It’s oddly aggressive. The sort of change engineers would usually make after they’ve worked out most of the known failure modes.

“Musk has a poor track record when it comes to going head-to-head with other big companies.”

Luxury cars often use higher-quality interior materials and have features that aren’t available on lower-priced models — engines, transmissions, sound systems, telematics, safety features — and are packed with more amenities. They also may have more sound insulation, high-quality body parts and aluminum or carbon…

“ ... it has been years and from what I’ve heard and seen...the problem isn’t solved.”

The guy is building car factories and rocket factories, not cars and rockets.

ok boomer

A process where everyone can say no results in a General Motors style least risky design possible. If you want to move fast and break things, you have to break some things and then fix them in the next design iteration. Your first product won’t be perfect but it will be on the market which allows you to learn,…

As I understand, Elon doesn’t have a degree in CEOing either so that’s a double boo boo. Better stick to labels based on degrees earned over 20 years ago.

This is the Elon I like to see. Less drama, more science, and ....humble?

Uh oh, you wrote an article that did not make Elon out to be the Antichrist.

This Elon is good Elon.

The zealous haters came before, mainly for financial reasons.

When this blew up, I was reminded of what happened a couple of years ago with WSJ’s auto writer Dan Neil after his positive impression of the Model 3

A massive majority of people that buy Teslas don’t care about, or even see, things like panel gap. If it results in water leaking into the vehicle or wind noise, that might change. But the average Tesla buyer wants a connected device that they can drive. As long as the infotainment is on point, they’ll be happy…

Found Ed Neidermeier’s Jalopnik account.

Yeah, but a TTAC blowhard is also barely a journalist.

Munro has been praising Tesla lately, I think was his main point.

If Sandy was really trying to pump up the stock, wouldn’t he have given it a more positive review than “Tesla is doing the bare minimum to improve their quality?”

Don’t care too much about the Tesla, but great job on the journalistic side and following up with both parties. When put on the spot about the comments it was interesting to see Niedermeyer clarify his position.

Am I reading this right? Niedermeyer has issues with Munro being critical of Tesla but also owning Tesla stock? How was he ‘pumping their stock’ by saying “The new Tesla is less shit than the old Tesla”?