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Watching Americans drive bustedrides, like Cuba. Curator of daily #vanityplates at bustedride.com, over 2,000 unique #jeep #musclecar #mom, hundreds more


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For #weirdcarbs Chevrolet Chevelle Concours.

#theybroughtatrailer

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These were at a Home Goods and still felt very overpriced at $399.

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We spotted this wild "upcycled steel barrel" product line converted into "coolers" that are VW buses. With a cool $872 MSRP.

For the hippy who fell into a 7+ digit trust fund.

store.thinkoutside.biz/products/koo...

#weirdcarbs

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Do you ever just wish you had convertible Bentley money, but wanted to maintain that blue collar taste of your favorite Coney island?

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Spotted this Nissan Ariya EV sporting Michigan #vanityplate AR1YA

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It should have. And the defining question wasn't Pop.

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Detroit as F.

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No vape cloud?

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Oh yea #bustedride Of a Subaru WRX.

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A double feature for the #SAAB lovers #weirdcarbs.

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A #bustedride Ford Escape that had its drivers side front fender just flapping about.

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Better picture, and high confidence it had a vanity plate and yea we didn't get a pic.
#weirdcarbs

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We spotted a #bustedride RAM 1500 missing the box. And sort of a harlequin in process.

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This is the roughest example of an FJ we've ever spotted it has a busted pushed in rear bumper cover on the corner.

Outside of that it's like these FJs never age. #bustedride #weirdcarbs

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Still think they need to chop the ESV into either a giant commercial stake truck, or the closest they can get to cab in chassis.

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Pretty surprised they haven't made the commercial van into a truck chassis cab type skateboard.

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Everyone was trying to capture that Chrysler 300/Charger big sedan energy that was so Hot at the time. That's what this looks like.

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It literally is always the only photo used though.

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Glad to help. Also it's a pretty damn fine show....er podcast.

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Yes, this show is actually a podcast played to this image.

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Somewhere between pouring one out, and autocorrect we posted that incorrectly.

bsky.app/profile/bust...

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This dude was basically doing laps for giggles in his VW Bus.

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Still can't wrap my head around the fact that Oldsmobile has been gone for two decades. 😔

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Especially with their powertrain, or as they call it these days propulsion group HQ'd in the city of Pontiac.

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Before anyone snipes us, it turns out they do have other software jobs listed in various engineering areas. Their job classifications look like a hot mess.

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On the mechanical side it does appear that they have thoroughly benchmarked a certain EV company for fit and finish, and another for weight.

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We were impressed from the angles we could see, it wasn't totally rusted out, and smashed up. Pretty rare in those parts of Detroit.

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Remember when all Hybrids "had to be" this twist of green? Toyota Corolla Hybrid.

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Pour one out tonight. You know that this Oldsmobile Bravada is on its way to be scrapped.

Cardboard covering the moon roof which was probably blown out. #bustedride

At its youngest possible age this would be 20 years old, holding up the USA average age of vehicles. Could be 22.

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Also...with new VW America as UAW labor...this could go another direction.

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Huge news for @Rivian! @VW to invest up to $5 billion in the EV startup, helping fund development of the R2 SUV, while VW gains access to Rivian's software-defined vehicle architecture. www.reuters.com/business/aut...
🔌🚗 🔌💡

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It just smells like a Scout Motors play in the mix...

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Rivian is going to be just fine. Funny that they have Fords EU EV partner. And Ford sold out of Rivian.

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🚨🚨 help find this stolen KIA in Metro #Detroit 🚨🚨

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Didn't the red highlight models have push button starts?

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Brad Ysseldyke 's avatar Brad Ysseldyke @yssman.bsky.social
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Just rolled over 20k miles in my 2023 Maverick XL Hybrid I bought new in February 2023. Average fuel economy has been 36.5 MPG, working out to a per-mile cost around $0.11. Based on my last check, I'm still +$5k on trade in value compared to what I paid. Not bad, Ford!

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99% of peoples EV complaints were not present in the Bolt and Bolt EUV. Normal door handles ✅ Physical button controls: for HVAC ✅ for heated seats ✅ For heated steering wheel ✅ Volume knob ✅ CarPlay and Android Auto ✅ GM: let's ruin our model sales and branding by killing it early.

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Well someone out there bought a fancy Equinox EV RS.

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Coming from a road trip household..that's a great filter.

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The dread of having to spend time in the airport seems so much worse than stuffed into a car.

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Roberto Baldwin's avatar Roberto Baldwin @strngwys.bsky.social
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I recently drove 740 miles in a day and as someone that drives a lot of cars for a very long time, there's no way I could do that without stopping a few times. Even a recent 400-mile trek required a few stops. So when someone says EVs need 500 miles of range to fit into their road-trip life. lolno

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Is airline traveling really cheap though? We have no understanding how any average income small family could vacation via air. Seems like a conditioning for the antsy factor. Tablets and other entertainment options do seem cheap.

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Having said all that... We also travel via car a lot. Older and wiser us stop whenever we want. It doesn't add that much time depending on what your stop purpose is. Zero shame stops to literally get fresh air, walking around to rehydrate, get a meal/snack and cut down on hangry driving.

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We sort of understand the 500 mile range IF we are factoring in ONLY charging to 80% i.e 400 miles. When you factor in how long it can take to simply register for a charger + charge time/outages/in use we get it. Not to mention cost. Versus 400 miles and then L2 charge at destination cheaply.

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Waves hand *while cries in Michigan*

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Someone needs to investigate that a McDonald's had real butter on hand to even fill an order.

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