News Roundup: A 2022 Tundra comparison, a Tesla racism lawsuit, and more
Including the evolving story of a Lamborghini, an Audi, and the argument over which one hit the other first
Welcome to our round-up of the biggest breaking stories on Driving.ca from this past week. Get caught up and ready to get on with the weekend, because it’s hard keeping pace in a digital traffic jam.
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The 2022 Toyota Tundra vs everyone else
This week’s top trending story focuses on Toyota’s new full-size pickup, the 2022 Tundra, and how it stacks up against rivals from Ford and Ram . Toyota’s half-ton pickup is offered in two different cab types, each with four doors and three bed-length options, similar to the options available on the Ford F-150 and Ram 1500. In the engine department, Toyota has played it more like Ram, with just two engine choices (both V6s), compared to the six engines on tap from Ford. This unceremonious dropping of the V8 engine (and diesel) was cause for concern and question for some, so we asked the executive chief engineer for the Tundra, Sequoia, Tacoma, and 4Runner at Toyota Motor North America to tell us why the axe came down on those power plants. Check out his responses here.
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Who hit whom? Lambo and Audi collide multiple times in confusing videos
It began with a viral TikTok video of a Lamborghini being hit from behind by an Audi. But it didn’t end there. The initial clip shows the Audi driver berating the Lambo owner, accusing him of hitting her car “from the front,” followed by a few seconds of what looks like security footage from a nearby gas station that shows the Audi making contact with the supercar. Then, however, a second clip posted by the Audi driver shows the alleged lead-up to the contact wherein the Lamborghini driver cuts off the Audi, side swiping it, and nearly hitting a cyclist at an intersection. Take a look at the video evidence here and give your ruling, because it’s going to take a few minutes for the actual law to catch up on this one.
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Original truck nuts: Squirrel fills Chevy with thousands of walnuts
A North Dakota resident has been fighting a nutty fight against a neighbourhood squirrel who insists on using his Chevrolet Avalanche pickup truck as a cold storage room every second autumn season. Upon returning from a weekend getaway this year, Bill Fischer found more nuts than ever under the hood and in the fenders of his truck. But while many motorists would be upset by the inconvenience, maybe even prompted to seek revenge on the industrious rodent, Fischer seems willing to laugh at the situation with the rest of us. He posted photos of the buckets containing the 160L of walnuts to Facebook , offering the entire “paw-picked” harvest for free.
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Tesla must pay $137 million in racism lawsuit
Tesla is being ordered to pay millions of dollars in damages to a former black employee who endured racist taunts and graffiti at the Fremont plant in California. A San Francisco jury sided with the former elevator employee, agreeing that the EV maker should pay up for their willingness to turn a blind eye to the hostile work environment subjected upon him. Tesla responded with a rare statement, claiming its representative was “at the defence table for Tesla every day during the trial because [she] wanted to hear firsthand what Mr. Diaz said happened to him” and that “the Tesla of 2015 and 2016 (when Mr. Diaz worked in the Fremont factory) is not the same as the Tesla of today.”
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Collector gets Lamborghini to rebuild original Countach prototype
The very first Lamborghini Countach, an LP 500 prototype built in 1971, was wrecked during a crash during testing in 1974. Now, nearly 50 years later, the brand has reconstructed the original for an “important collector” who asked for it by name and probably with a sizable stack of cash. Builders at Automobili Lamborghini’s Polo Storico took on the project, spending some 25,000 hours to recreate the first, hand-beating the metal, finishing it with a Giallo Fly Yellow Speciale paint used for the original Countach, and tapping Pirelli to update the classic Cinturato CN12 tires. It’s unknown what engine was chosen for the one-off. The car is currently on display at the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este in Italy.