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[–] [email protected] 146 points 2 months ago (7 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I have seen Priuses with 700.000 km on their odometer for sale. Tesla drivers are lucky if they can reach 200.000.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Shouldn't the plural of Prius be Prii?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

The Prius V is spacious AF. Hopefully they make a new version of that as well.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The new Prius actually looks good!

The only Tesla that looks decent is the Model S.

Model 3, looks just generic, the 2023 facelift looks less bad.

Model Y just looks terrible, the facelift makes it even worse.

Model X, just what the fuck? Its like is a long car crashed into s wall in a world with cartoon physics, squishing it.

All Teslas I have seen also have two terrible things in common.

The headlights constantly blind oncomming drivers.

The indicator are WAY too subtle next to the headlights, here in Sweden we have a law that require headlights to be on then the car is on, this means that when I see an oncomming Tesla at a crossing I have to look straight at the headlights and try to notice a slight shift in the white balance, while being blinded at night.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The only Tesla that looks decent is the Model S.

Model 3, looks just generic, the 2023 facelift looks less bad.

Model Y just looks terrible, the facelift makes it even worse.

They all look almost exactly the same. The S I'm more familiar with because it's been around longer and is a noticeably longer car than the other two, but I'm not sure I could even tell the 3 and the Y apart!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah to me it's: big Tesla, medium Tesla and Porsche-ish Tesla.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I got a used model 3 after we found out he was an asshole but before we knew he was a nazi. I think the 3 looks great, even a little better than the S imo. The X is ridiculous. The only Tesla that's incompatible with a roof rack is an SUV? What a joke.

The headlights constantly blind oncomming drivers.

Yeah. One of the first things I did was disable the auto high beams.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Teslas genuinely looks like they were designed by a committee of engineers who looked up google images of sedans 5 minutes before the meeting.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hope you haven't ordered any shit from Amazon in the last 8 years...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I... haven't

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I don't think customers are responsible for the behavior of a demented CEO. That's meme-driven thinking that can't process the world unless it's simplified to GoodGuys vs BadGuys.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I read your comment out loud and everyone in my room stared clapping.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

disclaimer: I’ve been driving a Leaf for 12 years.

I used to think being snarky was only “powerful” in high school, but since people started living their lives on social media it seems to have become the new alpha-bro thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Story's fake but the swastikas being painted on cyber trucks right now are real.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

Oh, so it's like a Prius, but it can't run off gas?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Back in the day you could call someone's iPhone a Blackberry to annoy them. Though in this case Steve Jobs is a nazi

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Something tells me if he was alive today he'd be aligning with the Nazi party anyway.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

He went whichever way the wind was blowing. Think Different. Like smell bad, wash your feet in toilets, and screw your business partner different.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

car brain seems powerful where these people live (I would assume the US)

YOU WOULDN'T MISNAME A CAR

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The amount of ThatHappened.jpg in this thread could blot out the sun.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Like 90% of these types of stories you see on the Internet are little mind fantasies. They imagine that's what would happen if they actually said those things. They never actually did.

I would feel very comfortable betting money that most of the these are complete bullshit or at the very minimum a sharp deviation from what actually happened when they said their little line lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Its a meme, chill.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Nowadays I only admit I have a Tesla if people ask. If they call it something else I’m relieved.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Don't diss toyotas the men in technicals will pick you up any day now

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How do people know the name of car models, it makes me feel I don't belong to this world.

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