Let’s translate this GM delay into ‘English’:

I’m guessing there’s something more here going on than driving in the rain. I’ve never read about another Model Y getting disabled by rain. Perhaps some major manufacturing flaw in this specific battery, or prior damage to the battery enclosure?

This is probably only going to be driven to burning man by some rich tech bro who will find a way to get it stuck in the mud

gorgeous all-original 1996 Chevrolet Impala SS

It’s illegal to bring your gun into a lot of places. So a lot of people who carry regularly have to leave their guns in their car.

Exactly. It’s still just mind boggling that Musk went with the CyberTruck nonsense rather than a traditional looking truck with an EV drivetrain for suburbanites. He would have been printing money with these, assuming they avoided all the nonsense delays caused by the idiotic stainless steel body.

You know Ford must employ a team of highly paid / highly skilled data analysts who structure those option packages to push buyers into paying $15-20K more for like $3000 of options!

But you ordered this truck without really knowing the sticker price, and about 18 months before you get it. I have high confidence that GM will build a good EV truck, but that’s still a lot of faith to put into a car company on an unrealeased product.

Every car is built with a catalytic converter — how many extra do we need? Have you ever replaced on that failed for some reason?

Realistically, this is a re-skinned Ariya:

As long as you’re comparing a sports car with giant sedans, you might as well throw in a Dodge Demon, BMW M-something, Hummer EV, and maybe an Escalade V. Sure the SUVs don’t have quite the same 0-60, but they sure make up for it in passenger + cargo space.

+1 she is insane — if your kids aren’t old enough to be alone at home, alone in the mall, or alone on a city bus, then they damn well better not be alone in an autonomous vehicle that could stop on the side of a highway and tell you to wait for half an hour for a pickup from a new (working) vehicle.

Roll Tide

I’d imagine with the current grey color they figured out they could just clear-coat the primer and skip the paint step to save a few bucks.

What’s with Tesla changing their default base-price color?  First black, then white, now grey. 

In 20 years someone will list one of these “ZP Editions” on an auto auction site with <10k miles for $100K, and people will all give it a No Dice because you can buy the non-special-edition with 50k miles for $17K on a used car site.

You know you’ve got a real friend when, post breakdown, they don’t wrap you up in a tarp and leave you on the side of 880 or I5. Unfortunately the Bay Area has enough people already who do this to themselves...

The article title should be: Americans cannot afford electric trucks in 2023. This has nothing to do with sedan vs. cuv vs. pickup.

I’m impressed by the numbers, but I’m not so impressed by the appearance. For a supercar, it looks fine. In the photo above, I could easily be convinced that it was a Lotus, McLaren, Acura, or a next-gen Ford GT40. I’d be double-taking this car to figure out what *brand* it was, not because it was a Ferrari.

It’s true -- you got to have enough room for the toddler to throw all those juice boxes on the floor.  When the car fills up, it’s time to lease a new one.