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If you were anywhere near social media over the weekend, you probably came across a viral video of a Tesla Model S soaring through the air in spectacular fashion before crashing into the ground along a residential street in Los Angeles. Well, the cops saw the video as well, and now they’re looking for the driver.
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The rented 2018 Model S was jumped at 12:10 a.m. Sunday at the intersection of Baxter Street and Alvarado Street in Echo Park, police said. After its launch, the Tesla hit two parked cars and some trash cans. The stunt was performed in front of a crowd that gathered following a Tesla meet that occurred earlier in the evening, according to YouTuber Alex Choi, who posted a video recapping the jump. The YouTuber claimed no one was injured in the stunt.
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A video published by the Los Angeles Police Department Central Traffic division on Sunday also shows several angles of the jump and subsequent impact taken by other bystanders who were at the scene at the time of the incident. LAPD said on Twitter late Sunday night it was swamped with tips, asking the public to no longer send more. The agency also tweeted it has narrowed its search down to a person of interest, identified as @dominykas on TikTok. The account published a video on Sunday with an angle of the crash overlaid with the words “i just crashed my new Tesla.”
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LAPD Detective Calvin DeHesa told Road & Track the agency has yet to confirm the identity of the driver or the renter, despite online speculation. DeHesa did confirm, however, that the LAPD is currently working with both Tesla and Enterprise, the owner of the car.”Nobody, from we could tell, has been injured,” DeHesa said. “There were several witnesses, as you can see in the video. Anybody that can come forward and actually put the driver behind the wheel, that was there, that saw it, that knows the guy; there’s a $1000 reward.”Jordon Hook, a musician who owns one of the parked cars struck by the Tesla, published a video on YouTube recounting the events of the night and detailing the damage to his Subaru Forester.”They came down here and hit my car pretty bad,” Hook said in the video. “They jacked up my front tires, my steering column’s all messed up, my suspension’s all blown, so the car’s done.”“Two of my neighbors saw them carry a cat out of the crashed car,” Hook told Road & Track.” One of them saw like kitty litter and stuff in the back of the car. They weren’t really being hasty about their getaway. They all jumped in other cars that came over with them from the meetup.”This isn’t the first time we’ve seen a person with a social media presence attempt to jump their Tesla at this exact cross-street. YouTuber David Dobrik did the same thing in his Tesla Model X back in 2020, though he wasn’t going nearly as quick.“It’s this trend thing,” Hook said. “Everybody’s like ‘Oh I could be seen by Elon if I do a stunt or a trick on this street!’ It’s just gotten kind of stupid.

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Ford CEO Jim Farley has confirmed the EPA range number estimates for the F-150 Lightning in a tweet after a Lightning Monroney window sticker leaked over the weekend.The standard battery provides a range of 230 miles, while upgrading to the Extended Range battery boosts that to 320 miles, says Farley.The Platinum model, only available with the bigger battery, can go 300 miles on a charge, likely losing some range due to larger wheels and taller ride height.Deliveries of the all-electric Ford F-150 Lightning are set to commence this summer, and now Ford CEO Jim Farley has confirmed the EPA fuel-economy estimates for the upcoming battery-electric truck. Farley revealed the efficiency figures in a tweet after the Lightning’s Monroney labels—the stickers displaying official information on new cars—were leaked on forums over the weekend.
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The mileage estimates have yet to appear on the official EPA website, but according to Farley, the Pro, XLT, and Lariat models with the standard battery will have a range of 230 miles. Upgrading to the Extended Range battery on those trims boosts the range to an impressive 320 miles. Meanwhile the Platinum model, which can only be had with the bigger battery but has a higher ride height and larger wheels, can travel 300 miles on a charge. Farley said that the Extended Range figures beat their initial target by 20 miles.

The estimates for the Lightning’s Extended Range models are on par with the EPA’s figures for the Rivian R1T, which currently is only offered with the “Large” battery pack providing 314 miles of range. The R1T and Extended Range versions of the Lightning match up on price too. The cheapest Extended Range Lightning, the XLT, starts at $74,169, while Rivian pricing begins at $79,500. However, Lightnings with the standard battery, which start at $41,669 for the base Pro model, strongly undercut the Rivian on price.
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Porsche has revealed this 911 Classic Club Coupe, a new one-off from its Sonderwunsch (“special wish”) customization program.The Classic Club Coupe started as a 1998 911 Carrera but gained the chassis, brakes, and engine from the 996.2 GT3.The interior was entirely reworked in black and gray leather with Club Blue accents, and Porsche added Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, and SiriusXM.Last year, Porsche launched Sonderwunsch, the resurrection of a 1970s-era program, and it’s dedicated to building one-off dream cars based on new and old Porsches. This collaboration bore its first fruit, a custom 911 GT3 with a Le Mans–winning livery, last fall. Now Porsche has revealed the latest from Sonderwunsch: the 911 Classic Club Coupe, drawing inspiration from the 1972 911 Carrera RS 2.7 and 2009 911 Sport Classic. The company worked closely with the Porsche Club of America on the project, which spanned two and a half years.
The Classic Club Coupe started life as a 1998 911 Carrera that the executive director of the Porsche Club of America found in derelict condition in Columbia, Virginia. The car was then sent to the Porsche Classic workshop near the main plant in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen, Germany, where it underwent a complete restoration and gained the chassis, brakes, and engine from the 996.2 GT3. That naturally aspirated 3.6-liter flat-six is good for 381 horsepower.

The car is finished in Sport Grey Metallic, with full-length light Sport Grey racing stripes outlined in Club Blue, similar to the 911 Sport Classic. At the rear, a ducktail spoiler protrudes between the taillights in a nod to the Carrera RS 2.7. The Classic Club Coupe also gains a double-bubble roof that, like the spoiler, was hand-built for this car, and rides on 18-inch forged aluminum Fuchs wheels.
Inside, the Classic Club Coupe is covered in black leather with Slate Grey and Club Blue accents, an Alcantara headliner, and a woven black and Slate Grey pattern on the seats and door panels. The “Classic Club Coupe” script appears throughout, and the car receives modern touches including Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, and SiriusXM. Porsche says all of the technical modifications were evaluated so that the car remains in compliance with U.S. regulations. Having been the customer for this factory restoration project, the Porsche Club of America has taken delivery of the completed vehicle, according to a Porsche spokesperson.
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Here’s the plan. First, sneak into the lot where the automaker keeps the expensive vehicles that it just built but hasn’t shipped out to customers yet. In this case, Stellantis.Second, find the keys stored in the vehicles, and, even though these are secured lots, smash your way through a gate or a fence and drive away.Third, do it again a few nights later. Just watch out, as police are investigating.Brand-new trucks are disappearing out of the parking lot outside Detroit-area assembly plants in a new twist on car theft—so brand-new, they are still in the custody of the manufacturer. Truck thieves have targeted at least three locations full of new vehicles in the metro Detroit area recently. The details of these thefts are under investigation, but the general plan seems to be that the thieves break into the lot somehow and then drive the new trucks away, maybe by smashing a gate or fence on the way out. A Stellantis spokesperson responded to Car and Driver’s inquiry about these news reports with a short statement on the situation. The statement said Stellantis is working with the Sterling Heights Police Department on the theft of several vehicles from a shipping yard that services the Sterling Heights Assembly Plant managed by a third party.”As this is an open investigation, the Company is not commenting any further on what vehicles were stolen or how they were stolen,” the spokesperson said.

According to an Instagram post by Metro Detroit News, however, at least 15 vehicles have been stolen in the past month, including new Ram trucks, a Jeep Wagoneer, Charger Hellcats, and a Jeep Trackhawk. Stellantis locations that have been claimed to have vehicles stolen recently include a lot in Shelby Township, the Chrysler plant in Auburn Hills, and the Jefferson Assembly plant in Detroit. At least four trucks were stolen from one location in a single night, including a Ram TRX worth more than $100,000. The thief driving one of the trucks quickly crashed the new car into a nearby semi truck before being picked up by a thief in a different stolen truck. Metro Detroit News said it can’t confirm if all of these thefts are connected, but there are definite connections between some of them. They claim that two high-end vehicles, including a $90,000 Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk, were stolen from the Stellantis Jefferson North Assembly Plant a few weeks ago and then, in an unusual twist, the thieves used the Trackhawk to go back to the lot and steal a Dodge Challenger Hellcat a few days later.It might be easier to steal these new vehicles than outsiders assume, according to a report by Detroit’s WDIV news channel that notes that Stellantis and its partners do use prominent security guards at these locations. But the automaker could possibly change a policy to make these new vehicles more difficult to steal.”Insiders tell us it’s really no secret that keys are put in these brand-new, high-dollar trucks and thieves sneak onto the property, somehow undetected, get into the trucks, and wait for the key moment to drive off,” Click On Detroit reporter Shawn Ley said in a video report.Thieves have targeted Detroit-area car factories as easy targets in the past. In 2018, for example, as The Detroit Bureau reported at the time, a group of thieves first stole a 2003 Ram truck, then used that truck to approach the Fiat Chrysler plant in Warren, Michigan, in the middle of the night. From there, they cut a hole through the fence and then drove away with eight new trucks that had recently come off the production line. At the time, there were questions about why the thieves could so easily steal those trucks and it was assumed that the keys were kept in the vehicles. Fiat Chrysler declined to comment on that policy at the time and declined again for this article, but this new wave of thefts will certainly raise that question again.
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