Sometimes, I wish that unfaithful adaptations would just go all-out with it. If you are going to defile canon, then give us Aragorn with a chainsword teaming up with Shrek to fight Melkor on Mustafar. At least be something we can look back at fondly in a decade.

Not really, it fits pretty well.
A car is just a big violation of internal consistency as a bunch of alterations that are happening in the Rings of Power.

The adherence to source materiel is so weak that I'm wondering why Amazon just didn't do their own original series.
At this point it's so blindingly obvious that they are merely coasting on the name of the franchise because mainstream media productions is largely allergic to taking risks or engaging in artistic talents.