I got an offer for my Model 3 for $10k more than I paid for it the other day. I’m pretty sure I’m still keeping it because it just seems terribly wasteful to get rid of a car 2 years and 18k miles after buying it, but if I did sell it, I’d immediately buy a new Model 3.

I got an offer for $45k for my Tesla Model 3 SR the other day. I bought the car for $35,000. Trying really hard to resist the urge to swap into a newer one...

What are you talking about? 15.5 hours of driving from Boston, MA to Charleston, SC at an average speed of 65 mph. 8 charging stops for 20 minutes each. Total time, 18 hours. Superchargers are nicely located at rest areas, and with a family of four and a dog, we stop fairly regularly anyway and eat Chipotle or Five…

Yeah, Tesla seems like a weird choice to include as a comparison. They seem to have no intentions of including planned obsolescence, as even the oldest 2012 Model S gets the latest software updates and all the features its hardware can support.

Yeah, that gives me bad flashbacks to late-90s and early-2000s American blobs. Like a slightly more angular, modernized version of the 3rd gen Taurus.

While this incident is really dumb, airports really are hotspots for human trafficking despite the security surrounding air travel. Hub airports like ATL or international gateways like SFO or JFK often make hundreds of arrests a year, and airline and airport employees go through training to detect potential…

Yeah it is a shitty boring ass trip, but we can’t take our dog if we fly, and it’s nice to have our own car. We were just visiting my parents, which we do every year, and we’ve pretty much come to the conclusion that the drive is less of a PITA than the flight.

I took a 1000 mile trip in 1 day last March, from MA to SC, in my EV. It took 18 hours compared to 17 for the last time I did it, in my old gas car. Never encountered a single faulty charger and the car charged at its full capacity every time. It was the most tolerable the trip had ever been for us, gas or electric,…

They really need to stop calling them “all seasons” because they’re just not. 3 seasons at best.

Throughout most of 2020, the Model 3 lineup looked (roughly) like this. There was one point at which the SR+ got down to $37,000 for a couple months, but this is how it was for most of the year:

Wow, people take out long car loans. I’ve never even considered one longer than 48 months. Any longer and it feels like you’re stretching for a car you really shouldn’t be buying.

That would require Blue Origin to launch something into orbit, and we all know Jeff Bezos wouldn’t even try to include a toilet anyway. Piss in the water bottle or else you won’t hit your quota.

Yeah, I’m just a private pilot with less than 100 hours in PA28s, but I’ve never heard of switching tanks on climbout. My usual climb checklist is flaps up, fuel pump off, increase airspeed to cruise climb, and I save tank switching for cruise. Strange that a CFI would switch tanks at 1300ft unless there was some…

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed…

I just don’t really understand this. Tesla’s most ambitious plans are to produce about 10 million cars a year by 2030. Even assuming they hit that, and maintain their current operating profit margins while producing cheaper cars, that’s only slightly better than Toyota’s profitability and revenue. Why should Tesla be…

I hope this is a joke. You can’t be bothered to look up actual test results?

This also isn’t the first time this kind of data has been totally misleading or even downright false. A Tesla Model 3 gets about 4 miles per kWh on the highway. Superchargers, the most expensive way to recharge a Tesla, cost about $0.26 per kWh. So driving 100 miles would cost $6.50. At current gas prices of $3.40 per…

Taking a vacation to Cancun ≠ attending to a newborn baby

I’d like to add the 1998 Lexus GS 400. It looks like a bar of soap with a leather interior, but it’s got a 4-liter, 300hp V8 and back in 1997 it was briefly the quickest-accelerating sedan in the world before the E39 M5 came out.

I interpreted the question as “what car has the biggest gap between looks and performance?” Some answers go with moderately fast cars that look slow, the Plaid is the fastest car but it just looks moderately fast.