Per the Cybertruck warranty:

"This New Vehicle Limited Warranty does not cover any vehicle damage or malfunction directly or indirectly caused by, due to, or resulting from…

… The environment or an act of God, including, but not limited to, exposure to sunlight, airborne chemicals, tree sap, animal or insect droppings, … water, contamination, lightning and other environmental conditions"

So, if you get all bricked up in the car wash, you’re now the proud owner of a $100,000 rust brick.

MotorTrend noted one middleman/dealership tripled the price on a very basic F-150 Lightning: https://www.motortrend.com/news/ford-f-150-lightning-ev-pickup-dealer-markups

Like, no product can survive that sort of scalper in the middle. Also, probably don’t ask a middleman to sell a new product and sell the well-established alternative to the new product. Recipe for failure, cunningly cooked.

Yeah, ditto. They’re stating June for final pricing announcement, and targeting “mid-twenties” for price atm.

They seem to like blurring those lines. As though the agents being in danger is part of the goal.

Makes you wonder, what government wants the spark to ignite the powder keg? That would be like packing the Reichstag with flammable stuff and telling a local arsonist about it – OH.

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I may be from a hive of scum and villainy (southsiiiiide!), but also I have jumper cables, so back up while I take care of this.

For me, it’s the social piece that gets me - I have to go get talked at by a series of increasingly greasier dudes until eventually I reach the apex greaseball and he tries to con me out of as much money as he can steal

It’s a terrible system TBH XD

I test drove one… They’re really really nice!

Personally, the used market has collapsed, but that’s also sort of a good thing if you’re shopping used.

Pretty sure you’re joking, but I am who I am, so I got to do the math.

Here, Edmunds has a really crisp infographic. By the Edmunds used car depreciation percentages, this Hyundai should be worth about ~65% of what it originally sold for, but instead it is being sold for half as much: https://www.edmunds.com/car-buying/how-fast-does-my-new-car-lose-value-infographic.html

Seems weird, right? My working theory is that EVs are being overvalued by the manufacturers with inflated MSRPs, and that the used market sort of reveals fair-market value in an unexpected way.

ICCU issue would be covered by recall if this unit was impacted. Recalls are listed on the Carfax, along with a repaired-already/not-repaired flag.

It has a single unrepaired recall… for a loose charging cap cover :)

I’m not a great automotive journalist, but I do try!

If you wouldn’t pay 1/3rd of MSRP for a car with about 1/2 the lifetime mileage left in it, you’re sort of proving why it’s newsworthy. A used ICE vehicle in the same condition would be snapped up with that pricing. Depreciation like that matters to folks when the product costs ~$40-50K new.

Yea nah the good parts of the pig, those they sell in far better cuts XD

Spam is all that’s left over but the squeal, and then, sawdust or whatever they use to retain the water.

This post goes so hard XD

I appreciate your unreasonable level of commitment to the bit 🫡

That’s right - I just read up on it so y’all don’t have to :)

It’s one of the many smoke grenades that create colorful smoke, the chemicals in a smoke grenade aren’t awesome, but it’s not CS gas or tear gas or anything that is specifically designed to hurt you.

Tough guy, LOL.

Couldn’t walk off that protected cat-walk fast enough. Threw a middle finger over his shoulder even though he was surrounded by his own retinue of armed guards.

Hilariously soft.

Quirk of the video - he has a high power flashlight under the barrel, I think. Illumination looks like flash, but the lack of “flinch” tells me there was no loud sound when we see it.

Oh and they didn’t shoot 6 random bystanders, which I’m pretty sure they would.

Yeah, lived here most my life, and while I’ve never gotten stuck where I needed the assist, I am that stranger with a shovel.

For locals to not help is deeply non-normal and inhospitable behavior in the Midwest.

If I stop posting because I’ve been sent to camp, just know… I did it for comments like this <3

Man that website sucks.

Bahaha, thanks!

Yeah, I’ve got you, I think these links should work, but no guarantees if you’re blocking videos or whatever:

ICE agents on foot: https://packaged-media.redd.it/u9sa49vepecg1/pb/m2-res_386p.mp4?m=DASHPlaylist.mpd&v=1&e=1768176000&s=152a9299299efcc51ccb72b9386e8ca476d6196a

ICE agent on foot solo: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ojwszrpcvhwuhl4nhwactd2y/post/3mc6ihtywic2r

ICE agents all getting stuck on the same patch of ice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8iWJkuVUG8

Most folks don’t buy self-driving anything. It’s about 12% for Tesla, and Tesla probably has the highest uptake rate: https://carbuzz.com/12-percent-tesla-owners-choose-full-self-driving/

For buying the base spec cars, Troy Teslike reports on that (i know more about Tesla off the top of my head, been doing research, their new average sale price has been cratering), and Tesla’s most popular models are the cheap ones. That’s important to folks like me because it kills profitability and so is newsworthy.

No judgement, that’s just the cards as they lay. I like knowing things, I’m a bit “special” that way, particularly for statistics.

Yeah, it’s a matter of taste on this vehicle being nice. Honestly? I’d get a lightly used Ioniq 6 for the same price, I like the Charger body shape, but if it’s equally fast, I think the 6 will be more reliable.

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