Rudy Giuliani's Mercedes And Tesla Cybertruck Cosplay In This Week's News Roundup

Hertz is in a heap of public relations trouble once again as a location manager threatened to have a customer arrested if he didn’t pay a $10,000 mileage overage charge for driving 25,000 miles in one month. That’s a ton of miles for a car to rack up in one month, basically doing around 1,000 miles per business day. But here’s the kicker, the rental agreement was for “unlimited miles.” - Bradley Brownell Read More

Audi isn’t looking so hot. The company’s sales are flagging, showing a 16 percent drop in the third quarter of 2024 relative to the prior year, CarScoops reports, but the automaker hopes that its newest batch of cars will stop the slide. Having driven plenty of those new cars, there’s more to the problem than the car mix: Audi doesn’t give buyers a reason to get into the brand. - Amber DaSilva Read More

Tesla’s Cybertruck is selling surprisingly well. It’s outselling other electric pickups like the Ford F-150 Lightning and was also the best-selling vehicle over $100,000 this summer. Given the notoriety and novelty of the truck’s design, some owners think they’re sitting on an art piece that will make them a quick buck on the used market. - Lawrence Hodge Read More

Many of those in-the-know savvy car buyers know that there are often some good discounts to be had at the dealership lot if you have a Costco membership. I got a grand off the Buick Regal TourX we purchased back in 2018 for being Costco members. And that’s in addition to the often incredible deals on four-gallon tubs of mayonnaise you can find inside the store! For the next year Costco is offering up to $2,000 off the MSRP of a variety of electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles to help you save some dollars at the Costco gas station, too. - Bradley Brownell Read More

Like any community, the automotive enthusiast community has some factions and subsets that are more troublesome than others, and the latest battleground for automotive rabble rousers are street takeovers. Cities across the United States have faced weekly onslaughts of Chargers, G35s, Mustangs, Camaros, and other rear-wheel-drive vehicles doing donuts in massive clouds of tire smoke as rowdy crowds gather, sometimes leading to violence. The city of Cleveland, Ohio recently undertook simple yet drastic measures to prevent these dangerous takeovers: city officials created a dedicated task force that carved a checkerboard of staggered textured indentations in popular intersections. - Logan Carter Read More

We asked our readers earlier this week what automaker is the most irrelevant. The responses were surprising in one of two ways: it was a foreign manufacturer that I didn’t even remember sold cars in the U.S., or it was a domestic make whose best years are behind it. Without further ado, here are the most irrelevant automakers that readers could pull out of their memory banks. - Ryan Erik King Read More

Tesla has faced a lot of criticism over the Cybertruck due to it being a rolling disaster with a list of issues so long, it’s hard for even people trying to pay attention to keep up. Aside from the five recalls, the most infamous issue with the Cybertruck has to be when YouTuber WhistlinDiesel tried to pull out a stuck Ford F-150, which resulted in the Tesla losing its rear bumper, causing others to stop towing with their Cybertrucks. Now, the Cybertruck’s lead engineer has stepped in to give some guidance, saying, “The 11,000lb tow rating isn’t absolute.” - Collin Woodard Read More

Disgraced former mayor, lawyer and lackey Rudy Giuliani drove to his polling place this Election Day in the Mercedes-Benz 500SL formerly owned by actress Lauren Bacall. It’s the very same car he was supposed to have turned over as damages to the Georgia election workers he grievously wronged, but instead he hid the car somewhere in Florida. - Erin Marquis Read More

For someone the press once called “America’s Mayor,” Rudy Giuliani sure has had a fall from grace. He’s been disbarred, sued and is now a national laughingstock. He also happens to owe a shit-ton of money to Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, two election workers he defamed following the 2020 presidential election that Trump lost. A judge has since ordered him to turn over his property and valuables, including a Mercedes-Benz 500SL previously owned by legendary actor Lauren Bacall. Instead of complying, though, he’s reportedly hidden the car somewhere in Florida. - Collin Woodard Read More

For many, the telltale sign of a heavy-duty truck is a set of dual wheels mounted on the rear axle. Truck customizer Red’s Miami unveiled a unique dually Tesla Cybertruck. While I’m under no impression that Red’s produces shotty work, this project is the off-road equivalent of putting a time machine in a DeLorean. Sure, it looks cool but it still can’t hit 88 miles per hour. - Ryan Erik King Read More