Hard to feel sorry for anyone actively putting money in Tesla/Musk's pocket @ this point
this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2023
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I still don't get why people buy Tesla products. You know what they're like now. What are you doing?
As a Swede who don't really care about cars (wouldn't own one if it wasn't necessary for where I live and what I do for work), and hadn't kept up with Musk, or Tesla overall, I simply just test drove electric vehicles until I found one that fit my needs, and that was the model 3. This was a few years ago, and I will never buy a Tesla again.
I actually still like the car, but I feel embarrassed driving it around now that I know more about the company and Musk...
Not in a financial position to change car atm, but if I was, I'd definitely go for an Ioniq 6 this time around.
Personally, I'd never buy a Tesla because of how much of a pain they are to get repaired. Have to go to their service centers. You can't just go to some local repair place.
The nearest local center to me is about a 2-hour drive away. So firstly the car needs to function enough to actually get to the repair center, and then secondly I'm stuck there until they fix the car or I get a pickup to come home. Meanwhile, practically every other car I can just take to a local place and walk back home in 10 minutes.
I will say that where you live makes a huge difference for this. I’m in a major metro area and I’ve never had to take it to a service center; they always come to my house. Having pretty much always lived here, I can’t really speak for living more rurally or even small-town but I’d guess there are other concessions one would make living there (just as we make concessions with our traffic, COL and distance to open space). But in this case it definitely hurts adoption from those areas.
same, i actually love the car it's been super reliable and it's fun to drive. But having Musk rats dirty image attached to it makes me cringe every time i look at it.
I'm just hoping he somehow leaves Tesla and we can wash it clean somehow.
But as it stands ill never buy another Tesla.
Please don't associate muskrats with musk. Muskrats are cute!
fair point.
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Why doesn't a Tesla smell like a new car? Because it has an Elon musk. (From dad joke lemmy a couple days ago)
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how is this even legal? I don't think this would ever fly in europe.
I think they can’t even sell the cyber truck in Europe
They absolutely can't. This pedestrian murder machine will never be legal in Europe.
thank fucking god.
Ofc it wouldn't. It's very illegal, but Tesla knows this. They're using it as a threat to control what the buyers should do.
And also, you have rights in the EU. You can't sue people as a multi mega corp for nothing.
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It's legal if it's in the sales contract. Usually there is a timeframe.
You should look into Ferrari and their rules. They are even crazier than Tesla for things like this.
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after submitting a $122,135 order
The buyer told us that he paid a $250 order fee on Friday and previously paid a $100 reservation fee.
Tesla doesn't have to refund those types of fees if a buyer cancels
You have to pay $350 to get the privilege to fork over a hundred and twenty grand? My jaw literally dropped.
You forget we live in a society where we have bought tickets and raffles for the chance of being able to buy Air Jordans or Yeezys or w/e fuck shoe that did that.
Actually, I missed that. And I'd rather go back to unknowing it. Shoe shopping is a chore, not a prize.
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Man, stop linking to twitx
Shitter
That is absolute gold right there
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Anybody buying one of these clown cars deserves all the bad that comes with it.
Are you able to return it if you dislike, or are you just fucked?
If I remember correctly, you must let Tesla buy it back rather than reselling.
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Tesla is hot garbage. This “truck” is proof.
The whole Tesla truck thing really reminds me of the DMC DeLorean fiasco. Is musk imitating John DeLorean? He's falling about as fast. Both are silver and look weird.
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“You won’t own anything, and you’ll like it.”
Just throw this shit up on Rocket League and end the line already. I think I already have those wheels.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Tesla has revived a contract clause that says the electric carmaker could sue Cybertruck buyers for $50,000 or more if they resell during their first year of ownership.
As we reported a month ago, the Cybertruck-only clause was added to the public version of Tesla's Motor Vehicle Order Agreement Terms & Conditions and then deleted after the lawsuit threat attracted some attention.
The clause says Cybertruck buyers must offer the car back to Tesla at a reduced price before any attempt to resell the vehicle within one year of delivery.
"You agree that in the event you breach this provision, or Tesla has reasonable belief that you are about to breach this provision, Tesla may seek injunctive relief to prevent the transfer of title of the Vehicle or demand liquidated damages from you in the amount of $50,000 or the value received as consideration for the sale or transfer, whichever is greater.
People who made early Cybertruck reservations received their invitations to order the limited-availability Foundation Series edition on Friday.
As an Electrek article notes, it's unclear whether the clause applies only to the Foundation Series version of the Cybertruck.
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They arent ferrari, what are they thinking?
Supposed to stop scalping
You have to be a colossal idiot to buy this car. You have to be an even bigger idiot to buy it from a scalper
Who is scalping the worst truck ever made? Even the people who put a down payment down don’t want one.
Unfortunately there are enough lunatics who would buy this either as a joke, or because they see Musk as some prophet
I really do not care - Musk and Cybertruck are way overrepresented here
Why do they hate freedom of speech and expression so much?
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