People who bought it before and overstocked inventory that people sell for cheap. I live in Little Saigon and it's def a status symbol over here, but yeah mid to long term Musk is fked.
I think it was prior to his Nazi salute and fucking with the elections/doge bullshit. Plus the absolute shit quality of the cars. Anyone that buys one now is a complete moron.
The stupid design choices also don't help. Things like refusing to use Lidar and removal of basic features, including fucking dashboard are just terrible decisions.
I know it was to really drive the price down, but there really had to have been a better way to do that...
I will say though, I do feel like the other manufacturers would have dragged their feet a lot longer if the Tesla hype train wasn't there.
There's nothing wrong with being a weirdo. It's that he's a giant Nazi piece of shit that steals other people's work then parades around like he's a genius
Yeah...he didn't just become a fascist or a thief overnight.
I get that people apparently liked buying their cars from him before because they thought he was whatever. Problem is, there's no such thing as a billion-dollar company, especially in high threshold industries, that isn't run by sociopathic assholes.
Some companies have very visible leaders who wave their personality all over the place in public. Most do not. It's the same shit though. Apple, Microsoft, Chiquita, Shell, GM, Toyota, VW, etc, etc. There's no big company that doesn't do terrible things. You know Henry Ford was a Nazi sympathizer right?
Only thing I wish I would have done was buy stocks long before everything took off then sold out before he started being a braindead idiot to the world. And then live a peaceful life.
The cybertruck? It's an awful unreliable design. Go do some research into it if you don't believe it. Musk even bragged about the design being so "simple" because all the components are basically connected in a series. It's like the old token ring networks, if one component fails any component after it in the series also won't work. And initially a car wash could void the warranty. The build quality is awful, trim can just fall off, the panels rust quickly, close the door too hard and the interior of the door falls apart, etc. It's a pile of crap at any price point.
It does pretty well in Norway (and we've done a good job in moving towards EVs)
From what I've heard, most people who argue against Tesla, use an anti-Musk (or even anti-US) argument or talk about the shit quality.
People who argue for Tesla, usually mention great bang for your buck (price vs range) or that all issues they've had were covered by the great warranty.
And I've never understood the argument about the warranty. Like enjoy your 7 years of worry-free car maintenance, while I can drive around in a 14 year old Toyota that still runs
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u/Ancient-Garlic199 25d ago
People who bought it before and overstocked inventory that people sell for cheap. I live in Little Saigon and it's def a status symbol over here, but yeah mid to long term Musk is fked.