Some maybe good news for VW. Maybe Rivian engineering would be an improvement for them? VW has been floundering with electrics (and electrical) forever.
Small scale, anyone? I met the builder, Mark, some years back at his momâs 1/43 scale car distributorship in Costa Mesa. His specialtyâhis obsessionâwas (still is?) massive super-detailing improvements and modifications of Tamiyaâs 1/12 Super Seven, usually involving the use of his hobby machine shop. In terms of labor-rate, I wonder if two (or even one) of his efforts amounted to $20,000 worth of work.
Muskâs vehicle development strategy using consumers as field test-operators continues.
So nice weâre lacking a condescending âWhy didnât they read the manual?â subthread.
I just wanted to give a wee shout-out, since we see a few Jalopnik posts here, to the newish blog founded by several of the best former-Jalopnik writers (kinda like Defector is the new home for some former Deadspin folks)⌠The Autopian! Lots of the same kinda goofball automotive-adjacent content, but without the G/O Media herb horseshit and intrusive ads. Actually, since Jalopnik got sold last month, maybe the new owners arenât as terrible. No idea. Anyway, check out The Autopian if you havenât already, and youâre nostalgic for the halcyon days of what Jalop used to be a decade ago.
Example:
One afternoon the Goodyear blimp was cruising above our neighborhood, and made our pupper Kesha bark like mad. Mom waved and waved at it, and called me out to the backyard. The captain obvs saw us, and made the blimp circle many times while giving us The Complete Light Show. Kesha barked and barked, and we jumped up and down and clapped and waved.
Imagine our delight when its sign spelled out âGood-Bye!â just before heading back to the Tigersâ baseball game 
Oooh, now I have blimp encounter envy!
Useless and worthless, just like its daddy. Apple, tree, etc.
I was a little girl the first time I saw an edsel. We were on the freeway, and mom asked me, âDo you know what kind of car that is?â
W/o missing a beat, I said, âItâs so ugly it must be an edsel!â
One of the few times she was truly proud of me.
Cybertrukkk was made for one person only: Elon Musk. Itâs so very obviously Muskâs brainchild, something that only he actually wanted.
Everything Musk does makes more sense if you think of him as a 13 year old boy reading a 1980s Omni magazine with a flashlight after bedtime.
That pesky thing hovers over my neighborhood for a couple days at least once every fall. It is much louder than you might imagine, and well, annoying. 
The one we met was up high enough to not be loud. Just flashy AF.