What an amazing time to be a BMW driver. No longer are you short penis'd douchebags the biggest assholes on the road. Congrats you shitheads, and relish in running red lights while people are trying to turn left.
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I had a BMW for a long time, and i was really quite the anti BMW driver, at least if you care what redditors say. I never rewlly understood the whole car cliché thing, BUT, fuck me i hate tesla drivers. Somehow they are always on their phones. Like phone on their head, not with the fancy bordcomputer. And because they are always on their phone, they can't use turn signals. And even that aside, most tesla drivers seem to have a lot of trouble driving.
heir phones. Like phone on their head, not with the fancy bordcomputer. And because they are always on their phone, they can’t use turn signals. And even that aside, most tesla drivers seem to have a lot of trouble driving.
the tesl driver demographic really changed since musky started coming out as racist
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Because they are ugly, bad at doing things trucks do and made by a Nazi piece of shit.
They’re also bad at doing things a car does.
Oh and they might kill grandma.
And break your fingers.
And accelerate uncontrollably.
Cars do that.
If they’re made by ketamine addicted toddlers.
bad at doing things trucks do
I mean, it's a blingy vehicle that you wouldn't want to scratch up that you use to show off. But...
Most modern pickup trucks in the US are also not all that great at being a bare-bones, knock-around utility vehicle, which is what trucks were historically used for. The modern pickup is mostly more-or-less a luxury vehicle, not a workhorse. I'd say that it's actually not all that out of line with what's happened to trucks more-broadly.
https://smartautotips.com/the-rise-of-luxury-amenities-in-modern-pickup-trucks/
Once upon a time, pickup trucks were all about utility and practicality. They were designed for hard work on the farm or construction site, and the interior amenities were basic at best. However, in recent years there has been a shift in the pickup truck market towards luxury and comfort. Many modern pickup trucks now come with a range of high-end amenities that you would expect to find in a luxury sedan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siKi79rwnYY
The Death of the Small Affordable Pickup
I think that the lion's share of that is a broader change. The Cybertruck is just a particularly flagrant example.
You're not wrong, but due to many reasons, most of them cultural and political, most of them CAN still do normal truck things, assuming you don't need a long-bed, don't mind your very expensive toy losing its value as it gets beat up, and can fix or tolerate various frills failing over time. I am starting to see well-worn work trucks that were almost certainly bought used but would have been considered luxurious when new. There's at least a modicum of utility there that the chassis and motor can still have a second life as a truck after a few years as a grocery-hauler. There's also still one dealer near me that stocks row upon row of white Silverados with steel wheels and vinyl interiors.
The Cybertruck is very bad at truck things regardless of how you feel about its resale value, and at this point it's just a way for assholes with too much money to make their entire car a MAGA bumper sticker.
As someone who drives one out at the ranch, yep. I wish I had my old 70s model. It's nice to have the big bed for what I need, but it's missing all of the real stripped down utility I used to have.
I miss my '73 Datsun pickup.
When I bought my Tacoma I was horrified to learn they no longer make the "small one", and I was only bon Gen 2 of the Tacoma's. They've gotten even bigger I think
Tacoma's gotten big, and the new Ranger too, but Ford has the (slightly homely) Maverick and Hyundai has the Santa Cruz, which is basically an Aussie-style Ute. The Ridgeline is getting bigger too, but I think its guts are still a unibody SUV/minivan frame that should be pretty easy to live with.
I'd love to never need a new car. My Tacoma is 10 years old and still going strong. But I doubt ill make it another 30 or 40 years. I'm hoping if I do need another vehicle I can be in a spot for an electric. Maybe one of those tiny electric trucks
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This gif is so fun to analyze, in the show you only see the scene briefly so it seems just fine but the longer you watch it loop the more you notice the flaws that they could get away with in the format.
- Front wheels pop in and out of existence
- Horn on the top bounces upwards when facing away
- The antenna is always behind the bubble dome even when it should be in front of it
- Homer suddenly flips all the way backwards when the car is roughly facing to the right
- The entire scene is static except for the car itself and a single blink for Herb
- The spoiler slopes down when its on the left but up when its on the right
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Good. Fuck Elon.
Only Tesla thing I'll buy is puts.
good, you couldn't pay me to drive one of these monstrosities that scream "my personality is the color Florida"
I went back to find this post just to tell you that "my personality is the color Florida" has me cackling for several minutes now. I hope your day is as great as your jokes.
Congratulations, Elon. You’ve made John DeLorean look wildly successful.
At first I thought this was a Tim Apple joke but that's his actual name lol
Wait until you hear about Bill Pontiac!
Or the Chrysler brothers
Driving them can cause them to catch fire.
Gathering dust could also cause them to catch fire.
I guess better to just avoid the whole situation.
Hmm I wonder why no one wants to buy a nazi car
A swasti-car, you might say.
A Deplorian
IncEl Camino
Wankpanzer
I remember when he got everyone excited about them it was supposed to be this affordable thing. I think it was 25k for a base model? Now they're how much? And how poorly designed?
Good thing he got a government job, I don't think he was cut out for the private sector...
100k for this monstrosity.
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There have been other whacky vehicles that were rubbish, but they were often the projects of passionate amateurs, whereas this car built was by slaves.
The people building it thought was stupid, didn’t want to do it. The engineers saw it as a burden and found no joy making it work .
You can just tell .
I hear Molotovs are great at cleaning dust. Help out your local dealership if you can.
Theoretically the contents of these lots would be insured, so if there was a sudden unexpected fire that happened to destroy all the cars Tesla gets a cash payout, unlike if they just sit there where Tesla has to take the cashflow hit of having paid to build cars that noone will buy
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No wonder he's gonna force the government to buy a bunch of them.