Only 50%? They still sell NEW cars? Who, except proud Nazis and incredibly ignorant people, would get one?
this post was submitted on 27 Nov 2025
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I'm not convinced that Nazis and dumbfucks aren't half the population, so maybe it just checks out?
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Companies who get good deals on them and only care about the financial aspect.
No surprise, people here looking embarrassed driving a swasticar
Keep falling. Fuck Elon!
I certainly don't. Picked a Volvo over Tesla. Actually the Tesla was far down on my list of brands. I had already heard the manufacturing quality of Teslas was atrocious. The Nazism was just the last straw/beam.
I have a colleague with a Tesla, and his towbar just fell right off when he was trying to tow a trailer. It just came right off. Well within weight limits as well.
Tesla wouldn't touch it. Dealership refers to Tesla upstream. Local mechanics can't do anything.
I said hell naw.
FSD is not legal in the EU. Cars are safety inspected in the EU every year and that would be a bad time for Tesla owners.
In Finland, about 50% of Tesla Model 3s fail their 4-year inspection.
https://yle.fi/a/74-20184982 (the article is in Finnish)
Wow, these are some wild numbers, and very damning for Tesla's "quality" in particular.
Everyone focuses on the battery, but few Teslas make it long without needing a motor change. Cheap main bearing designs. Just get them past the lease.
Same in Denmark.
but in north 'Murica you can drive until the car falls apart and has an "accident".
Rotted frame? Get the spray foam!
Autonomy is coming very soon
They have been saying this for literal years now, but Tesla's insistence on using cameras instead of LIDAR makes FSD impossible. People need to realize this
I will just leave this list of claims here
A lot of red (unfulfilled predictions) in that list. Classic conman sales pitches.
Also them removing radar, which while having its own flaws (as does LIDAR), is a great compliment to cameras and is the industry standard for a reason.
Doesn't matter, Musk is getting his trillion anyway. Because, that makes sense.
Actually, the way I understand it, he won't be getting it if things continue to go south for Tesla.
Goals for Musk over the next decade include the company's delivering 20 million vehicles, having 1 million robotaxis in operation, selling 1 million robots and earning as much as $400 billion in core profit. But in order for him to get paid, Tesla's stock value has to rise in tandem, first to $2 trillion from the current $1.5 trillion, and all the way to $8.5 trillion.
Achieving each step - an operational goal and a valuation milestone - awards Musk 1% of stock. So the plan could still hand Musk tens of billions of dollars even if he falls short of most of its ambitious targets.
If Musk hits all of them, he would be eligible for 12% in stock, or about $1 trillion.
It's not a completely dumb plan by the investors to keep him focused on the company, but certainly is bonkers renumeration and wild direction.
Personally, I think their investments will be safer with him waaay away from Tesla, rather than concocting hail-mary schemes to drive an already severely inflated stock to even more inflated valuations.
But hey, I don't invest in shares, so what do I know, and what do I care about theze bozos.
Imagine throwing your heart out to the world you love, only to be abandoned. /s
Europeans are cruel. No sympathy for a simple man and his botched penis.
He thrown so much heart, no I feel an urge to conquer Poland
Music to my ears!
Forget the varying quality. Maybe even forget the Nazism. But I would not be complicit in Elon being paid $1Trillion. Never will I ever own anything by Tesla for that reason alone. Everyday I am so glad I did not succumb and buy a Tesla 8 years ago when I instead bought my Kia Soul EV.
Waiting for the tesla bubble to pop