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Related: California: 3 Dead and 1 Seriously Injured After Cybertruck Crashes and Catches Fire

Teslas are still safer than Pfizer vaccines, but just barely.

New York Post:

A speeding Tesla violently smashed into a sheet of rock and burst into flames on a Westchester County road Tuesday morning, killing the two occupants inside, officials said.

The horrific wreck happened in Pelham Manor near the Bronx border around 9:15 a.m. after the ritzy car zipped right through the intersection and crashed into the barrier. The car quickly became an inferno as local firefighters rushed to the scene.

The driver and their passenger were pronounced dead after the flames were put out, Pelham Manor fire chief Michael Greco said. Their identities were not revealed Tuesday night.

While it took about 20 minutes to extinguish the fire, firefighters were on scene for hours to remove the bodies and secure the lithium ion batteries that were strewn across the roadway.

This looks like it was driver error, not the botched fake “self-driving,” but a normal car doesn’t explode in flames due to a small crash, and if it does somehow catch fire, it doesn’t take 20 minutes to extinguish.

These “cars” are death machines. They burst into flames and just melt.

If you’re inside, you melt.

(Republished from The Daily Stormer by permission of author or representative)
 
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  1. Tesla sucks just like any electric or hybrid car. It’s a subjective opinion, but I like to drive, I consider myself a motoring enthusiast, not just a motorist. Auto transmission is just lazy, I want stick shift and a clutch pedal, or else the car is a point and click gadget on wheels, an app, not a car.


    Video Link

    • Agree: Passing by
    • Replies: @Wokechoke
    , @Carney
    , @Passing by
  2. AxeGryndr says:

    “The driver and their passenger….”

    What an odd turn of phrase. Did the driver own the passenger?

    Perhaps the alcohol in their bloodstream contributed to the blaze, which would be a possible explanation for the boneheaded driving.

    • Replies: @Tallest Skil
  3. Wokechoke says:
    @James of Africa

    Drunk Russian peasants! So that’s what they do with all the stolen Husquavanas and Stihls.

    • Replies: @James of Africa
  4. DanFromCT says:

    Looks like a suicide or heart attack.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
  5. anastasia says:

    Something very fishy about Elon Musk. Something very fishy about Zuckenberg, and Bill Gates too. Never looked into it, but it seems that Musk was not the true founder of any company he was involved with, except his first where he made 22 million dollars. Never looked into any of it, but one day I will. Genius? Certainly cannot discern that from any of his tweets or utterances.

    Were these people put in place?

    • Agree: Half Norwegian, QCIC
    • Replies: @A_Hand_Hidden
  6. Aragorn says:

    They perform the same purpose as Bill Gates WHO; to kill you.
    But you have not noticed that you are ruled by oligarchs and mad “scientists”, you vote for them 😉
    Its the church of satan.

  7. Solutions says:

    but a normal car doesn’t explode in flames due to a small crash…

    It says the vehicle was going 90mph and hit a stone wall head on = small crash = okay.
    Remember folks, guns kill people too.

    • Replies: @Truth Vigilante
  8. A Cybertruck had its battery punctured during a wreck. The blaze incinerated the occupant, otherwise he would’ve survived. Report said that the burning battery was half as hot as the surface of the sun and required some serious effort to put out. Bet the road was damaged enough to need patching.

    Ellon Musk is a stable genius.

  9. @Wokechoke

    LOL, you should see what drunk Brits got up to back in the day:

    Video Link

    Just Stop Oil’s worst nightmare!

    • Replies: @Wokechoke
    , @Carney
  10. …after the ritzy car zipped…

    lol this is fantastic writing; light-hearted with a touch of festive good energy! Pitch perfect tone when writing about trash taking itself out. I hope the rock is OK and am starting a Kickstarter to repair the big rock and return it to its proper size and color

  11. @anastasia

    They’re all intel & jews but I repeat myself. ANY filthy Goyim that creates a company that can be a threat to those that rule the US WILL be proffered a deal with the following options:

    1. Commit atrocities on video to insure you will follow orders issued by your handler
    2. Be bought out at the price proffered
    3. Be suicided
    4. Be destroyed & bankrupted by lawfare & lose company that way

    Reddit (founder suicided), Facebook (stolen), Tesla (hijacked) etc. Any company thought to be systemically dangerous WILL be absorbed into the Cabal by hook or by crook. Been going on for decades.

    • Thanks: Gallatin
    • Replies: @Carney
  12. Anonymous[257] • Disclaimer says:
    @DanFromCT

    Looks like a suicide or heart attack.

    Or maybe suicidal high-level consumption of cocaine and fentanyl before getting behind the wheel. Like the late Anne Heche.

    Part of her deadly drive was caught on Ring camera.


    Video Link

    • Replies: @Sharonbaron
  13. I’m starting to doubt if Anglin even watches and reads the things he comments on. I would hardly call 90 into a solid rock a small crash.

    With the large number of good reasons to oppose electric cars, you should stay out of the discussion if this is the best you have.

    • LOL: JPS
  14. roonaldo says:

    It was Tesla’s voice command. The driver, just wanting to have a bit of fun, said, “Hey, Alexa, let’s do a burnout!”

  15. Carney says:

    EVs, especially Teslas, are MUCH LESS likely to ignite than gasoline cars.

    Gasoline is used as a fuel because it is FLAMMABLE. Those cars are internal COMBUSTION engines; literally using explosions to push pistons and turn the wheels.

    Hundreds of Americans die in agony in gasoline car fires every year; fires that happen FAR more easily.

    Yes, EV fires are more difficult to put out, but they are much rarer. Batteries are not designed and intended to catch fire; things have to go extremely wrong. And the car can often detect in advance when that’s about to happen. Teslas have many times warned their occupants to pull over and get out – a chance at survival that gasoline car fire victims never got.

    Tesla fires get wildly disproportionate coverage because they’re clickbait. Years ago, conservatives hated EVs; now liberals hate Musk – either way there are many people rooting for Tesla to fail.

    Teslas are also very powerful and fast, but don’t make loud engine noise when accelerating, so EV newbies can end up going much faster much sooner than they realize until it’s too late.

    • Replies: @Gallatin
  16. Carney says:
    @James of Africa

    These new-fangled self-starting cars! My Model T makes me hand-crank start it, and all the whiners about getting your arm broken if you do it wrong just prove that they’re dumb and lazy. If you do it right, you get no fractures at all!

  17. Gallatin says:
    @Carney

    Tesla has the highest fatality rate of all car brands according to a study cited by roadandtrack.com.
    With all the safety features on a tesla, I think this speaks to their buyers as much as anything. Lead-foots apparently.

  18. @Wokechoke

    I was thinking more Harold and Maude 😁

  19. @Anonymous

    Wow, she looked fine. She wasn’t even burnt. They are lying. I think they killed her. I bet it was Ellen who sacrificed her.

    • Replies: @William H Bonnie
  20. Musk’s pajeet programmers can’t even keep his cars from accelerating out of control into brick walls, but he wants people to allow them to put chips in their heads.

    • Agree: Chaskinss
  21. Carney says:
    @James of Africa

    I’m all for fun powerful internal combustion engine cars … as long as they don’t run on fossil fuel and especially jihad juice.

    Just get a flex-fuel vehicle. Most car buying sites have that as a feature or fuel type you can search for.

    Here’s a list of the many makes and models up until a couple of years ago
    https://www.e85vehicles.com/

    You can run it on ultra high octane E85 ethanol which you can get any of these stations

    https://tinyurl.com/e85fillingstations

    And you can still fall back on gasoline if you have to.

    The Koenigsegg CCXR has a whopping 1,018 horsepower

    And of course you don’t have to go with an exotic supercar.

    Here’s a Pontiac G6

    Here’s a V8 Dodge Charger

    And a V8 Jaguar XJL

    etc etc.

    Or convert an existing “gasoline only” car to being an FFV. Just search for “flex fuel conversion kit” and you get a bunch of options. Just a few hundred bucks and you get to use ultra high octane fuel, higher octane than even premium gasoline.

  22. Carney says:
    @A_Hand_Hidden

    Eye roll.

    Tesla was not “hijacked”.

    Musk joined just seven months in when the company had a whopping three people. Musk was its first funding source and was chairman of the board, who personally appointed its CEO. He was closely involved from right when he came on board, and took it from being an on paper only hobby company whose original business plan of just commercializing the AC Propulsion Tzero turned out to not actually be possible, to what it is now.

    Were there big egos and big personalities and clashes among the various big shots who were at the beginning? Yes. Victory has a thousand fathers and failure is an orphan, so the other guys have tried to claim credit for the company Musk built from nothing. That’s nothing new, nor is it a sinister conspiracy.

    Sometimes I’m amused, sometimes exasperated with how conspiracy kooks are insanely resistant to visible facts, but dementia Grandma level gullible to narratives that anyone sensible would scornfully reject.

    • LOL: FreQuenSee
  23. Chaskinss [AKA "Septic Guirini"] says:

    more us empire swill

  24. @AxeGryndr

    It’s tranny normalization bullshit, that’s all.

    • Agree: Carney
    • Replies: @Carney
    , @eah
  25. Carney says:
    @Tallest Skil

    And before then it was feminist crap to avoid the grammatically correct defaulting to the masculine in singular pronouns

  26. @Carney

    Those are some fine choices of cars. I was trolling a bit, My own favourite is old-school mid sized saloon cars with four cylinder engines because I spent a great deal of my life driving those kinds of cars. Because of sanctions against the old South Africa we had to deal with expensive fuel before the West did, so most of the cars on our roads were European style economy sized vehicles, and lots of pickup trucks for their practicality.

    I have a 25 year old Japanese saloon with a 1600 cc engine, I love it to bits because it’s a very pleasant to drive and agile car despite its age. Very economic too. I’m not much of a fan of sports cars and SUVs. Traditionally auto transmission and big engines were considered luxuries here, but that changed gradually, so today the cars on our roads align with global trends. Not many electric cars because of problems with our electricity generation capacity.

    South African classics:

    Video Link
    A pickup truck is called a bakkie, Afrikaans for container or bowl, pronounced “bucky”.
    A modern VW beetle:

    Video Link
    Traffic lights are called robots, I never asked why!

    • Replies: @Carney
  27. Too much of a good thing, check out the gear levers on a Mercedes Unimog:


    Video Link

  28. Carney says:
    @James of Africa

    It saddens me to see a country’s culture and way of life shaped by austerity and deprivation, especially when that scarcity is completely unnecessary.

    And I’m not just talking about the sanctions against South Africa, which were ridiculous.

    I’m talking about how bizarre it is that for decades, generations, oil-poor states did nothing to break free from reliance on oil.

    With the enormous and notable exception of Brazil, which is not actually all that oil-poor. After the 1970s oil shocks Brazil realized what an enormous potential it had in its sugarcane industry to make alcohol fuel with, and it wisely required that new cars sold there be able to run on alcohol, and that filling stations sell alcohol fuel as well instead of only selling gasoline. At first, automakers under this policy were selling ethanol-only cars, but soon with the invention of flex-fuel technology, they were selling FFVs which hugely simplify the transition.

    Away from the tropics which can grow ethanol from sugarcane (and cassava and many other crops) and biodiesel from palm oil, the temperate areas can grow ethanol from corn and biodiesel from soybeans.

    And even countries without a large ag sector could at least import such fuels and undercut oil.

    And then there’s methanol with an M. Which can be made from any biomass (not just sugary and starchy biomass), such as wet trash, sewage, invasive and fast-regrowing plants that have to be culled anyway like kudzu and water hyacinths, lawn clippings, raked leaves etc.

    Methanol can most easily and cheaply be made from methane (natural gas). And it is MUCH cheaper and easier process to start from coal to make methanol, than it is go from coal to make gasoline.

    It’s trivial to modify a gasoline car to be able to run on any alcohol fuel. And even before the invention of flex-fuel technology, it would have been cheaper to make dedicated alcohol (or just methanol) compatible cars than it would have been to, say, try to use “wood gas” or crushingly expensive synthetic gasoline made from coal.

    Let alone for Japan to pick a fight with the Western Allies to try to grab Dutch oil or for Germany to invade the Soviet Union to try to grab its oil!

    South Africa has very substantial coal reserves, and yet never tapped them to make methanol. Imagine a South Africa were instead of having affectionate nostalgia for tiny efficient weak slow fragile econoboxes, you would have nostalgia for rip-roaring monsters swaggering about running on ultra high octane methanol.

    You know what else runs on methanol? Monster trucks like the legendary Bigfoot and Gravedigger.

    • Thanks: James of Africa
  29. each and every Lithium battery in a Tesla requires c. 25 acres of strip-mine.

    which is ecologically very unsound.

    • Replies: @Truth Vigilante
  30. eah says:
    @Tallest Skil

    No it isn’t — it’s normal English — here, use of the neutral their (note the second definition: his or her) could also have been done so as not to reveal any info at all about the driver, including sex, until next of kin were notified.

    And ‘defaulting to the masculine’ was never a matter of grammar — it was just a custom, one which seems to have lapsed, in part — regardless, use of their in this case was never, and is still not today, ungrammatical.

    You people are so fucking ridiculous.

  31. @Solutions

    It says the vehicle was going 90 mph and hit a stone wall head on = small crash = okay.

    Mr/Ms ‘Solutions’, you’re not likely to come up with a solution with your uninformed mindset.

    For every crash featuring out-of-control Teslas doing 90 mph, there are thousands involving them in low speed crashes with very minor damage (ie: damage that would be a relatively easy repair in an ICE vehicle, or indeed one where you could continue driving the Internal Combustion Engine car in most cases).

    But in an EV this ‘minor impact’ ruptures the battery pack.
    Within seconds this starts a chemical reaction that results in an intense fire, and countless Tesla (and other EV) owners have paid for it with their lives, as they were immolated before they could get out*.

    (*Once the battery ruptures, all electronic door release mechanisms etc, also cease to operate.
    So, if the driver is mildly concusses or dazed, bystanders who rush to their assistance are UNABLE to open the doors from the outside. This results in the EV catching fire fiercely before said occupant can regain their composure to unlock the doors).

    Meanwhile, everyone needs to watch the first 7 mins of this video titled ‘Proof Everyone Who Bought a Tesla in an Idiot’:

  32. @Haxo Angmark

    each and every Lithium battery in a Tesla requires c. 25 acres of strip-mine ….. which is ecologically very unsound.

    It’s worse than that. Watch this video titled ‘The True Cost of the Lithium Mining Boom Powering Electric Cars’:

  33. of course you slip a covidiot line in there but at least you said “pfizer vaccine” so you step up from “whatever, dumbass” to “not 100% wrong”.

    my favorite for any EV is still “flooded by saltwater? expect michael bay-level boom boom from your car”.

    https://theconversation.com/saltwater-flooding-is-a-serious-fire-threat-for-evs-and-other-devices-with-lithium-ion-batteries-240770

    funny how “coastal elites” buy into the EV = “green” myth when they’re the ones most likely to become salty lithium BBQ.

  34. @James of Africa

    Took a Tesla taxi once. The interior is as pleasant as that of a hospital. I prefer my Alfa by far. Looks better, sounds better.

    • Agree: James of Africa
  35. These “cars” are death machines. They burst into flames and just melt.

    If Tesla vehicles were held to the same safety standards as … oh, let’s say a latest-generation Boeing 737 … would they be deemed roadworthy?

  36. @eah

    And ‘defaulting to the masculine’ was never a matter of grammar — it was just a custom, one which seems to have lapsed, in part — regardless, use of their in this case was never, and is still not today, ungrammatical.

    Their, used in this way (which seems to have been widely adopted lately) is barely tolerable. At least compared with the awkward his or her, or the appalling his/her. The latter should be used only in connection with hermaphrodites.

    Furthermore the singular their is acceptable only when the sex of the person is unknown. When it’s known, good old his or her is appropriate. Not “the man stood up and went on their way,” etc.

    Sorry, eah, but our ancestors — not hung up on political correctness — did “default to the masculine.” Everyone understood that his included both sexes (back when there were only two), a simple and elegant solution that didn’t degrade the English language like our modern ideologues do.

    • Replies: @eah
  37. @Sharonbaron

    Study the pics in the link below, looks like Hollywood to me. The news lady said she was wrapped in a “white cloth” , normally we cover the dead as we all know, since we know she was alive shouldn’t they have been doing something? Anything? Naaa, lets just cover her up and let the hospital worry about it?

    Her hair and skin look fine and clearly her limbs are moving, but I’m supposed to believe her car jumped a three foot tall foundation and ended up in a living room? Oh yes, let’s not forget the impact and 200 foot high flames the eye witness reported. If this shit really took place she would have been broken into pieces and burned. Looking at pics of car with all of the fire damage to the front, there is no way in hell she would have survived but yet we see a blonde woman who looks a bit dirty and moving just fine.

    Also check out all of the crap inside and outside of the house, was the owner a hoarder?

    If you watch the entire helicopter footage the firemen are standing around on the roof with a few strolling in and out of the house. The news man keeps saying hopefully we have some survivors, if that’s so why are the firemen clearly in no hurry to get into the house and save people, the whole thing is ridiculous. We’ve all seen real fires on TV etc.. and firemen are busting their ass to get in and save people, these guys were just kind of chilling out with one firehose on the roof . You tube it if you never have, it’s wild.

    I don’t know, maybe I’m crazy but after studying this thing on and off for a while, it just looks fake. Maybe Ellen wanted her gone? I have no idea why any of this took place , but something isn’t right.

    https://pagesix.com/2022/11/14/anne-heche-estate-sued-by-woman-whose-house-caught-fire-in-fatal-car-crash/.

  38. eah says:
    @Etruscan Film Star

    I never said ‘our ancestors didn’t default to the masculine’ — in fact, I acknowledged it was a custom, one that seems to have lapsed somewhat, as customs regarding language and usage tend to do (albeit I still follow that custom myself most of the time) — as another example, when was the last time you heard a female performer called an actress? — I don’t recall, it was a long time ago — for some reason, they’re all called actors today, regardless of sex — not sure when that started, but when I was younger, all female performers were called actresses.

    Again: there was nothing wrong with the use of their in this context — grammatically it is fine — it is perfectly fine to say ‘the driver and their passenger’ when you do not know (or don’t want to reveal) the sex of the driver — if you want to follow the custom of defaulting to the masculine, then you can say ‘the driver and his passenger’ — it has nothing to do with accommodating trannies or whatever.

    I cannot make it any clearer than that.

    I honestly have no idea what the point of your comment was — except maybe to demonstrate your lack of reading comprehension.

    • Disagree: Carney
  39. @Carney

    “jihad juice” ?

    Your jewishness is showing.

    • Replies: @Carney
  40. @eah

    I never said ‘our ancestors didn’t default to the masculine’ …

    And I didn’t say the singular “their” is ungrammatical, although it occupies a gray area. It’s just bad writing (or speaking). When the subject’s sex is known, it illogically and confusingly turns a singular into a plural. Even the reader who is used to this new weirdness is likely to stumble briefly when encountering it. The flow of a sentence is interrupted.

    You are right that “actress” is almost obsolete, and while I see nothing really objectionable about it, one can argue that it creates a pointless distinction. An actor is one who acts, whether male or female. Similar constructions seem to be vanishing; for instance, “huntress,” once accepted readily, now sounds effete. And of course most occupations never developed an -ess option. No one was ever called a painteress, an accountantess or a dentistess.

  41. Carney says:
    @Not Important

    Islamists aren’t mollified by your hating Jews; Islamists hate you anyway.

    Over 70% of the world’s undrilled oil is in OPEC countries, with nearly all the most-desirable, easiest-to-extract, cheapest-to-refine stuff (light sweet crude) being in the Mideast.

    What oil we do have costs several times more per barrel to extract and refine than, say, Saudi oil, and would REGARDLESS of any green restrictions. That’s because our oil has heavy sulfur that has to be removed in refining, and is often in extreme locations like the high Arctic and under the bottom of the sea.

    That’s why unnecessarily choosing to remain stuck on oil as the only way to move is retarded; it makes artificially valuable a resource that our civilizational enemies rely on to fund not only their regimes but also their militaries, terrorist proxies, weapons programs, propaganda and subversion efforts etc.

    Unless basically all our vehicles are multi-fuel compatible, buying oil FROM ANYWHERE reinforces this monopoly and thereby props up the savages who’ll laugh out your “but I hate Jews too!” wailing and will slit your throat after making you watch them violate your family.

  42. Dammit, now my YT feed is clogged with car videos! Anyway, to me new cars, but especially narrative correct cars like electric or hybrid cars will never have the charm of old automobiles. See a local lad have fun with an old pickup truck:

    The Nissan 1400 has a 70’s style mechanical engine with basic electronics and no computer engine management, it could still be running a hundred years from now, dead serious.

    • Replies: @Truth Vigilante
  43. @Carney

    Quote:

    “Islamists aren’t mollified by your hating Jews; Islamists hate you anyway.”

    You don’t know what the Hell you’re talking about. I worked with an American-born person of the Muslim faith at a factory that manufactured aluminum wheels for cars and light trucks. We worked in the foundry; he was a casting machine operator and I was working as an electrician. He was one of the BEST workers there and would give another the shirt off of his back.

    I really think that you use these forums here to hear yourself talk. Most of your postings, in my opinion, are absolutely preposterous.

    • Replies: @Carney
  44. Anyone remember that time Top Gear built a backyard Tesla?

  45. Carney says:
    @Brad Anbro

    I said Islamist, not Muslim.

    And if I’d said the kind of stuff you just did, you’d screech I was a PC lefty Jew trying to destroy the West.

  46. I’m no Tesla fan, but that type of driving will get you killed in any car. They seemed to intent to run the intersection at 90 miles per hour without even realizing it was a three-way intersection and the road they were on dead-ended at a rock outcropping. You can see the moron driver trying to turn left at the last moment.

    • Replies: @Truth Vigilante
  47. @Carney

    Unless basically all our vehicles are multi-fuel compatible, buying oil FROM ANYWHERE reinforces this monopoly and thereby props up the savages who’ll laugh out your “but I hate Jews too!” wailing and will slit your throat after making you watch them violate your family.

    Even Blind Freddie can see that there is no more a bloodthirsty entity that is likely to slit your throat and sodomise your men folk, than those in-breds in the Apartheid Israeli state.

    And, seeing as those countries with the bulk of the oil (Iran, Iraq, Russia, Venezuela and a few notable OPEC/non-OPEC others) are in OPPOSITION to the Anglo-Zionist empire, the solution is obvious.

    We should DOUBLE or TRIPLE our purchases of oil/natural gas from these nations while ditching the countless billions in subsidies to those expensive/inefficient bird chopping wind turbines/solar panels/self combusting EV’s etc, that flush good money down a rat hole, whilst simultaneously enriching the Jewish oligarchs who own those industries.

    End Result: Energy prices will plummet and working class households won’t need a second mortgage to pay the utility bills and fill up the tank of their cars with petrol.

    This will be a ‘two-for’, in that it will enrich these nations that comprise ‘The Axis of Virtue’ (because they all oppose ZOG), while simultaneously impoverishing the Anglo-Zionist empire*.

    (*And the poorer the U.S and its snivelling NATO vassals are, the lesser the capacity of these entities to wreak death and destruction on the planet through their endless wars).

    Anyway, thanks Carney, my Jewish non-friend, for posting what you did.
    Since you’re a Contrarian Indicator’ (in that what you assert is invariably the opposite of the truth), all we need to do is implement a 180 degree reversal of what you recommend.
    This will yield the optimal outcome for the humane, peace loving inhabitants of the planet.

    • Replies: @Carney
  48. @James of Africa

    Good stuff Jimmy.
    We here in Australia also have quite a number of people here that love their 1970’s/80’s old school utes*, that have transplanted the original drive trains with some high tech wizardry out of Japan.
    (*What some refer to as utility small trucks, we refer to as ‘utes’).
    Case in Point: A Nissan FJ20 Turbo engine (from a mid-80’s Japanese domestic market Nissan Gazelle), fitted to an old Datsun 1200 ute running an 8.7 sec quarter mile at 246 km/h (153 mph):

    As for myself, I’m a Mazda rotary connoisseur from way back, having owned a variety of RX7 and other rotary powered cars over the years.
    Have a look at this 20B (three rotor) Rotary powered mid-70’s RX3 that runs a low 7 sec quarter mile at 184 mph (a tick under 300 km/h):

    Admittedly, it costs an arm and a leg to prepare a Mazda to do those times.

    But, in decades past, a lot of Aussies put second hand 13B Turbo Rotary engines (sourced from RX7’s) into old Mazda’s (or other rear wheel drive Datsun’s/Toyota Corolla’s etc, from that period), cranked up the boost, and had 600 hp (around 450 kW) on tap from a car weighing around 900 kg (2000 pounds), all for under AUD $10K (about USD $6.5K).

    Needless to say, with a phenomenal power-to-weight ratio like that, said projectile would leave any Dodge Challenger Hellcat Red Eye or C8 Corvette trailing in its dust over the quarter mile.

  49. @Ray Caruso

    I’m no Tesla fan, but that type of driving will get you killed in any car.
    You can see the moron driver trying to turn left at the last moment.

    But Ray, were they ‘driving the car’ or was the ‘Tesla driving them’ (into an early grave)?
    You see, more than a few Teslas in ‘autonomous mode’ have had glitches that resulted in cars speeding off uncontrollably.

    And, bearing in mind that anyone stupid enough to buy a Tesla (or any other type of EV), is an automotively illiterate imbecile to begin with.
    Almost invariably they are poor drivers that shouldn’t be on the road in the first place, and thus you have a recipe for disaster.

    FACT: No genuine motoring enthusiast would even contemplate buying a Tesla, let alone actually owning one.
    These Apple i-phones on wheels attract video gamers and nerds that never went through the enthusiast car phase of their lives during their teens.
    They have no hands-on understanding of how a motor vehicle works.

    Needless to say, they are the types that would panic in a crisis situation and be incapable of bringing their vehicles to a stop in an emergency.

    ALL of these fools (as well as anyone incapable of driving a manual transmission vehicle), should have their drivers licences ripped up and be banned from driving – until such time as they can demonstrate proficiency in that area (and/or execute a perfectly synchronised heel-and-toe downshift in a manual transmission equipped motor car).

    • Replies: @Brad Anbro
  50. @Truth Vigilante

    T-V,

    The billionaires in the USA aren’t rich enough and the government is doing something about it, by God!

    https://wallstreetonparade.com/2024/10/the-u-s-government-is-plowing-billions-into-spacex-overlooking-drug-use-sex-parties-and-elon-musks-coziness-with-putin/

    And for all you sports fans out there in TV land –

    https://www.fieldofschemes.com/

    Absolutely sickening!

  51. Carney says:
    @Truth Vigilante

    bird chopping wind turbines

    Wind turbines aren’t fans or propellers, you gullible ignoramus. What few birds are killed by wind turbines are killed by colliding with the support tower, and most of those were caused by the older latticework towers instead of the newer monopole towers.

    And even that number is insignificant compared to the number of birds killed by fossil fuel chimney smoke, collisions with windows, and especially the many billions per year killed by domestic cats in the USA alone.

    self combusting EV’s

    EV fires are more difficult to douse but are MUCH MUCH less likely to start in the first place. Hundreds of American die in agony in gasoline car fires every year. Legacy automakers frequently have to issue recalls for models of gasoline cars that just spontaneously ignite sitting around.

    Ford
    Pflugerville family experiences close call on Christmas eve after truck catches on fire
    https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/pflugerville-family-unharmed-after-truck-bursts-into-flames-on-sh-130

    Fire chief warns Ford drivers after wife’s car bursts into flames
    https://www.wkrn.com/news/fire-chief-warns-ford-drivers-after-wifes-car-bursts-into-flames/

    A man died when his car caught fire. It took a year and dozens more fires before Ford recalled the car
    https://www.latimes.com/world/africa/la-fg-southafrica-ford-kuga-fires-recall-20170117-story.html

    Chrysler
    2021 Ram truck owners encouraged to park vehicle outside due to fire risk, recall announced
    https://www.mlive.com/news/2021/03/2021-ram-truck-owner-encouraged-to-park-vehicle-outside-due-to-fire-risk-recall-announced.html

    Kia
    Park outside: Kia recalls nearly 380K vehicles for fire risk
    https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/national/park-outside-kia-recalls-nearly-380k-vehicles-for-fire-risk

    Hyundai
    Hyundai warns owners to park outside, recalls 180,000 SUVs
    https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/hyundai-warns-owners-park-recalls-180000-suvs-72945721

    Toyota
    US probing engine fires in nearly 1.9M Toyota RAV4 SUVs
    https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/nation-world/us-probing-engine-fires-in-toyota-rav4-suvs/507-af51d5ca-0fb4-40da-9cc2-4794ec4212d9

  52. @eah

    No one is ever going to believe your postmodernist historical revisionism. It’s just not going to happen. You are literally the only generation that has been taught this bullshit. Everyone else is still alive. We literally are not dead yet. We know you’re lying. You have an easier time lying about an era when everyone who lived there is already dead. But we’re not.

    Go the fuck away, you subhuman piece of shit. Your body integrity identity disorder will never be accepted anywhere. Your linguistic communism will never be accepted. Rope yourself like the rest of your kind.

  53. @eah

    I cannot make it any clearer than that.

    Translation: I am physically incapable of making it clear in any capacity. Because I don’t know a goddamned thing.

    It has never been acceptable to use plural in the place of singular. It has never been acceptable to use plural in the place of singular. It has never been acceptable to use plural in the place of singular. It has never been acceptable to use plural in the place of singular.

    Get it through your disease-riddled head, tranny. Nothing you say is even remotely accurate. No one has ever done this until jews conquered the West.

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