Roll up to a Honda dealer in Phoenix…

Look, I mean... middle managers gotta middle manage. If you don’t put statistics on something, how do you know if you’re getting better?
But seriously, this shit explains why ever new character feels like they’re soullessly checking a box.

“Alright designers, we’ve gotta hit our Gay quota for the month, and our average…

How else will you put them on display in super public hearings covered voraciously by every media outlet for weeks so that they can be idolized by some other incel shitstick radicalized by meme forums? It’s basic job security.

https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/ claims we’ve had almost 200 so far.

The front end on the ‘13 is a littttle better. Still not great. Other than that, with the running boards, I actually really like the look of it as a whole. It’s fantastic to drive and the interior is amazing. I think anyone who would pay MSRP for it was a nut, and I suppose that’s why it’s ended up being more rare…

I daily a ZDX and absolutely love it. Totally underrated, IMO.

Nikola has Badger prototypes in their lobby that look better than this on close inspection. I feel like if Tesla can’t even afford to match Nikola’s showcar vaporware, they’re really stretched. If there’s one place you should be able to nail some panel gaps, its on the super expensive, one-off, hand-built prototype.

It’s amazing working with people that don’t have a lot of wrenching or tinkering experience and watching them try to catch or fumble stuff when they drop it, usually kicking it across the room to never be found again. Or one guy I worked with who would pound his fist in frustration on the nearest metal object as a…

I’d be interested to know if Car+Driver had the vehicles fully charged, too. At the 80% charge you’re supposed to keep the cars for most operation, regenerative braking may have helped.

The NHTSA released their ruling a few weeks ago, so they’re technically already legal! That being said, there are some finer points of the rulings and some things that aren’t exactly 1:1 between the US and ECE standards. It probably wont be enabled on any existing cars, but I’d bet that 2023 model-years that had it in…

It’s fully electric (boogie woogie woogie) and fly-by-wire so I would go for a flight-sim yoke. You could control the throttle/brake with the pitch axis.

Better business case than LM ever had for it!

They should! They were capable of full manual operation.

I hope your commute doesn’t require speeds over 20mph or the desire to be seated comfortably while operating it! I also hope you’ve always dreamed of operating a vehicle by Atari Joystick!

If you’re in the area, try to get that Markforged. It was hardly used and is very impressive.

It wasn’t building them, it was safety/homologation. It’s ridiculously expensive to crash test and fully homologate a new-platform vehicle, and a lot of the geometries of the design weren’t quite up to FMVSS standards.
That was dodged that by selling them under kit-car regulations, which is why buyers had to show up…

I used to work for LM in their Arizona location. The auction for that location (what was left of it) was a few weeks ago- glad it didn’t get publicized. I got some good stuff from it. It was also fun as a former engineer to watch the mystery items get bid up speculatively, but to know how worthless they were- or…

I mean, in these market conditions he really should buy out his lease- if nothing else to sell it for a profit…

1st Gear: Woohoo! I’m in the middle of a headlight development with adaptive beams. Timing looks good for my headlight to be one of the first new vehicles on the road in the US with adaptive beams.

Tesla as an organization is pretty clever [citation needed] and if I were in their shoes, I’d offer a pared-down Model 3 only in Cheap-Appliance-White with none of the expensive self-driving sensors or fancy computers, shipping with only recycled battery packs and steel wheels (with the cheap plastic covers they…