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Here at Modal, we're grateful this week for roads!

Here at Modal, we're grateful this week for roads!

Have you ever wondered what it would be like without that smooth pavement under your tires? What incredible views you'd miss out on without those winding paths?

Thanks to quiet EVs, like Tesla, we can cruise up mountain tops, ride next to ocean waves with the windows down, and just enjoy the sounds of nature.

#tesla #cruising #nature #electriccarsarethefuture #electriccars

In this season of gratitude... pause and give than

In this season of gratitude... pause and give thanks for the cars in our lives.

From old to new, the advances in the modern auto industry, especially with EVs and FSD, reach far past what anyone could've imagined!

Close your eyes, and imagine the look on your great-grandparents' faces as you hit 0-60 in 2.9 seconds then put it in FSD, and take your hands off the wheel! Priceless. 😁

Thank your car today for being your partner for better or for worse, in sickness and in health, and until the next new model comes out (#cybertruck)

#tesla #teslamodel3 #gratitude #ev #teslafsd #selfdriving

If you don't think these cars are spooky... you're

If you don't think these cars are spooky... you're "MAD!" 😵

If we saw one of these Mad Max Fury Road nightmares racing down the road on Halloween night, we'd definitely think twice about playing chicken with them!

TOP 5 FUN FACTS:

1. Imagine it’s sometime during the mid-1970s: a young doctor working in Sydney, Australia, is confronted by an overabundance of car accident-related injuries coming through his emergency ward. This inspired him to develop the storyline that would become the first “Mad Max” film.

2. It took over fifteen years to make “Mad Max: Fury Road.” Developed as early as 1998, “Fury Road” was set to shoot in 2001. But production was put on hold due to the September 11 terrorist attacks.

3. Hugh Keays-Byrne, the actor who plays the villain in “Fury Road,” also played the lead villain in the first “Mad Max” film.

4. It's only the second sequel to receive a Best Picture Oscar nomination without its predecessors being nominated.

5. As a teenager, Tom Hardy had a dog named Max, which was named after the original MAD MAX movie. The dog passed away shortly before Hardy was cast as Max.

Speaking of spooky cars, Stephen King brought a wh

Speaking of spooky cars, Stephen King brought a whole new meaning to the term "Full Self-Driving," in his chilling book and movie, Christine!

I don't know about you, but I'd much rather call up Tesla's FSD version than an obsessed evil spirit to drive my car by itself. 😈

TOP 5 FUN FACTS:

1. Stephen King named his possessed car “Christine,” after Christine Forrest, Day of the Dead, and Dawn of the Dead director George Romero’s ex-wife.

2. During the scene where Buddy Repperton and his gang destroy the eponymous car, they were tasked with trying to tear apart a real 1958 Plymouth Fury, and that wasn’t as awesome as it may sound. With shards of metal and broken glass all over, some of the actors got seriously cut up.

3. The movie Christine. ended up being the first movie to use the song “Bad to the Bone.” by George Thorogood and the Destroyers, which has now been used in countless movies and TV shows since.

4. Stephen King hadn’t yet released the novel Christine when the movie went into production.

5. John Carpenter, also director of Halloween, refused to attend Christine’s premiere, thinking his presence might be bad luck.

#stephenking #christinecar #christine #tesla #halloween #spookyseason #spookycars #teslafsd #teslafsdbeta

The Munster's Koach...who wouldn't want to rock th

The Munster's Koach...who wouldn't want to rock this car on Halloween night?!? Anyone think that the quirky chords in Fall Out Boy’s song, Uma Thurman, sounded familiar? That’s because it came from The Munsters' theme song!

How many of you would like to see Tesla, Ford, Dodge, Lucid, BMW, or Mercedes recreate this bad boy as a new electric "roadster"!

TOP 5 FUN FACTS:
1. The Munster Koach was designed by none other than George Barris, the custom car designer who made the Batmobile for the 1966 Batman series. Herman’s Munster Koach is actually three separate Model T Ford bodies, making the Munster Koach 18 feet long in total!

2. Grandpa Munster’s famous laboratory was made by special effects technician Kenneth Strickfadden, who, years before, had designed Dr. Frankenstein’s lab in the 1931 film Frankenstein. Look closely, and you’ll see it actually has some of the same parts from that classic movie.

3. The Munsters’ cuckoo clock looks a bit weird because it’s not a cuckoo; it’s a raven that shouts “Nevermore!” as a direct reference to the king of creepy, Edgar Allen Poe.

4. Fred Gwynne played three separate roles. His iconic Herman Munster, as well as Herman’s twin brother Charlie, but also a failed experiment named Johann who, of course, looked like Frankenstein’s monster.

5. Waxahachie, Texas residents Charles and Sandra McKee’s home is an exact replica of the Munster house, complete with a crooked weathervane and moving stairs. They put this monstrous property to good use every Halloween by hosting tours, and all funds go to charities.

#teslaroadster #tesla #ford #dodge #dodgecharger #lucid #bmw #mercedesbenz #halloween #spookycars #themunsters

As we scream into the month of October, Modal is h

As we scream into the month of October, Modal is highlighting “Famous Spooky Cars!”

We start with a classic throwback from Saturday morning cartoons – The Mystery Machine from Scooby-Doo! @teslamotors @teslamotorsclub @cybertrucksquad @cybertruck.official @cybertruck.official - How many of you would like to see a #cybertruck decked out like The Mystery Machine! No ghost or masked real estate investor could get away with the "Cybermachine" and Scooby-Doo in tow!

13 Fun Facts about Scooby-Doo:

1. Besides all of the TV shows, the show spun off into several TV specials, two live-action movies, 25 direct-to-DVD movies, and more than 20 video games.

2. Scooby’s full name is Scoobert Doo, and he is also 7 years old (perpetually).

3. Abbott and Costello were a major influence on Scooby-Doo.

4. Scooby-Doo's name came from Frank Sinatra's "Stranger In the Night." Sinatra actually says “doobie,” not “Scooby,” but Scooby-doo-be-doo enchanted TV executive Fred Silverman and it stuck.

5. Iwao Takamoto created Scooby-Doo's features.

6. Frank Welker has voiced Fred Jones for more than 50 years.

7. Casey Kasem voiced Scooby-Doo's Shaggy for nearly 30 years but exited the show due to his veganism.

8. ABC thought Scrappy-Doo was a "bad role model."

9. Jodie Foster voiced a character in The New Scooby-Doo Movies.

10. Characters from Scooby-Doo are found in amusement parks all over the world. Six Flags Fiesta Texas houses a haunted mansion called “Scooby-Doo Ghostblaster.”

11. Scooby and the Mystery Inc. gang are now apocalyptic detectives. In May, DC Comics released Scooby Apocalypse #1, with a revamped image for the gang. Fred looks like a hipster, and Scooby looks like a cyborg dog.

12. The Scooby-Doo universe is still expanding. In 2019, Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? —a new series that has featured a ton of A-list stars like Ricky Gervais, Mark Hamill, Sia, Kenan Thompson, and Halsey.

13. A woman with a Mystery Van of her own got into some trouble with the police in 2016. In 2016, when she was wanted on suspicion of violating her parole, police attempted to pull her over, but she slammed on the gas and led them on a high-speed chase through Redding, California.

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