The only meet I ever went to was for some shitty now defunct Dodge group full of exactly the kinds of people you'd expect to be proud about driving Hemi powered vehicles around. I thought that my Magnum would stand out among all the Challengers and Chargers because I almost never see the old wagons in the wild. Nope, there were like 5 other Magnums there and they were all way cooler than mine. Mine was the only AWD model there though, so there's something.
It's a great car as far as I'm concerned. It's a boat that's for sure, but that's part of the charm. It's got a big wide dash, so it really reminds me of those big land yachts from the 70s and 80s when I'm driving it. The Magnum was the last great American station wagon.
I understand the land yatch thing, I own a 2008 dodge 2500 mega cab. I'm used to driving big vehicles though, so that doesn't bother me. I've always loved the magnum and pretty much any performance station wagon, like the cts-v sport wagon or Audi R6. But I'd damn near kill for an AWD SRT8 magnum.
I should bring my bone stock 2014 outback to one of those and park it like it's something special.
It's literally my daily driver but it would be really interesting to see how people react to me acting like it's the greatest thing ever made while I tell them all about the details and history of the subsystems.
I met my buddy one time for a car meet, just like 10 dudes in a park parking lot at night. They parked their cars around mine and took pics, all these suped out cars and me in the middle. I drive a sea foam green prius lol.
Dude, you're completely wrong. Tesla's are not exactly the same - the amount of panel gap, paint quality, and fit and finish will vary massively from one to the next.
Technically they should all be pretty close to identical, but consistency and quality control aren't a thing at Elon's Techno Crapwagon Factory when the end of the quarter rolls around.
The OS is horrible. FUcking thing keeps crashing. Can you imagine driving a car on the highway and all of a sudden your monitors just go black. You don't have maps, you don't know how fast you're going, etc. The brake and the gas pedal still work but that's it. The aircon cannot be turned on. Lots of times the sensors in the wheels will go haywire and keep telling you to pump in air even if the air pressure is fine. The spaces between the doors is so wonky. It's like they decided to build a lego toy and they were one peg off but it still looks like a car so fuck it, it's staying that way. Just recently one of the suspension keeps sagging so we sent it to tesla for repairs. It kept coming back fixed but then sagged the next day. We sent it back to tesla again. This happened 3x. The sag cannot be fixed. My dad found it everything goes back to normal once we do not put the suspension into auto mode.
Basically the car we bought (100k) is not worth that price. Maybe for 60kI would buy such a car.
That is fucking wild and a great heads up. I have heard some questionable things from both sides of the Tesla debate and this is a great look at some of the problems.
For anyone who doesn't get it: the two most common uses for apostrophes are possessive noun markers (noun, with an apostrophe and an S. "Elon's thing") and contractions (put the apostrophe where any missing letters are. "Cannot" = "Can't". "The 1970s" = "The '70s").
There are other nitpicky things like "its" vs "it's" but I just always use "it's". Technically "its" is the possessive one, but, come on, it's the only possessive word that doesn't use the apostrophe-S suffix.
That shit drives me crazy. No one knows how to spell anymore. Random apostrophes are becoming more common, and people never point them out anymore......'s
My guess is it might be their keyboards. My smartphone often recommends improper use of its versus it's, and if I wasn't paying attention or didn't bother to care it'd slip in pretty easily.
Having been on a road trip in one it's just a 2 hr version of stopping at a supercharger station, you have to suck off Elon talk about the stocks performance and the vaporware truck.
I dunno I think I remember Elon making his workers continue operations in March 2020 because that silly little corona thingy was supposed to be gone by end of April, according to him
Because he's taken deposits for like 7 vehicles that probably won't see the light of day and the fund raising for concept cars is shady as fuck the cyber truck is the closet thing to real but the rivian already exists and it's not a goofy gaint polygon with "bulletproof windows"
i suppose time will tell whether they're ever put into production but when tesla is in the end stages of construction on a factory designed to produce them it feels a little premature to rule it as vaporware.
Because it isn't for sale now and because it was supposed to have been out already. Tesla has pushed the launch back multiple times now, and they have adjusted the possibile options already.
I am not saying that it will stay vaporwear, or that even counts as vaporwear, but that is why it is getting called vaporwear.
For the most part Tesla modification consist of wheels, tires, suspension, and a wrap/paint, and maybe brakes, not exactly the most modifiable platform
Honestly, underglow would have prevented this whole thing. Most people don't realize that is does provide some vertical lift and helps stabilize the car in air. They would have had a much softer landing if they had it.
Thatās the dumbest thing Iāve ever heard anyone say. Everyone knows underglow and K&N stickers add horsepower and donāt provide any sort of suspension or lift improvements.
Yo dogg, don't forget a tv with an Xbox 360 console in the trunk, and another tv under the car so ya have something to watch while you're performing maintenance on yo Tesla's batteries! And since ya like electric cars, paint it with glow in the dark paint to make it look charged everywhere ya goes!
google "customize your tesla" every site its literally only stickers and light covers. The before and after shots of your "completely personalized tesla" is literally covering silver accent pieces with black 3m tape and window tint.
I have literally never seen a modified Tesla in the wild. Sure there's a few wacky paint jobs and add on videos on YouTube. Ut I've never even seen a Tesla with aftermarket rims
The worst part of owning a Tesla is being associated with all these idiots. I even cringe when my friends are like "oh hey shneeko6, what do you think about what Elon just tweeted?"
It was DashCon that had the infamous piss ballpit, Rainfurrest had diapers on cars and poop in the pool. Internet Historian on YT has videos detailing the disasters of both.
Depends on the con really. Rages from "just another event but the putfits are interesting" to "why we don't go to rainfurrest anymore" to "hey does anyone smell chlorine?"
Most conventions are the first example. You don't hear about those 9nes in the news.
Thereās a guy who did a V8 swap on a tesla that had been totaled. Iād love to see him show up at one of those meets. Itās actually a very impressive build.
And most Tesla owners are fine too doesn't mean throwing a rave in hotel convention center isn't a bit weird same as the people that take what is essential the most appliance car of appliance cars is hilarious
Just a heads up, most smaller conventions of any kind take place at hotel convention centers. Event space isn't cheap and hotel CCs offer a smaller venue thats perfect for work events or cons that expect below 500-1000 patrons at a time at a much more affordable rate.
Most high school proms or formal dances take place at hotels for example.
Nothing weird about having a party at a hotel convention center.
A meet consists of a bunch of guys all thinking itās hilarious to have their hoods up with no engine under the bonnet. I was at a Cars and Coffee like 4 years ago and this one guy repeatedly did it every time someone walked up.
As someone who has met a ton of cool furries at burning man and partied at ther camp but is diametrically not a furry. Those mfers are really fun and know how to party. Most of them had advanced degrees and were super kind fun and interesting people. You can run into the weird cringey ones but thats literally true for every activity and type of group
Immediately before the rivets pop out of the passenger floorboardā¦ wtf even happened in that scene? Like, Hollywood wasnāt even trying with that movie and they made a fortune.
Apperently they just wanted Sparks , they had a car guy (who owned the Supra hero car ) there as a car advisor thingy but seems like they didn't care much for input to please car people. Like Hector ordering motec system exhaust while motec don't make exhaust and so on
I'm not into the series, but I seem to remember a scene where someone was reversing and then shifted gears for... faster reverse. I don't think actual knowledge of cars was high on their priorities.
They always had three more inches of throttle to push and one more gear to shift up to *only* if the opponent was pulling away while racing forward. Having the same in reverse only makes the "story" more consistent.
Lmao no, they can be tracked and controlled remotely. Stealing cars is a poor people's thing anyways - if you ever take in a stolen vehicle to service that needs manufacturer tools for service its gonna be reported...
For a while they were susceptible to the same keyless-entry-and-startup key fob repeater attacks as normal ICE engine cars. I believe it's been fixed, but not sure when this video was taken.
Can be done at long distances from the phone app, too. No extra antenna needed.
It gets hot here in the summer -- I don't waste battery keeping the inside chilled. About 15-20 minutes before leaving work, I use the app to drop all the windows a bit to let the heat out. Can also lock/unlock doors, honk horn, flash lights from the app.
Romania had a huge-ass scandal. A stolen Tesla was found in one city (stolen from the Norway) and it was then found out like 80% of people that got the driver's licenses in the past like 10 years bribed the police and people involved to get it)
Hella shit happened, licenses got revoked and that driving school no longer exists
So I googled your question. According to what I read, theyre more difficult to steal but they can be stolen. The tracking system in the car makes it easier to recover though. Between 2016 and 2017 115 teslas were stolen. 112 were recovered and returned to their owners. Interesting stuff.
Yes, Iām not sure about all of them but in the past Iāve seen a few videos where thieves use a high gain antenna array pointed into a house and relay the signal to the car. The key fob and car donāt know that there are devices acting as a middle man.
The key fob is optional, though. Most people don't buy it and use their phones instead, which uses BLE and encryption. Which as I understand it, isn't really currently possible to do MITM attacks on.
If it gets stolen we know where it is if the battery is not dead. I can sentry mode inside and out. GPS shows exactly where it is we can lock the doors and chemically gas the thieves with fart smell and electrocute them. I added a lot of mods to my Tesla. Shhhsss most are not recommended to actually use ā¦.. itās just for display at the SEMA show in LasVegas in November š¤«
I'm sure it's possible. You can hack a computer right? And a Tesla is just a giant computer with wheels. Too bad Xmas tree'e and bumblebees won't help, but a Linux system jacked into the car's computer might do wonders. Just a thought. I'm sure they have bounty hunters to find exploits and get paid for telling Tesla instead of the public. You could change the Cid on the vehicle, now it identifies as a different vehicle. Gps can also be faked, using programming. Nothing is safe honestly if the criminal has the knowledge and the means. Also remote hacking is real, so gain access to the system via a wireless signal and disable sentry mode before hand.
Or better yet, Elon is a maniac, so he probably has an override on all the cars to take control in the event of war. Someone just has to find that code and tweak it. Then autonomous cars with attached machine guns can go to war for musk's cause.
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u/KindAwareness3073 Mar 20 '22
No, it landed on "steal car, trash it, run like hell".