Back in the good old days, April 1 was a time when you tried to pull a fast one over on your nearest and dearest, if you remembered the date. But now April Fools’ Day has become a free-for-all for the biggest brands out there to play pranks on us,

Today is actually April 1 or April Fools’ Day, when it’s considered funny and appropriate for brands to post inaccurate information. At The Washington Post, we like to get into the spirit of the holiday by rounding up every corporate April Fools’ joke we can find and debunking them all in a humorless list. Let’s get started.

Day has already come and gone, but its implications linger on - let's see what happened across the automotive industry that was noteworthy