The Logical Conclusion Of The Race To Put The Biggest Screen In A Car: COTD

There is a tremendously annoying arms race in the automotive industry. Automakers seem to be competing with each other to make your driving experience more connected than ever before, with miles of screens, AI integrations, and even locking vent adjustment behind a screen. Clearly, there’s only one place this can go.

Thomas wrote about Bugatti’s silly television. DialMforMiata:

I never would have thought that Bugatti would be the first manufacturer to eliminate cars from its screens.

Sid Bridge:

Great, this is gonna make things annoying when word spreads around…

Ferrari: Bugatti made a TV? Let’s make the most perfectly function, highest resolution experience in a slim, minimalist package!
Lamborghini: Let’s make a TV that does what the Ferrari one does, but louder and more Italian.
Volvo: Let’s make a TV that won’t hurt anyone if it falls on them!
Saab: Let’s make a faucet!
Cadillac: Let’s make a TV that is covered in leather and automatically adjusts to the distance of your eyes and looks like a huge polygon!
Chrysler: Let’s make a TV that plays Fast & Furious movies as loud as possible and has a built-in beer cooler and shoot fireworks and shit.
Chevrolet: Let’s make a TV that will last a really long time but always have a shitty picture.
Toyota: The TVs are ready. They are perfect in every way. Our customers have already bought them and will use them forever.
Tesla: Our TV is the best TV because it can also power your house and we launched one into the moon and it knows what you’re thinking already and ignore that story about it killing that dude because he was using it wrong.
Citroen: The cool thing about our TVs is that the screen faces the floor and you lay under it to watch.
Jeep: Our TV has a shelf for your ducks!

DialMforMiata:

Morgan: Wot’s a TV?

Twobox Designgineer (multiple comments combined):

Rivian: Our TV is operated by voice commands only, and uses AI to figure out what you want to watch, rather than what you ask it to play.
Chevy Truck Division: Our TV can be configured in six different shapes, but the bottom is still too far from the floor.
Mercedes-Benz: Our TV blends perfectly with your décor by being disguised as a Billy Bass.
Slate: Our TV is a plain flat panel with a 3’ power cord and one HDMI jack. Stand extra. Coax input extra. RGB input extra. 6’ or 9’ power cords extra. Remote extra. Costs the same as an LG.
BMW: Our TV is high performance and flashy but don’t call it ugly! Remote control access requires a monthly subscription.
Lamborghini: Our TV sometimes and without warning will become a fireplace. Fire extinguisher not included.

Matt wrote about Volvo’s European delivery program. Canopysaurus has a great story:

Forty years ago this week I took possession of a brand new Saab 900 Turbo through a very similar program. I was stationed in Germany and had the choice of picking the car up at the factory in Sweden, including a hotel stay and tour, or having it delivered to the dealer in Frankfurt. Timing didn’t allow me to take the tour option, so mine came to Frankfurt, no extra charge. The car was full US spec with only the catalytic converter left off, wrapped in plastic in the spare tire well. I drove that Saab everywhere for two years and at the end of my tour, I took the car and paperwork to the Frankfurt airport and dropped it off. There, the catalytic converter was installed and it was delivered to port for shipment to the US. No extra charge. I picked it up in Baltimore a month later. All of this for $15,300, thousands less than the car would have cost buying it in the US ($18k-22k depending on model and options). Drove that baby for another 28 years and over 500,000 miles. I’d say European delivery is a great deal.

Finally, we stop at the Morning Dump, where Matt mentioned electrified vehicles coming off-lease. Dan Roth wrote an excellent comment that was probably longer than the story itself. Click here to read it.

Have a great evening, everyone!