Either pay a bit to help prevent climate change or pay A LOT more to mitigate it.

If you can’t afford a new car, you effectively don’t exist to automakers

They are not practical unless you have a garage and can install a charger someplace out in the burbs. In my DC condo building built in 1981, there is simply no way to add charging stations. Not unless you want to incur a special assessment of lots of money to do it. Most apartment and condo buildings in the city are…

To put this into perspective, a regular piece of printer paper is about 90 microns thick, so Elon expects a whole damn car to be accurate to within roughly 1/10 the thickness of a piece of paper. That’s not possible on a consumer vehicle. Hell, even that recent $30,000,000 Rolls Royce wouldn’t have tolerances that…

“All parts for this vehicle, whether internal or from suppliers, need to be designed and built to sub 10 micron accuracy.​”

This is one of the few times where it would have been appropriate to just have a slideshow of Jalopnik’s favorite cars that sold and a little piece each of the writers here wanted to include about them.

Daily reminder that Ted Cruz liked a porn post on Twitter on 9/11. 

Yep. A car is not an investment vehicle, and the number of stories where cars managed to rise enough in value to make up for the money spent on keeping the thing in shape, and beat the market...is infinitesimally small.

Its pains me to think you could have had this same car in the late aughts for 60k- to 80k depending on miles and condition. 

hell, even Hoovie’s C8 Z06 fell very short of his expectation, barely made MSRP iirc.

I’ve watched with amusement at these flippers lately, not just the 300C but all sorts. I will watch almost any auction on BaT and Cars&Bids for these new cars with 90-200 miles on them trying to flip. 300Cs. Broncos. TRX. Raptors. Within the last year, with few exceptions.... the final bid on most of them have failed…

You mean a Bronco Sport might not be the right vehicle?

Dude, you would have to keep this thing like 50 years to maybe make money on it. I feel a little sorry for people who buy things like this thinking they are “investments”, but come on, it is a Chrysler 300, not a Porsche GT3. How many of the Last Call Charger/Challenger models are going to meet the same fate? Socked…

To be fair, the JL/JLU/JT platform isn’t all that dated. It came out in 2018.

1. The US average price of a new car is $48k.

This was exactly my thought, in additional to the per mile tax there is some sort of multiplier for the weight of the vehicle.  Heavier vehicles cause more damage, so they would have a higher multiplier.  So if you were still driving a relatively featherweight ICE vehicle that gets great MPG, you are still paying less…

Very well said, I was thinking exactly the same. EV’s and efficient vehicles aren’t getting “screwed” by this and gas guzzlers aren’t necessarily getting some unfair benefit from it. More like it’s taking away the current free pass heavy EV’s are getting, and eliminates the subsidy that gassers are currently paying to…

“Ford made a Bronco”.... *for social media.

Unifi Aviation, which Delta contracts for its ground crew service at San Antonio told BBC that the incident did not involve a breach of the company’s safety procedures.

I hope they were at least honest with the families. “We’re treating this as a rescue operation, but I want to prepare you that our early indications show that there was most likely a catastrophic implosion.” I’d hate to have been someone who knew them and strung along for four days by the news cycle with oxygen…