The car thread ...

[O Really]

And in the US, the gun would have been real and the couple would be dead.

[neoplacebo]

Not a car thing, but I saw this motorcycle chase from Brazil this morning....bunch of really close calls.

https://www.yahoo.com/autos/brazil-moto ... 00081.html

Thanks.

Another video from Brazil:

Brazilian Couple Beats Down Carjackers

Brazil is bizarre.

[Vrede too]

Brazil is bizarre.

That's what they say about us. Speaking of bizarre:
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Chechen warlord invites Musk to Russia after he’s filmed driving machine-gun mounted Cybertruck (with pics)

It's the warlord, not Musk, who has the weaponized truck. Sloppy, AP, sloppy.

Warlord Straight Out of "Max Max" Says Elon Musk Remotely Shut Down His Cybertruck



Technical Issue

... With it geared up for war, Kadyrov claimed that he'd sent the electric pickup to the frontlines of Ukraine, where it has since been "performing well in combat."

That is, until it stopped working all of a sudden.

"Now, recently, Musk remotely disabled the Cybertruck," Kadyrov wrote in a new Telegram post on Thursday, as quoted by Fortune. "That's not a nice thing for Elon Musk to do. He gives expensive gifts from the bottom of his heart and then remotely switches them off."

"That's not manly," he added. "We had to tow the iron horse. How could you do that, Elon?"

Puzzling Provenance

How Kadyrov got his hands on a Cybertruck is a bit of a mystery. According to the man himself, it was given to him as a gift by Musk, a claim he made in August and has repeated since.

But the Tesla CEO has denied this version of events in offensively-worded terms. Responding last month to a journalist's tweet criticizing him for supposedly making the gift, Musk wrote, "Are you seriously so retarded that you think I donated a Cybertruck to a Russian general?" Thanks for the clarification, Elon.

Our guess is that he'd deny "remotely disabling" the vehicle, too. If anything, Kadyrov's Cybertruck probably stopped working because it's a shoddily built piece of junk best known for breaking down all the time. Apparently, Kadyrov didn't get that memo....

[O Really]

I find it believable that Trump/authoritarian-loving Musk would give a "truck" to a Russian general. Whether or not he expected it to turn into an armed war vehicle, I don't know. But given some of the claims he's made about the rolling monstrosity, it would not be surprising for him to give one for a live field test.