Rebrickable is similar. It uses the real LEGO Porsche 911 set pieces with aftermarket instruction book. My only issue with either is the windshield doesn’t fit the frame nicely.

The “ancient” 4 year old Model Y. We’ll probably see the Highland refresh in 2025, just not in 2024. 4 years is not long for a car generation. Even 5 or 6 is extremely normal. And it’s not like it hasn’t had any minor refreshes, wasn’t it just 2023 when it had a minor interior refresh to clean up the door/dashboard…

You can learn it quick. I bought a 1987 Fiero GT once and my dad had to drive it home because I didn’t know how to drive stick yet. I learned

and it doesn’t seem to be very different from the $450 Tesla Tequila

and reminded him that he signed a Tesla Vehicle Order Agreement which states if a Cybertruck owner sells the EV during the first year, they can be fined $50,000 and be banned from buying future Teslas

You’re welcome to have that political opinion. But it’s relevance to the design and build quality of an automobile he didn’t personally design, manufacture, sell, buy?

Correct that the Cybertruck’s steering response is speed-dependent. If you’re moving, the wheels don’t try to turn as quickly. Maneuvers like this are probably meant to get out of tight parking, where you’re going too slow you likely wouldn’t notice this amount of lag. The actual cause of the lag is probably related…

We have a 2018 Tesla Model 3 and 2023 Tesla Model Y. There’s a HUGE misconception that Tesla doesn’t have physical controls.

Part of my point is that we don’t actually know if either of them still have the factory tires on, and the tire choice matters more than most other factors in this scenario

Agreed. On my Fiat I’ve got 3 sets of tires: summer performance (Pirelli P Zero), winter (Blizzak WS-80), and gravel/dirt (Federal G-10 Gravel). Ain’t no way I would be driving the Pirellis on gravel or the Federals on the highway if I can avoid it.

The average user will only drive it on pavement, and will want it to perform well on pavement to show off to their friends

Selling Tesla engineering R&D to the competition doesn’t seem exclusively pro-Tesla. They have good and bad things to say about all of the cars I’ve seen them tear down

The few that I’ve seen were Goodyear but no Wrangler text on it, just M+S (typically printed on all seasons). Tread not really aggressive

As someone who has been to an actual class about how tires make a difference on lose surfaces, it does actually make a big difference. (You would not believe how many tires I own.) What is probably happening is that the traction control is detecting excessive wheel slip and is just cutting power.

When I was car shopping with my wife in 2014, we were at a Ford dealer looking at a Ford Focus in “Blue Candy”. The dealer tried talking us out of buying it because “in 5 years you’re going to look back and say wow, that was such a 2014 blue”. We ended up getting a Soul Red Mazda6 instead at a different dealer. Just…

To be fair to the Cybertruck, we’ve got no idea what models of truck these were if the drivers were good at drag racing and driving on sand or even how long the race was.

Technically not too late, but in a place where 100% of people are doing a thing a certain way, what possible incentive is there for 100% of them to change to a different thing that really makes no practical difference to them, but is just better for someone living on the opposite side of the world?

That would be great, but seeing as how we’re over a century into electricity being adopted worldwide and there still isn’t a standardized residential wall socket, good luck getting that to stick for EVs. Europe is too far along to change away from their CCS2 (which is like the horrible CCS1 that the US is dropping in…

And that’s why almost everything you need to touch while a Tesla is in motion is accessible via physical buttons without removing your hands from the steering wheel, despite what all the memes suggest. It’s just that it’s done in an extremely uncluttered way.

It’s actually $150k if single, $225k head of household, or $300k if married.