If my past and present auto ownership is any indication, I may be too old to drive by the time I own something made after 2026.
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If my past and present auto ownership is any indication, I may be too old to drive by the time I own something made after 2026.
That ain't Catwoman, that be Fatwoman.
I'm beginning to wonder who's really the ATF/.gov plants on this site. 
I know a bunch of guys who could do this in under two minutes.
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A LONG time ago, one of my cohorts was a real jokester. Pranked everyone he could. I went to the parts house for the crew one day and there on the wall behind our parts guy were some zip ties that were about 4 feet long, at least 3/4" wide and maybe 3/8" thick. I said I'd like to have a couple of those. They guy said I couldn't because they weren't on the req sheet. I told him why and he gave me 4.
It was several days before I could get the timing but I put 2 on his driveline and cut them so they would just contact the body of the F350 he drove. That afternoon, he was pulled over just down the road from the on ramp to the freeway, mechanics truck behind him. I pulled in and looked inside with them for a while and said it looks like he was in good hands and went home.
Next day, he accused me. I just laughed it off and went on, I didn't deny but I didn't admit either. I guess they would drive a mile and pull over and did that for 10 miles before spotting the zip ties.
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The best I ever saw was a guy that wired the horn to the turn signal. The guy almost got his ass beat for honking his horn!! HAHAHA
I've been doing it off and on at work to someone with smaller bells I got on Amazon. Zip-tying them to the underside of his van. I went to his boss ahead of time.. "Look if so and so wants to turn his truck in to the garage because of a noise, don't let him." and explained why.
Once a week I would add another one. He has tons of tools and stuff in the van so it's noisy inside and he runs the A/C all summer so the windows are always up, so while he wasn't hearing it inside, everywhere he went it, every bump he hit, it was sleigh bells. Eventually I added enough that he started to hear them, he mentioned hearing things to someone, so I took them off. The cow bell is now waiting its turn.
Forget about any new Vehicles, soon they'll only do what there allowed
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Everyone I know who has a Tesla loves the tax subsidy. Govt should not give the vehicle a subsidy. Many EV are sold at a significant loss. Now the car companies will want a bailout to keep producing them . Overall they do not sell. Long time on the lots compared to ICE cars. Govt should not distort the market. Thus there will be a subsidy for production and one for purchase.
This is why over 4000 car dealers across the country told the gov to slow the EV mandate. They are bullshit and don't sell
Tesla sales numbers:
Other manufacturers may have trouble selling EVs, Tesla does not.
It's also the most valuable car company. By a lot.
| 2018 | 254,530 |
| 2019 | 365,232 |
| 2020 | 509,737 |
| 2021 | 930,422 |
| 2022 | 1,369,611 |
| Q1 2023 | 440,808 |
| Q2 2023 | 479,700 |
| Q3 2023 | 430,488 |
Other manufacturers may have trouble selling EVs, Tesla does not.
It's also the most valuable car company. By a lot.
| CAR COMPANY | MARKET CAP AS OF OCT. 10 |
| Tesla Inc. (ticker: TSLA) | $801.1 billion |
| Toyota Motor Corp. (TM) | $244.4 billion |
| BYD Co. Ltd. (OTC: BYDDY) | $92.8 billion |
| Porsche Automobil Holding SE (OTC: POAHY) | $86.4 billion |
| Mercedes-Benz Group AG (MBG.DE) | $72.5 billion |
| Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW.DE) | $68 billion |
| Volkswagen AG (OTC: VWAGY) | $61.6 billion |
| Stellantis NV (STLA) | $60.7 billion |
| Ferrari NV (RACE) | $57.2 billion |
| Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (HMC) | $54.7 billion |
| Position | Manufacturer | Market Cap USD (AUD) | Number of vehicles built in 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tesla | $1.13 Trillion ($1.5 Trillion) | 936,000 |
| 2 | Toyota | $297 billion ($396 billion) | 10,000,000 |
| 3 | Volkswagen | $105 billion ($140.3 billion) | 4,890,000 |
| 4 | BYD | $97 billion ($129.5 billion) | 730,000 |
| 5 | Daimler | $75 billion ($100 billion) | 2,093,476 |
| 6 | Ford | $66 billion ($88.2 billion) | 1,905,955 |
| 7 | GM | $64 billion ($85.5 billion) | 6,290,000 |
| 8 | Honda | $52 billion ($69.5 billion) | 4,500,000 |
| 9 | BMW | $51 billion ($68.1 billion) | 2,210,000 |
| 10 | Stellantis | $45 billion ($60.1 billion) | 6,049,000 |
| Rank | Company | Market Cap (US$B) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Tesla | $795.8 |  U.S. |
| #2 | Toyota | $207.5 |  Japan |
| #3 | Volkswagen | $96.7 |  Germany |
| #4 | BYD | $92.7 |  China |
| #5 | NIO | $89.5 | China |
| #6 | Daimler | $72.8 | Germany |
| #7 | General Motors | $71.3 | U.S. |
| #8 | BMW | $54.2 | Germany |
| #9 | Stellantis | $54.2 |  Netherlands |
| #10 | Ferrari | $52.5 |  Italy |
| #11 | Honda | $46.9 | Japan |
| #12 | Hyundai | $46.8 |  South Korea |
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Government operates on the"Buy now, Pay later". This will continue until the USD crashes. At this rate, the crash is not too far away.
"We the People" have been warned, many times, over the past several years.
Did this to an apartment neighbor, 25 years ago. Guy was kind of slow. Went on for weeks, left turn on our street at five o'clock was announced. Finally asked a car savvy neighbor to look, wire was quite obvious.
Nice to see a country standing up against the religion of LGBT
A guy on our crew at work one time tied a roll of red barricade tap to the gf's truck and tucked it in the bumper. A fresh roll. The braided ribbon stuff not the plastic stuff that tears real easy. I think they are 500' rolls. He had a 500' gap behind him on his way home that day and didn't figure it out til he got there. He had about an hour drive.
He said people would pass him honking their horns and flipping him off and he had no clue why.
Bet a 308 puts holes through it like no tomorrow.
The fact that you realize your state of mind means there is still a spark in there somewhere. People without souls have no self awareness at all.
Cheer up buddy. Go rassle a hog and come back and tell us about it.
You might want to read the post that I was replying to.
I was in no way trying to "hate on Tesla"
Rather somebody was being a bit of a Karen whining about how Tesla shouldn't be allowed to have bullet resistant doors because "some bad guys might do bad things" or some such excuse. So I was merely pointing out that the government already has no trouble fully controlling them on demand if needed.
Dealerships are also crying about the direct sales model some companies are moving to. Tesla is first in the US but several, including VW, do it in Europe. Dealerships essentially become service centers only. No sales.
I know what some of you are getting for Christmas.
Proof that Christmas pre-dates that whole Jesus cover story thing.
Where's the black people!?
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