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Dissing car brands is console wars for boomers (self.showerthoughts)
submitted 10 months ago by Skullgrid to c/showerthoughts
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Things like "Fiat stands for "Fix It Again Tony"" etc.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago (1 children)

either lemmy users are overwhelmingly born in the 50s or this thread proves that it's more than a boomer thing

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I see nothing but tesla disses on Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I recently saw a thread about a cybertruck getting stuck in the snow. Having lived in places that snow a fair bit, it's completely reasonable that the truck was having issues. By the comments you would think it was only a light dusting.

[–] dual_sport_dork 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well.

I own a 1999 Silverado. It has a manual transfer case, no traction control, no stability control, no terrain modes, and no trick electronic differentials. Its ECU probably has less computing power than your wristwatch. I have never gotten it stuck in the snow, not once in over two decades, even when the stuff was deep enough to be up to the axles.

I'm also certain the factory tires on a Cybertruck are not up to spec for mud and snow. They're probably low rolling resistance jobbies in an attempt to make the range less abysmal. That does not equate to soft surface traction.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

For sure, there's different kinds of capabilities. I'm not actually sure what the claimed abilities for the truck are, only that the amount of snow this person was trying to drive through was not unreasonable to have problems with, even in a high clearance truck.

I'm pretty sure you're right about the tires, which is probably the limiting factor for the truck. It's obviously not a serious truck, which is fine as long as you know what you're getting. I'd love to see a head to head comparison with the rivian truck.

Edit: I mean I could have looked first I suppose :P

https://youtu.be/cqAsNVSWYjs

Edit2: god trying to sort through these results is like picking through sensationalist trash