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Fair, but it’s not like they are hiring them directly they contracted with Eastern Air Express for services probably the only people who had say on the specific pilots is Trumps SS detail.  Not defending the couch fucker but this is on the pilot and company that owns the plane. Read more

One has to wonder just how the hell an automotive lifestyle brand founded by the late Ken Block wound up over a billion dollars in debt just over a decade after it was founded. Read more

Hoonigan got bought out by Wheelpros a few years ago, and then Wheelpros and Hoonigan merged under the Hoonigan brand. The brand we know likely did NOT have all that debt Read more

The actual Hoonigan likely didnt have anywhere near this much debt or business volume. They were basically a merchandise and media production company. The nugget hidden in this article is that Wheel Pros, a MUCH bigger company, bought Hoonigan last year and renamed themselves Hoonigan. The company that went bankrupt Read more

Hoonigan, prior to the merger, was a promotional agency masquerading as a t-shirt/youtube brand. They made millions on deals with big companies like General Motors, Honda, Hyundai, FCP Euro, Kubota, Black Rifle Coffee, etc.

Post-merger they wrapped the Hoonigan name around the company formerly known as Wheel Pros, so Read more

I honestly didn’t know that Hoonigan was anything other than a slogan or name. I associated it with Ken Block but that’s as far as it went for me. To discover it’s an actual business with $1.2 billion in debt blows my mind as much as those gymkhana videos. This might be part of their business problem. Read more

I still cringe when people (including news outlets and journalists who should know better) continue to perpetuate the myth that Musk is a founder of Tesla.
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Hmm I don’t know what country that flag is from but the women are gorgeous Read more

Yeah this always made sense to me. I do agree it was probably staged with the expectation that “we’re just not going to plan around it running out of charge and make that the downside” because at the time, that was indeed a HUGE downside! Read more

I also love that they are talking about a review of a vehicle that probably shares almost nothing with anything Tesla produces today. Like, why is anyone re-deliberating a product from the company’s infancy? What a strange thing to have such strong feelings about. Read more

In the review, Clarkson commented on the poor range of the car, which lasted just 55 miles on a race track, and claimed that it took an eye-watering 16 hours to top the battery up once again.” Read more

It’s real weird to for two people to confidently pontificate about an event that happened a decade and a half ago, which neither of them witnessed, on a TV show that neither of them were involved with at the time. Read more