ford making mustang station wagon. Tesla says hold my beer.

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    To be fair, that's an appropriate reaction to a roach :bergman:

    A spider would only rate the Little Boy.
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    None of this is nearly as terrifying as a Carolina centipede. I hit one of those with a huge phone book and jumped on the phone book as it crawled away and the fucker still lived. My 300 pound friend was on the fucking ceiling fan as my skinny ass was battling for my life. It was his fucking house. I actually had wondered why he made a chain mail rope to suspend the ceiling fan until I sat it take his weight without bringing the fan down.

    The fucker planned for the centipedes leaving me as the speed bump.
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    That is what I thought centipedes looked like. Imagine daddy long legs length legs that are thick and move like lightning.

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    Like that motherfucker right there. They come up from the sewers and the fucking drains. They can crawl under doors and in your home while you are coming in. I have seen these things beat back cats who kill everything. Also, chemical sprays tend to take time to get to the main body because the legs shield them. They can skate across black flag at lightning speed. The onlyu thing I have found to be a death blow is a sniper shot from a paintball gun, but you had better hit the fucking main body or you just piss the fucking thing off.
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    Tesla’s Cybertruck has a serious problem that only a complete redesign can fix

    The article oversimplifies a few things, but I'm not going to get into the nitty-gritty details as to what parts of it should be tweaked. Suffice it to say that generally where their statements are wrong, it's over an issue that could be solved, but it complicates the production process in ways that aren't as economically viable as one would like.
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    OMG I actually saw one of the mustang station wagons on the road the other day.

    When you cannot afford to make a family abomination out of a porsche you pretend you are in a ford sportscar. At least it is electric so when the saltwater from the hurricane sea surge hits it then it will go up like a roman candle.
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    Is the battery really that expensive? Really what are you doing that is that expensive? Unless this is an accounting thing where they are including the cost of the machinery that is making the vehicles in their calculations, which means that over time that cost per unit is going to change because you amortize that value. This just seems like they are doing bad math to justify the expense of the cars so they can turn a profit sooner rather than later. They are not making money now, but in ten years if they are pushing units off the line and still using the equipment there would be a much different story about the present cost of the cars. What is the projected sales of these cars over time vs how long will their equipment be producing units.
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    If it isn't made of carbon fiber and safe to a depth of 4000 feet it is no good.
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    In Braille, that reads "Elon is a cockwomble".
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    How bad do you drive that you need this? I have pissed many many people off on the road. Each of the cars I have owned have large number of victim counts. I have yet to actually have a bullet hole in one, let alone multiple shots.

    Maybe instead of buying this overpriced bullet magnet you learn to use your signals, not cut others off, and get off your fucking phone while driving? Bulletproof is great, but I have never needed a bullet to crash another car. Just saying.

    I will say the cameras are a good idea so the police can catch the person who tried to kill you for whatever horrible driving you do. At least that way they know who put your car into the tree.
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    Designing a real car is just like in video games, right? You can just keep pouring points into Durability without compromising other qualities, right?
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    That seems to be the elon plan.
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    I really cannot wait for this ugly POS to be on the road. I have seen some ugly cars before but this thing is awful. If you drive this you just want to torture other people's eyes.
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    That is some very stable genius operations there. Are we sure Elon doesn't want to be the next trump?
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    Could we have a normal problem the electric ugly could solve?

    Not to mention if there is gunfire and bows and arrows flying everywhere I am pretty sure that is the apocalypse and gas is going to be around a little bit longer than electricity. Unless the cybertruck is solar powered it will be a shiny ugly paperweight in less than a day.
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