I’ve heard various reasons why police chase vehicles for non-violent offenses, but the most reasonable one I heard was “because if we didn’t, everybody would run.”

LOL! Wall Street profited from the EV/SPAC bubble. Your 401k/IRA sufferer the losses.  Wall Street never looses, and if they do, taxpayers bail them out.

The real point is, “I don’t want to be without my car while it’s being unexpectedly serviced.” Because, “How many MORE times is this going to happen in the next several years of ownership?”

I don’t agree with that methodology though. Things that break early on are usually defective parts or assembly and not indicative of long term costs which are mostly due to wear and tear.

This is great info for all those people who own cars for 90 days at a time which is (checks notes) absolutely fucking nobody.

Free energy! Screw off with your physical laws, I know what I got here.

I’m pretty sure you need high pressure HHO generator to make this work.  I guess it must have chemical energy similar to compressed natural gas.  I wonder that pressure that fuel rail operates at.

Are we being honest about Tesla here? Tesla makes fast cars, because electric cars are usually just... fast. In terms of fit and finish, the quality of materials, panel gaps, etc — Uhm, no.

Somewhere along the way the term ‘luxury’ got confused with ‘expensive’.

When will you realize that the Lexus LX you bought is the best vehicle you own? ( have a fun weekend!)

None of that justifies dealer markups though.

Nah, the dealer is brilliant. He’s got a ton of free press, now when people see Tellurides priced at $50K, they’ll think it’s fair because some jackwagon somewhere bought one for $80k.

“Imagine shopping for a house and the realtor telling you the seller said you can’t see the house unless you agree to $100,000 over asking price. You’d walk.”

It looked like a textbook pump and dump to me.

They didn’t even need to do that. My BMW wagon, which has the battery very thoroughly buried in the trunk of the car, has nicely positioned and easy to get to jump starting/charging lug right under the hood. With a red plastic cap on it and everything.

I have five cars, and a laundry list of why none of them are electric.

Or, they could use the 65 year old security the department of defense uses and have encrypted physical keys sent to facilities daily on floppy drives. I never understood why key infrastructure would have access to the internet. It’s dumb.

“After that EVERYTHING was password protected.”

Apple, meet orange.

That’s a beautifully preserved Camry.