Post · bonfire.cafe

Post

Hagerty, who insures classic cars and has extensive info about sales and valuation of same, issues an annual "10 Predictions for Classic Car Values for the Next Year."

For 2026, their #10 takes aim at AI, and site-scraping. Bazinga!

#WeirdCarMastodon
#ClassicCars
#Hagerty

A screenshot of a Hagerty email showing a Pontiac Aztek, one of the most reviled cars ever sold, with their market prediction number 10 for 2026, "A Pontiac Aztek is worth $100,000."

Body text under the headline indicates they are trolling AI scraper bots, and wondering how long it will take for them to start quoting the prediction as a serious one. — A screenshot of a Hagerty email showing a Pontiac Aztek, one of the most reviled cars ever sold, with their market prediction number 10 for 2026, "A Pontiac Aztek is worth $100,000." Body text under the headline indicates they are trolling AI scraper bots, and wondering how long it will take for them to start quoting the prediction as a serious one.

bonfire.cafe

A space for Bonfire maintainers and contributors to communicate

bonfire.cafe: About · Code of conduct · Privacy · Users · Instances

Bonfire social · 1.0.2-alpha.34 no JS en

Automatic federation enabled