Here's Every April Fools' Day Story We Made Up In 2022

If you follow us on social media or visit our website regularly, you'll know that we take April Fools' day extremely seriously.

Why, though? It's a question asked by many readers, though we do appreciate the many positive comments we received as well. To all of those we fooled: Sorry, not sorry.

It's the one day a year we get to make fun of an industry not known for having a sense of humor. We call out ridiculous marketing jargon and try to find the humor in controversial topics.

Mark Twain famously said that humor is humanity's greatest blessing. To not indulge in the one day a year we get to make stuff up would be tragic.

What we find surprising is how long it takes some people to catch on, but then we do go out of our way to at least make the articles sound believable. We wrote a piece on how the BMW XM was voted the world's most beautiful SUV and people were deeply offended.

Mainly because the DBX exists, and it's obviously much better looking. An SUV that looks like the pigs from Angry Birds will never win best-looking anything.

Our piece on the Tesla Cybertruck being canceled was sublime because we're honestly just waiting for Tesla to confirm it as fact. We included a sentence right at the end stating that a Tesla source "admitted this article is utter nonsense."

Oddly, most people seemed to be thrilled that the "cheddar wedge" (good one, Victor Smith) would not be going into production.

The next article had us worried about our address being published on the website. Making fun of Subarus is fun, but Scooby fans tend to deliver negative comments differently than lovers of other brands.

The Teslarati usually call you names (you would not believe how many synonyms there are for penis), but Scooby people take their rides seriously. They wrap a note around a brick and deliver a comment in person. As you can imagine, the turbocharged flat-four crowd was unhappy about an EV replacing their beloved rally-inspired monster.

Strangely, many people simply did not believe that Christian von Koenigsegg was teaming up with Rimac to build an EV. Koenigsegg's reputation for building insane mega cars is just too strong.

The news that the Corvette Z06 was being canned upset so many people. The article was completely fake, obviously.

We then added to the anger by claiming that it would go electric. Sacrilege. The comments section got so heated that it eventually included the words "commies," "Trump," and the go-to comment whenever we post something about EV legislation, "let's go, Brandon."

It was the same story with the Hellcat engine being replaced with the hydrogen-powered Hydra. So many people believed this article because it was so believable. If you read closely, you'll see the names in the article are a dead giveaway. We had Ivan Tobrakfri (a phonetic callback to a Queen song) and Dr. Mohammad Powababi, "More power, baby."

VW announcing that the Golf would be a crossover for the next generation was a clear gag but did not upset as many people as we thought. One reader did say that VW was now dead to him. In case you forgot, VW already makes a Golf crossover. It's called the Tiguan.

Finally, we had the news that Lewis Hamilton would move over to Red Bull. Most people caught on early enough, but we managed to fool at least two people. We did catch one person after a long day at work, and for that, we apologize.

As for the Hamilton stans, your driver will likely stay exactly where he is. His team just needs to make his car faster than an A-Class sedan.

If you still feel the need to let out some rage, please feel free to do so in the comments section below.