Exactly.  This is just people trying to make news where there is none.  Where would they suggest Tesla find an empty plot of land?  Buy a farm?  Then we’d get stories of how they’ve displaced poor farmers and are part of “big farm” out to kill farm-to-table health food chains and eventually you.

I mean, Musk is right; a monoculture grove of trees planted to be harvested as cardboard stock isn’t the same as bulldozing the Amazon. This isn’t old-growth forest. How many times has Volkswagen cleared trees to build a factory without a peep from anybody?

Wagon good crossover bad we get it.

And then he’d offer the LONG version if needed.

I’ll give you that, sometimes; but I know plenty on the other side too. Also, I know the engine is technically made with a supercharger in mind, but it wasn’t OEM and likely voided warranty if done while still on warranty. You always have to take non-OEM “upgrades” with grain of salt.

While that can seem better on the surface, it also begs the question of how much more did the guy thrash the truck because he also had a supercharger on it?

Havent seen many police using them. But government agencies? Oh yeah.  

Why would I buy a clone of a BMW when I could just buy the BMW? Its not like Cadillac has bad powertrain or chassis design, they’re world class in both.

For sure, that’s a deal but you also have to factor the maintenance cost of these high end sedans if you keep them for a long time. This is the reason why people lease. This is the price of “No Hassle”. Very often, these are company cars or pay buy car allowances.

I held out till about 2016. Then gave up on my daily.

Honestly I’m not sad at all about this.  It’s actually encouraging to me that so many EVs are being sold.

I held out till about 2016. Then gave up on my daily.  My old Jeep is still a stick shift and I love driving it, but sitting in traffic on the daily I’d rather be lazy. 

Very true. But cars like a rav4 hybrid start with 600 miles of range. Lose 25% and you've still got 450 miles and a 80 second refuel. 

The first fully charged pull does not matter that much I agree. The issue is that the 5th pull is over 6 seconds on the Tesla and still under 3 on the Porsche. This means that as you go about your day of driving your ability to merge, overtake and calculate distances is different while still being in the same car. I…

Post Mullaly Ford is a case study in executive incompetence. I’m not sure if its more amazing that he was able to make an impact so fast, or that they squandered it so fast after his retirement. 

That will leave GM as the only major ‘American’ based car manufacturer, which will be the saddest commentary of all on what has happened with manufacturing in America.

Someone tell me why illegal aliens should be issued driver’s licenses?

The window sticker listing FSD and other options the dealer got from Tesla when they bought the car from them is pretty clear evidence that Tesla acknowledges that the car was sold to the dealer with those options.

Not really because Adobe doesn’t make laptops. Tesla made a car and sold it with the feature. It’s more akin to buying a used Surface and having to buy a new version of Microsoft Edge because MS decides that you they only sold the ability to go online to the original laptop user.

This should be a cautionary tale— Tesla is clearly telegraphing intent to “make life miserable” for owners once these cars go off warranty and off support. Parts will get hard and “keeping the functions I paid for” will get even harder.