to be a vigilante with your truck. So Turo should pay out…

$30,000 in damage to save a $20 Etsy necklace! Huzzah!

Biased answer, but an e46 M3 convertible (with the true 6 speed manual, of course). Not much beats top-down driving when it comes to peering up into the tree canopy, and the M3 can do it at a leisurely pace until that gets boring, then turn it all into a blur of wonderful colors. 

Y’all keep asking, but the answer is obvious:

$4 million?  Makes a Pagani Utopia sound like a bargain.

Agreed wholeheartedly. I’ve always thought Farely seems like he would run a pretty good car company if the goddam shareholders would let him. I’m choosing to believe these quotes are him campaigning for that right.

With that said, man this IS a pretty car. It looks like Porsche built a Model 3 out of the McLaren parts bin.

I’m sure Ford’s shareholders would rather this dude not gush about the competition, but you know what? Good for him. He’s driving the other guys’ cars and giving them an honest appraisal. I hope this car delivers some lessons for can use on their own offerings.

Small correction to the headline, but Xiaomi doesn’t build it, they contract that to BAIC who are an actual car company that has been around for decades. Still it’s kinda crazy that a smartphone company designed a car, and their first go at it is apparently really good. I wonder how much BAIC helped in that regard.

They long ago stole all the intellectual property they need, so this action does no harm to them.

Gate lice exist primarily because most people have little common sense and/or think they are above the rules due to their sense of entitlement. The gate attendants make so many announcements explaining the boarding rules yet half the people in the group 1 line either have no idea what boarding group they are in or are…

They want to avoid paying extra fees, but they also want to avoid the inconvenience of gate checking their bag (for free I’ll add) at the expense of those that did pay some extra fees or have status for earlier boarding. They can pound sand.