https://www.theautopian.com/you-know-you-really-want-to-use-your-eyebrows-to-stop-your-car/

The Nissan Sakura 2025 is the best-selling electric car in Japan—driver assistance, auto parking, fast charging, bidirectional power, and acres of charm. The killer stat: It only costs $17,000. [Wired article inside]

Nissan Sakura 2025 Review: Price, Availability, Specs | WIRED

Electric cars are not yet big in Japan, making up about 3 percent of sales. However, Japan’s government has announced plans to increase the percentage of EVs and PHEVs in passenger car sales to up to 30 percent by 2030. For now, the Sakura, despite its diminutive length of 3,395 mm (about 11 feet), happens to be Japan’s best-selling electric car.

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Sadly, so far Nissan has shown no desire to sell the car outside Japan, although a few secondhand examples have ended up in right-hand drive markets such as New Zealand.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-suspends-taking-new-orders-model-s-model-x-chinese-website-2025-04-11/

Any other average miata/mx5/roadster enjoyers here?

::: spoiler spoiler On the first Sunday of spring, surrounded by row houses and magnolia trees, I came to a horrifying realization: My mom was right. I had been flipped off at least 17 times, called a “motherfucker” (in both English and Spanish), and a “fucking dork.” A woman in a blue sweater stared at me, sighed, and said, “You should be ashamed of yourself.” All of this because I was driving a Tesla Cybertruck.

I had told my mom about my plan to rent this thing and drive it around Washington, D.C., for a day—a journalistic experiment to understand what it’s like behind the wheel of America’s most hated car. “Wow. Be careful,” she texted back right away. Both of us had read the stories of Cybertrucks possibly being set on fire, bombed with a Molotov cocktail, and vandalized in every way imaginable. People have targeted the car—and Tesla as a whole—to protest Elon Musk’s role in Donald Trump’s administration. But out of sheer masochism, or stupidity, I still went ahead and spent a d

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I swear to god, every discussion/video I find online relating to Chinese automotive stuff is just filled with the most racist, vile, generalizing stuff imaginable. Especially true on

Anybody here know of any good sources?

Can anybody speak with confidence about the ending letters in a Manufacturer Part Number (MPN?)

The instrument cluster seems to have half way died in an old Jeep. I can find eBay listings for old instrument clusters for the same make and model. The pictures look the same as mine but there are differences in the MPNs listed and what my dead cluster has.

eBay examples:

• 56009727AC
• 56009727AD
• 56009727L

Current borked cluster: 56009727J

Would these all be interchangeable? Does the letter mean anything important when it comes to finding a replacement?

Kind of annoying bro hosts but USians are missing out on some crazy EVs

::: spoiler spoiler Tesla’s stock price continues to show volatility in early March trading, falling 0.9% in premarket activity after two days of gains. This follows Monday’s steep 15.4% drop that marked the company’s worst trading day in nearly five years.

The electric vehicle maker saw its shares rebound 7.6% on Wednesday and 3.8% on Tuesday. These gains came after President Donald Trump’s public commitment to purchase a Tesla Model S during a White House event with CEO Elon Musk.

Despite the recent uptick, Tesla stock remains down almost 50% from its mid-December record high. The current price hovers around $245.75 in premarket trading.

First-quarter delivery estimates are creating significant concern among investors. Wall Street’s consensus for Q1 sales initially projected around 430,000 vehicles. Recent estimates have dropped closer to 360,000 units.

This would represent a notable decline from the 387,000 cars Tesla delivered in the first quarter of 2024. Investors typically

We had the fire cybertruck and now the water cybertruck. Will we get one for each element by the end of the year?

Geo Metro XFi modifications took it from 56 to 75mpg