The same people who make rules about age and costume are the same people that give out popcorn balls and candied apples.

There’s something wrong with you.

Wait, did he lube it first? Or shove it in dry?

Sure, all things being equal, you’re right, stainless is better. But most stainless is unpainted. If it’s sitting in a field, not getting damaged by rocks and such, id honestly trust a modern paint over stainless depending on the grade. High grade stainless is great. That’s not what the cyber truck is made out of, though. Deloreans got rusty with stainless steel and they rusted without ever even going down gravel. To be fair I haven’t checked on the quality of the stainless panels in either car. But, you do know that the frame and components aren’t all stainless either, right? Also, don’t be mad at me, I’m enjoying this conversation.

Well that all depends. 17 years old and rusting through, I’d say you’re likely in a wet environment. Possibly near salt water. And it’s moving a lot more than one would while in a field, sitting. I bet you drive on gravel a bit, yeah? Doing that also makes wheel wells rust out faster because even minute damage to the paint will make it rust pretty fast. So from my point of view, sitting in an unprotected field, I would take the Corvette over a cybertruck. It’s a heavily painted fiberglass body over an alloy chassis. Honestly the more carbon fiber the car has, the more likely it is to be recognizable in 100 years. The point is, you’ll see badly rusted cyber trucks pretty soon because it’s actually quite a pain to maintain. Any dent or scratch will be rusted BAD if not rectified within 6 months or so in a wet environment, 18-24 if it’s dry enough.

Don’t devalue the Aztec for this. Yeah it was clad in tons of plastic and had a grill that was way too busy but it wasn’t shockingly ugly like the cyber truck.

I used to build stainless steel farming equipment for industries like fertilizers and such. The acidic nature of which, would eat through paint. Stainless steel gas to be cleaned of that “surface rust” constantly or that rust will transfer to the stainLESS steel (note: not stainPROOF steel.) 100 years in the elements and no vehicle would be recognizable. Especially knowing the reaction of lithium to water.

Best of luck! Stay safe Ukraine!

I saw Trek TOS and my brain went to the bicycle company having terms of service and was like wtf? But your comment cleared that up somehow.

And your model y is still twice the weight of my mx-5 will have double the depreciation, and won’t make it the 220-250 k miles without major repairs as mine. Who made the better choice?

And my heart wiiiiillllll go ooooonnnnnnn and onnn!

Yeah, million mile cars are rare, obviously. But to claim it’s reliable when you have to replace that much shit to get there is nonsense. It’s well known that they have issues making them unusable and cost ineffective in the long run.

I’m absolutely for effective EVs but I’m not going to suck the dick of a company that does so poorly, while sucking on the government teat and act like that’s a company we need. We don’t need 8,000 lb vehicles that’ll do 0-60 in 3 seconds.

Even Hitler liked dogs! /s… Kinda.

Super racism. Almost makes ya reminisce over just plain ol’ regular racism, right?

Are you seriously not reading the post? 1 million miles cost them more than double the cost of the car to fix shit. A 1 million mile Tesla with batteries and motors replaced can’t be compared to a 50 year old Volvo still running the same engine it was paired with. If you replace everything on the car other than the vin, is it even the same car? That Volvo is worth more than it ever was new. That will never be true of a Tesla. #s matching. If you have an infinite amount of money, you could get a yugo to do over 1 million miles.

Really? The one person that’s taken over 1 mill miles had to replace batteries and motors like it was their job. The vast majority are unwilling to do that. To call them reliable is a half-truth at best. Sure the EV1 was reliable, but it was much more basic. It was a true electric car, not a smart phone on wheels.

Motorsport is absolutely a sport. It’s not just the driver either. Just like any sport, everybody’s got a job to do and the better they work together, the better the outcome. Id call pool a “skill based game”. You don’t have to be fit to be a top pool player, or darts, or bowling. You’re comparing being able to replicate good skill dozens of times over a period of 1-2 hours where motorsport is using your skills constantly over up to 12+ hours depending on the race. Some are over the course of days.

I was in a medical unit. Almost entirely democrats, except the motor pool.

I’d say I hope Harris wins for their sake, but honestly I’m hoping she wins for everyone’s sake.

Agreed. I’ve never known anyone hooked on opioids despite the fact that I know 3 people with astonishing levels of chronic pain. 2 of them have POTS. I was on tons of Vicodin for nearly 3 years though the VA, and then one day they decided to throw a single bottle of muscle relaxers at me and that did the trick. The pain was gone. When I told them I was good and didn’t need the Vicodin anymore, it stopped and I still had like 240 7.5 mg of it left. Which I used for stuff like headaches lol. I was very lucky I never got addicted.