"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein)
02/22/2018 at 10:23 • Filed to: None
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"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein)
02/22/2018 at 10:23 • Filed to: None | 1
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I saw this Tesla Model 3 with no license plate, but some kind of piece of paper in the small terrible visibility rear window, on my way to work this morning. The closest Tesla not-dealership is in the Chicago suburbs, about 150 miles from here.
Madison has its fair share of Teslas. We’re the one hippie-ish town in an increasingly red state. There’s a fleet of decrepit Priuses running around town driving like the slow motherfuckers they are, but there are enough well off and environmentally-inclined folks here that when the Model S came out they started showing up pretty quickly. With the usual smug-ass vanity tags, of course. There’s one dude with 4C OF N8R for his vanity tag. Yeah, fuck that guy.
Anyway, at first I didn’t realize this Model 3 was a Model 3, because I was right behind it, but something about it looked a little off to me about the shape of the rear window. When the road widened to 2 lanes I merged left and saw, oh, it’s a Model 3.
It looks alright. Yet another swoopy-back sedan with a tall trunk and gunslit rear window, but I suppose there’s a bunch of cameras and shit to mostly make up for it. I’m sure I’ll be seeing more of them in short order. Maybe since the Model 3 is closer to being affordable for proles there will be less stupid vanity tags. I’m not counting on it.
Ash78, voting early and often
> Textured Soy Protein
02/22/2018 at 10:27 |
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4C OF N8R
Ralph Nader drives an Alfa? Sweet, I always knew he was a closeted enthusiast.
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> Ash78, voting early and often
02/22/2018 at 10:28 |
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I suppose I should’ve specified I saw that plate a few years before the 4C came out.
(“Force of nature”)
fintail
> Textured Soy Protein
02/22/2018 at 10:29 |
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Oh these will attract stupid vanity plates - the cultists love that kind of thing.
I am shocked I’ve only seen one of these things around Seattle.
nerd_racing
> Ash78, voting early and often
02/22/2018 at 10:35 |
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I was thinking they were just one of his lackeys. Force of Nader!
WilliamsSW
> Textured Soy Protein
02/22/2018 at 10:43 |
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Took me a few minutes to figure out that plate - yeah, fuck that guy. Illinois did an interesting thing that has almost wiped out the idiotic Tesla vanity plate market. They have a special electric vehicle plate (at a discount), and it *seems* to me (not sure) that you can’t get it with a vanity plate.
Is Tesla in a fight with the state? I’m surprised Milwaukee and Madison don’t have stores - there are a bunch around Chicago, including one five minutes from me.
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> WilliamsSW
02/22/2018 at 10:52 |
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Our dealer franchise laws are restrictive enough to prevent Tesla from opening any stores, or the not-store “galleries” where you can only look at the cars and then order them online. Tesla is pushing for a new bill to exempt electric cars from the franchise law.
Takuro Spirit
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02/22/2018 at 11:46 |
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I saw this Model S in Pewaukee/Waukesha last weekend, it had CA manufacturer plates. Maybe they’re up here doing some cold weather testing?
Or its an out of state car someone is putting a lot of miles on before they even get plates for it
MINIGTI
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02/22/2018 at 12:42 |
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I think I saw my first Model 3 on a carrier the other day north of Chicago. I couldn’t see it well so I’m not certain.