Jalopnik jumping the shark.

Tesla has problems with quality.   So does Mercedes, BMW, Audi, GM, Ford, etc.

I’ll often drive my manual Alltrack gently to get good mileage. But I watch my rear view mirror to make certain it doesn’t inconvenience traffic and I drive just over the speed limit. It’s not unusual to get 38-42 mpg as long as the trip is long enough that the engine warmup time is a fraction of the trip and there is…

It’s not how many units you sell - it’s how much profit you can make. If they cancel a somewhat popular model, the company probably figures most buyers will just buy a different model in their lineup - something that may have a bigger profit margin.

“How does his taint taste, anyway?”

From wikipedia:

Musk was a cofounder of a company called Global Link (later renamed zip2). The only money his father kicked in was around $20K. It was later sold to Compaq. The money Musk got from that sale was used to cofound X.com. Eventually X.com merged with Confinity and the new company changed its name to Paypal. The money from…

A few years ago I took a flight on Spirit Airlines.   While the plane was a cattle car, there was no worry that the seat in front of me was going to recline - the seats were all fixed upright.   A small win for a meh flight.

That Firebird is one of the reasons I don’t miss Pontiac. To me Pontiac became a car company whose cars had exteriors with large trim pieces made of cheap plastic that would fall off and interiors full of cheap plastic just waiting to break.

Wonder if this will be used by car manufacturers to go after aftermarket replacement body parts.

Beaver teeth.

It’s more like “maximizing slaveowner value”.

Voldemort.

It takes me about two hours to mow my yard. My fitness tracker tells me I do around 9000 steps. No way would the current electric mowers work.

The grill on the Lexus is so ugly.   No way I’d buy something that ugly.

“Where’s my engines, Jeff?”   -- Tory Bruno

So much “all new” that it might be wise to wait a couple of years for the bugs to be worked out....

If I wanted a car with an automatic I’d buy a fucking Camry.   The C8 is the first Corvette that I’d say *Nope* to.  And I don’t care if it can shift faster than a manual - I wouldn’t be driving it at a racetrack.

If you can quickly swap the batteries, you can quickly steal the batteries. Just look at catalytic converters......

While its good to see the uptick in EV sales, the auto market is so weird right now that it is difficult to come to valid conclusions.