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I have a new Prius and my parents have a Tesla. I am very happy with my Prius but my dad is always trying to make me feel like I should have bought a Tesla and I made the wrong choice. Now he's scared to visit me in the city because someone might scratch a swastika in his car. So who made the wrong choice again?
Toyota >>>>> Tesla
Any day
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A former axis power >>>>> a country working on becoming one
I mean listen, show me a good auto manufacturer that hasn't been controlled by a fascist government?
are we counting pre-1988 south korea
Yes
Well, as of Jan 2025 that eliminates all American car brands.
Yep, (and even if not for him we did have Andrew Jackson once) German, Japanese, and south Korean are out too. Italy is doubly eliminated.
As of years before World War 2, Henry Ford was a fucking nazi.
He was indeed. I was referring to all the others.
"good" already did 😉
Yeah there are some good car parts made here, but then they get installed in the worst designs and build quality since 1970s Britain.
The Aussie auto industry when it was still going made some good stuff!
Australia isn't real. Its a joint Chinese-new zealish psy op to make Brits do a silly accent dometjnes
You mean Ford and Holden (GM)? I love the idea of utes, especially instead of to dozers we have in the US, but their cars mostly 1960s evolved tech, until they started sticking Japanese motors in some of the Holdens in the 90s.
Yup those two manufacturers, and don't forget the mighty Barra
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Barra_engine
Absolutely amazing unit those things,
The Texas factory is nearly twice as big as the CA one, is where the Cybertruck is made, and is the HQ of Tesla ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The new prius looks really nice. I sat in one recently and the headroom isn't great, but I'm 6'4" and I was sitting in the back.
I'll admit, it's small inside. But I'm short (5'2") and my husband isn't exactly tall (5'7"), and it's perfect for both of us.
Rode in a Prius 5 deep to a wedding reception and was kind of surprised by how much room there was inside ( first gen, I was one of 3 in the back) and the torque was impressive as well.
I still see a lot of them on the road , so the build quality is probably superior to tesla junk
The Prius V is spacious AF. Hopefully they make a new version of that as well.
I have seen Priuses with 700.000 km on their odometer for sale. Tesla drivers are lucky if they can reach 200.000.
Shouldn't the plural of Prius be Prii?
Priuses or Priusii
Normally a latin word ending in -us is pluralized by making it end in -i.
Alumnus -> Alumni
Cactus -> Cacti
Stimulus -> Stimuli
Prius -> Prii
There are Model S with over a million, but they also had multiple battery and drive unit replacements.
Meanwhile the OG Prius has a bulletproof engine and a broken battery can easily be repaired in your backyard with very little tools or knowledge required, barely more difficult than changing out a starter battery in an ICE car
https://xkcd.com/687/
Even without all of that you are better off getting the Prius. It means you don't have to deal with the utter nightmare that is Tesla customer support, It's always worth thinking about what happens when something inevitably goes wrong.
Plus of course you can always take the Prius to a generic mechanic. But they never have pants for Tesla's I don't think Tesla let them out. They are like Apple in that respect.
I get that you may be joking, but him being fearful someone may vandalize a vehicle in the city doesn't equate to him making a wrong choice. Imagine Trump starts locking people up for refusing to bow to him and your dad says to you before you go to jail, "well you made the wrong choice."
Now, him helping support a billionaire fascist on the other hand indicates he made a bad choice. Did he buy it cause he is a Musk fan, or cause he likes the features?
An unfortunate truth is that car manufacturers have been able to get away with doing very little. Tesla wouldn't have been as successful as it is initially if other manufacturers had actually implemented descent tech. Simple things like descent quality integrated cameras that record are still missing on almost every other car.
I would have loved a progressive to get elected and regulate the industry more to require car manufactures form some sort of working group to make various components an open standard.
If you bought a Tesla in like 2017 because you wanted an EV and are now just stuck with it because it's a worthless piece of explosive batteries and plastic and nobody wants it, I feel sorry for you. But if you bought a Tesla at any point in the last few years, then yeah, you deserve to be too scared to even leave your house knowing what sort of person you gave money too.
A Tesla bought in 2017 isn’t worthless or more explosive than an ICE. The cyber truck is wayyy more explosive/dangerous than the older teslas. My 2018 Model 3 is still going strong. Since I’ve already paid off the auto loan, there’s no point in selling it until it completely breaks down, which could be like another 10 years. No point in wasting money when Elmo isn’t getting any of it since I mostly use home charging.
You are describing fascist behavior. You're suggesting that people should be motivated to do what you want politically by fear of what your people will do to them if they don't.
Hope you haven't ordered any shit from Amazon in the last 8 years...
I... haven't
The fact that you need four paragraphs for a riposte is more telling.
My best friend has spent the past 2 years in Mongolia. He said all the herders there drive Priuses in the winter time when it is too cold to ride their horses. Apparently the Prius is the ultimate off roading vehicle in sub zero temperatures.
Even in the cities, almost everyone drives a Prius or at least something Toyota. Drop a streetview anywhere in UB and it's Prius-land as far as the eye can see. Also tons of them in Caucasus countries. But, weirdly enough, exceedingly rare in Russia. I still wonder why that is.
car brain seems powerful where these people live (I would assume the US)
Nowadays I only admit I have a Tesla if people ask. If they call it something else I’m relieved.
Don't diss toyotas the men in technicals will pick you up any day now
Back in the day you could call someone's iPhone a Blackberry to annoy them. Though in this case Steve Jobs is a nazi
Something tells me if he was alive today he'd be aligning with the Nazi party anyway.
He went whichever way the wind was blowing. Think Different. Like smell bad, wash your feet in toilets, and screw your business partner different.
Funny because "the new Prius" is 10x more of a flex than a Tesla, one of the most common, cheapest, EVs that you can buy on your phone
How do people know the name of car models, it makes me feel I don't belong to this world.
Same way we knew the names of dinosaurs I guess
Good god, this story is so fake that it hurts. It makes me cringe that someone would type this out.
The only thing that's missing is that everyone started clapping.
yeah people should stop adding the entire room being interested in random conversations to their fake stories. an entire room of people doesn't even listen to a fucking lecture that they paid for.
I read your comment out loud and everyone in my room stared clapping.
You we're alone weren't you? Maybe a friend or two?
Story's fake but the swastikas being painted on cyber trucks right now are real.
The amount of ThatHappened.jpg in this thread could blot out the sun.
What? Why?
Its a meme, chill.