“Testing is for the buyers”

The “engineering” on the Cybertruck consisted of putting the initial prototype into production with zero changes or testing (I cannot overstate what a colossal failure it was that these clowns couldn’t figure out that the hubcaps would rub the tires until after they started shipping trucks to customers), so any…

Isn’t repairing ANY totaled vehicle “more trouble than it’s worth,” by definition?

$600 and I’ll take it and part it out.  Otherwise, no way is it even worth half that money!

there’s a reason mine is named butterface

All the recession-era Fords were kinda like this.

The photo with the TPMS fault and an 1/8 tank of gas is really the chef’s kiss on the whole thing.  I’m guessing the door was open when the photo was taken but I can totally see a faulty door switch sensor being part of the deal too.

Wow. Pretty shameful that a dealer would even associate their name with a car in such condition. I admit it, I have one of these. One of Jalopniks most hated cars. It’s been darn good to me, and I keep hanging on to it because it’s reliable, long paid for, cheap to own, and there’s nothing that I’d replace it with…

Almost 6 grand!  No Dice

It needs to be both much harder to get a driver’s license in this country and much easier to lose it.

It may be an aftermarket stick shift, but you could get these with a stick from the factory. My uncle had one. That even looks like the correct shift boot.

How did these become so ubiquitous in the States.

Why? Why would you live in a neighbourhood with an HOA? How did these become so ubiquitous in the States. In Canada, in a neighbourhood of free-standing homes, these are almost non-existent. We have strata boards in condos and planned communities. But regular residential neighbourhoods are free-hold lots. I literally…

“Some residents have taken to parking their trucks in a pay lot over half a mile from the neighborhood”

nothing, which is part of the reason you don’t pay ransoms.

Nothing. And as long as the industry itself fails to spend the necessary money (something it absolutely HATES doing in most cases to begin with) needed to make itself a less appetizing target it will continue to happen.

I don’t think anyone would dispute the Jeep driver being clearly at fault, but someone on another blog made the valid point that when the Tesla began ramming the Jeep, regardless of whether it was malfunctioning or not, it may have appeared to the Jeep driver like a road rage reaction, causing them to flee for their…

The impact accidentally activated the code that makes it flee the scene if it kills a kid. In normal circumstances, the car would also try to persuade the driver by saying “oh no oh no not again I can’t go back to jail.”

What the hell is he doing driving himself? He’s a sitting US senator and a stroke survivor. Hire a driver, JF. You’re a millionaire. You can afford it.

Neil Barofsky sure sounds like a garbage person. Sounds like he needs to experience what it is like to live in Gaza, even pre-war, for a little education.