The man’s just done a Nazi salute. Even if you can’t afford to go through the new car process, can you afford not to?
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Who is going to buy them? Hope they plan on taking quite the loss
This might require an update
lol why is it only 3? Are the rest Nazis?
At least some of them probably can't afford to replace it if they sell it.
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buying a tesla in the last couple years is like automotive market darwinism
Bought mine in 2021. I knew the man was an idiot then, wasn't really expecting the whole fascist playbook at the time. Anyway, want a Tesla?
For free? No thanks.
Gotta start selling "Bought this before it was fascism"-stickers.
I would sell my car the moment I get a proper offer. But no one wants to buy a Tesla here anymore.
So, keep driving the Model Y. But there is zero chance that we will ever buy a Tesla again. At least as long as Musk is able to profit from it.
Yep, this is the reason.
My wife and I were planning on buying a Tesla some day. She has wanted one since before we knew the name musk. But when we had to replace her Toyota Highlander after someone hit our daughter in it, we passed over all of the teslas and went with another Highlander.
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The enlightened never bought one after test driving and hearing rattles in a car with 20 miles.
The build quality is absolute dogshit.
Yup. I wish I could overlook it like most people, but when a car makes noise fresh off the line then it really pisses me off.
Some of us were smart enough to not be making enough to make such a stupid decision.
The proper way to live when it comes to cars
Assuming that they can sell their cars, doesn't that mean that there is an equal amount of buyers considering buying a Tesla?
I, personally, will never buy a Tesla. I would consider buying an EV, but never a Tesla.
I promise to never fly spacex.
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I've been perfectly happy with my Tesla, if you just look at the car. When i first got it for years ago, it was a real source of joy to me. Now all the joy has been sucked out of it by Musk's assholery. I want to get rid of it sooner rather than later. Right now there isn't really anything in the market that could replace it, but as soon as there is, I'll jump.
Exactly this. I'm not going to sell my model 3 - I already paid for it, and I do like it - but I'll certainly be looking elsewhere when I need to replace it if Musk is still associated with Tesla.
With other manufacturers adopting NACS, the biggest advantage of owning a Tesla has vanished.
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Sounds like an influx of cheap second hand BEVs.
At the end of the day, they are terrible cars. Teslas have the highest rate of of malfunction and low mileage service of any manufacturer in the US by far.
They are beating Ford at their own game!
Honestly, they're pretty good cars at least in my experience. Reviewers seem to agree with that.
I used to work on them (along with other cars) professionally.
Saw half a dozen Teslas get stuck in the parking lot during my two years there, usually picking someone up. The cars would just shut down and refuse to move. Sometimes they had to be towed.
The plastic trim and underbody panels are poorly made and poorly fitted. You will often notice edges cut off of them so they almost fit in place, but often the one on the underside of the back trunk will have a ripple to it.
The metal body panels are also bad. Uneven spacing between panels is common. Often a quarter panel will have a small gap (as it should) on one side of the car, but on the other side the panels are actually touching. Other times the gap will be uneven along a single seam.
Nearly everything on the car is held together by single-use plastic push-pins, or metal self-tapping screws into plastic and metal panels. If you are really lucky you will get a metal screw into a nylon backing. Where Toyota or Subaru would use a reusable screw or fastener, Tesla alway uses something cheaper and disposable.
We also commonly came across loose fittings on connectors on various wiring harnesses, which we could sometimes fix by just jamming the wire into the hole. Not really something we ever saw on other manufacturers.
I lived in Fremont for a few years, the site of one of their factories. My friends who worked there had so many stories of problems being noticed on the line, and being told to just move it along.
Maybe they do unusually bad work in Fremont, and the Teslas made elsewhere are better. I've mainly seen these issues on Models S, X, and 3, i left that job before the Cybertruck was available
Separate from all that, i personally think the touchpad display seems unsafe. All functions of the car to be performed or modified by the driver should be possible without looking. A touchpad requires you to look at it, whereas physical buttons can be felt before being pressed.
Consumer Reports gave the X and S 30/100 in reliability, among the lowest scores they gave in that category.
Consumer Reports gave the X and S 30/100 in reliability, among the lowest scores they gave in that category.
Well, good thing I have the Y, which apparently was "Best Electric Car of Year 2024" by Consumer Reports.
https://insideevs.com/news/710663/tesla-model-y-best-electric-car-consumer-reports/
TBF i never worked on a Y
On every 5th drive it randomly makes a hell of a rattle though at low speeds... sounds like something like gravel gets between the front tires or something. Also the boot hinges are somehow busted (requires manual closing to properly close), which the Mobile Service Tech is unable to fix.
So I can vouch for that lack of build quality for sure.
Yup. I never really understood why to buy such an expensive shitty car to begin with.
And then additionally Musk, of course. He didn't change, this was always him. Buying business building up power recklessly.
I liked the way they looked when they first came out, but now the other manufacturers have copied many of the same ideas while Telsa's own styling has sort of stagnated.
What I see is that Tesla was early with electric cars and gave the market a push. Possibly due to elons fame too.
But not more than that 😁
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