5th gear: They should simply allow buyers the option to pick up the car from Sochaux; give them a credit, too.

Yep. There is a reason I don’t engage with the junkie outside my office trying to sell me “his” used bicycle, but it can be pretty hard to discern a legitimate seller on FB Marketplace or whathaveyou. Of course, sometimes people ignore clear warning signs.

I used to work as a sommelier, so I have lots of opinions on this matter (and many others - don’t get me started on artificial cherry/benzene flavor). It’s how I put my wife to sleep at night.

I fully expect Tesla to be broken up in the near future, with one company taking on all liability (for AutoPilot etc) and another one keeping the Tesla name.

I will readily believe that scene.

I have read lots of descriptions of what Big Mike bananas taste like and I am so curious. Might also explain some of the weird ass 1950s recipes involving bananas and cheese.

I don’t go to the slideshows (obviously), but sometimes I will open the header page just to read the comments and people appear to be staying away in droves.

At least Vegas provides some kind of “entertainment” simulacrum.

This is like when the awkward girl in a stupid movie takes off her glasses and lets her hair fall down in slow motion.

Not really meant as an anti-Altima swipe, just shorthand for terrible, aggressive drivers with zero sense of responsibility and little spatial awareness. There are probably dozens of Altimas operated by normal, sane human beings.

Wait, wait... he’s the brains???

Could work the other way, too - if I buy a Toyota and there is an issue with the finish on a button (satin rather than semi-gloss) I might have a fit, whereas I might give my Alfasud a high rating as long as it is not actively trying to kill me.

I was going to say the exact same thing. Typical Florida Boomer dude in the tropical pattern shirt.

Altima drivers are famous for being badly behaved, thinking they are immortal, doing 95mph on a donut spare while cutting lanes etc. But don’t take my word for it:

Thank you all for saving me the trouble of having to explain what should be painfully obvious to all.

These are the people who run lights and speed without consideration. I assure you that they are just as dangerous as the asshats in Altimas.

I am sure the guy would have been ok with getting a ticket if they had also ticketed the a-hole in the Suburban. Those people (above the law, large SUVs, zero morality, shitty attitudes) are a danger to everyone around them.

Look it up. My favorite theory is that it describes what the remnants of a crashed one looks like: imagine a helmet with some strips of meat dangling.

They might not want to sell them for the same reason Ferrari won’t sell you a 2020 F1 car - too much proprietary information.

My car has 48hp and weighs 1599 pounds. If I mistook the pedals, the forces involved would be smaller by an order of magnitude. It’s sort of Tesla’s fault for giving people what they think they want (unbridled power).