I’m sure the transport minister will be a friendly and impartial arbiter the day after 25% tariffs were announced on Canada’s vital-and-thoroughly-intertwined-with-the-USA automotive industry.

Bahaha, who am I kidding. But then, if there’s nothing to find, the Canadians won’t fabricate anything, they have a functional 4th Estate and the journalists have a way of finding things like that. Stay tuned.

Freudian slip, but it does low-key work as word-play!

Oh lord the news has him bricked up like a Cybertruck after a routine software update.

The company already owned the cars, boss :) Tesla the car manufacturer and Tesla the car dealership are both the same company, that single company is publicly traded under the symbol $TSLA.

Here’s the Canadian statute. Notice that the jail terms are vastly longer if the deception influence the stock market in any way. IDK, I’m not a lawyer.

https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-46/section-380.html

That unhappy little thought traipsed through my mind.

It’s like culture-jamming. By ruining the experience of selling EVs for other dealerships, Tesla can encourage the already rampant suspicion among other companies’ sales staff that EVs are unsellable or just not worth the hassle.

If Tesla gets called out for it, all the better. If they’re severely punished, better still! They can use those headlines to prove in other markets that they are the target of unfair investigations abroad, which helps the CEO’s political ambitions.

Yeah, the automotive chessboard is real confusing right this minute.

Hearing my pride and joy get called a third world country hurts pretty bad. But I honestly can’t correct you, our judiciary, something broke? Folks used to trust judges. I’m old enough to remember those days.

I’ve stood before a judge, got my ass handed to me, and I took the beating without complaint because everybody respected the judge (and let’s be real, I knew I did what I did, it was speeding and I am true to my name, I was absolutely speeding). Those days are gone.

Boss, you just described an absolutely bog-standard type of fraud XD If that is what occurred, people will go to prison.

The Canadian program also has, you know, rules. Rebates are marked as commercial or consumer. Every sales record I saw for the Teslas in question here, they were entirely consumer-grade from what I saw. So, if Tesla was selling the cars to themselves, they applied for the wrong type of rebate.

“Billionaires hate this one trick!”

I wondered the same thing.

Spite? Muscle memory, from when he wasn’t a billionaire? Or we might see a self-selection thing happening. The folks who have any point where they are sated, those folks, we never even notice those folks, they do good in business and never get public attention. Billionaires are only the folks where the chase broke some limiting factor in them, they have no satiation point, and so folks notice them.

Huh, interesting! In the USA, we just got these laws recently, but for protests only, and from the sound of the law, it will only be enforced for people the president does not like

His kid isn’t dead, she just doesn’t go by that name anymore, and it is supremely dickish to treat her like that.

Motorcycle helmet or full-face bike helmet. Problem solved.

What, folks are on me all the fucking time to wear one. If they want to complain that I’m complying, that sounds like a them problem.

Yeah, so… Let’s follow the money, right? This is how I make sense of basically everything in life.

Stellantis gets paid by SiriusXM for every unit they ship with this crap pre-installed. SiriusXM gets paid by either themselves, when they advertise SiriusXM membership to drivers, or they get paid by advertisers. The Mopar Extended Warranty, I bet Mopar is paying for the ad placements.

I’d bet dollars to donuts it’s the free trial for SiriusXM.

When this happened on Jeep vehicles, an apparent Stellantis employee responded on a thread about it. Here’s what they said:

“Thank you for tagging us and we are certainly sorry to hear of the frustration this has caused you. At this time, we advise that customers click the large [X] in the corner to close out and clear stored notifications from the vehicle. It should also be noted that ads are part of your contractual agreement with Sirius XM, but we are working on the frequency. Thank you for your patience.”

Lol, they still haven’t “worked on” the frequency 534 days later.

I think you’re exactly right

The market is already doing that for you - year over year sales for Dodge down 29% in 2024.

If the early fan reaction to the electric Scatpack are any indication, people won’t be lining up to buy it, so expect more of the same.

Get ready to hear that Coca Cola jingle every time you feel thirsty.

If you haven’t tried a second Kia dealership yet, I’d recommend that, too!

Give them your VIN over the phone, ask to schedule the repair under warranty. Might be able to save yourself the headache of going through corporate if the next dealership is less shady than the first.

That’s my assumption, that it’s some legal dodge. Like “we didn’t wire that light, so if you get in trouble for it, technically, you modded your Cybertruck, because we installed an inert lump of plastic and not an off-roading light. YOU installed an off-roading light.” That sort of deal.

The strange thing, all the other manufacturers do ship pre-wired offroad lights. There’s just something about the Cybertruck one that isn’t up to regulatory standard, I’m thinking.