Classic.
Spoilers
The TG wags overweighted the driver’s side to get it to roll without any real effort, but that Robins rolled pretty easily - especially with just a driver on board - is real.
Also, Phil Oakey is a dick.
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Yet, still not as ludicrous as a cybertruck.
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I think they also raced one up a mountain road in Canada.
And seeing Clarkson’s jowls squeezed into a helmet never fails to crack me up.
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I love a good running joke, so whenever there is a long static shot in that piece, I’m just waiting for the flying Robin to come crashing in.
Speaking of the ludicrous Cyber Truck, I saw a bright yellow one in Austin this morning.
Behind the wheel was an old woman.
No words.
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Saw an iridescent cybertruck today, it naturally had a giant Trump flag flying off the back and turned off on the road to Horseshoe Bay.
Here’s my shocked face.
This may be news only to me, but Ford is shutting down their F150 Lightning production line until January because of falling demand and excess inventory. That’s quite a contrast with the situation at the introduction.
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My guess is that charging infrastructure is the issue. Those trucks have massive batteries that take forever to recharge if you’re draining it every day.
Want an EV? Better get it soon or you won’t get the rebate. Not at all shocking.
It might be for a certain cabinet co-member in Trump’s new administration.
This might also have factored into Ford’s decision to pause F-150 Lightning production.
Maybe? From what I’ve read Ford hasn’t sold anywhere close to the amount F-150 Lightnings they expected.
Of course, I wonder how much of that was the reaction to dealers like the one here in Napa who raised their price $20-30k from MSRP.
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I saw a headline about the car dealers association criticizing the new Scout’s direct to consumer plan.
Yeah, I bet you don’t like it.
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The dealership model has to go. It was designed in the 1930s to free car companies from the burden of sales logistics so that they could concentrate on developing new models/technology. Nearly one hundred years later, car sales is pretty much the last item left on that pre-WW2 sales model, and everyone hates it.
Just turn the dealerships into service centers (which is where they make all their money anyway) and sell direct to the public. It’s no coincidence that the acronym for the dealers’ lobby group is “NADA”.
Electric cars require a small fraction of the service. Only downscaled (or maybe consolidated) operations can make it with a fully electrified automobile fleet.
Sure. But those shops fka dealerships can make their money servicing the buhzillion ICE cars on the road, and the occasional EV as necessary.
The dealership model ain’t the only sales relic from the 1930’s. Alcohol sales/distribution has stubbornly stuck with ninety year old laws that were passed in the wake of Prohibition. But talking about the number of state legislatures who are bought and paid for by alcohol distributors is discussion for another thread.
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Get Mark started on beer distributors.
Please don’t.
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I’ve heard so many good things about beer distributors.
Hard to imagine a dissenting opinion.
Huzzah for our good friends, the beer distributors!
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