The picture of the curb rash shows scrapes on the tire itself.  This damage is extremely fresh.  

In this article you describe the truck as both a 2023 and a 2019...

His cousin was also in Automotive, selling half a million brake pads to Ray Zalinsky to keep Callahan Auto afloat. Rolls Royce of brake pads.

The cop who showed up summed up how little they care about actually doing anything about it when he said she had a good standing for a civil case. 

If the purchaser is not on the title, why is the state harassing them to carry insurance on the car? 

Obviously, selling the car was wrong. What’s weird to me is, how do they sell a car without a working transmission. And why would they have fixed the transmission if the warranty was no longer in force? (12,000 miles was the limit)

Regardless, if you have a contract and don’t miss a payment, they have no right to take it. Only way that would be possible is if the contract stated they could repo the car for any reason and were not required to pay back the payments made, which would not legally hold up.

They probably never transferred the title. Pretty sure that is a common BHPH deal as they know that most people stop paying and they repo and resell. 

Most likely a BHPH lot that doesn’t release the title to you until you pay off the absolutely absurd amount ($6k for an 18 year old Taurus is larceny!).

How is this not theft? If I did this to a neighbor and their lawnmower I would be in prison within 3 days.

Imagine the outrage and mockery if this happened to a domestic carmaker.  But Toyota gets a pass.  Again.

Damn, that’s over half the MSRP for a 3 year lease! And the MSRP is already too high for what this car is.

Which, as far as degradation goes, seems pretty fuckin’ good. That means it retains ~91% (Model Y) or ~89% (Model 3) of original range performance. But again, this sounds good, but without comparing it to other manufacturers and models it’s hard to conclusively say.

I’m so shocked to learn this. So shocked.

I don’t see this as new. It’s GM’s 50+ year old way of doing things:

Last year we bought a ‘22 Chevy Bolt EV, and liked it so much that earlier this year we replaced it with a ‘23 Chevy Bolt EUV. To me, the biggest mistake Chevy is making is cancelling the Bolt and pushing all customers up to the Blazer EV (which starts at $49K).

at least those who perished were obliterated so quickly there would be no way to even feel pain or know they are dying. Assuming there weren’t a bunch of signs before like cracking/shaking they probably had a peaceful death. 

“Meh, no one put a gun those people’s heads to get in the carbon fiber coffin.”

Not unaware at all. They got the structural failure alerts and were trying to ascend when it imploded. They knew what was going on.

“but would you also say that for everyone that climbs into a passenger jet?”