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I mean, it’s definitely turning off a significant portion of the potential client base, but it’s not hurting them in the short term because they still are selling every car they can build. It remains to be seen if it’ll hurt them in the long term. 

Not very manly.  Do they have them in skulls or barbed wire for my angry faced Wrangler?

Disclosure is important when you’re acting as a good faith reviewer or non-biased expert in a field. Just as you guys let us know when an auto company puts you up in a hotel and fills your gullets with food and drink when they present you their brand new whirly-gig to bounce around in, knowing that Sandy has bought…

You can absolutely divulge that Munro had purchased and sold Tesla stock this year without giving a jackass like Niedermayer any credence.

It seems like he provided comprehensive visible support of his claims. Instead of attacking his motives, perhaps consider rebuking the findings or offering to challenge the evidence of the same Model Y sample.

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?”

“Man who wrote book about topic starts internet drama over someone else’s conflict of interest, fails to see how doing so exacerbates his own conflict of interest. News at 11.”

FWIW: Let’s also not forget that Niedermeyer was part of the anti-American empire under the right-wing, gun-nut who started The Truth About Cars.

I really appreciate your writing, but giving a crackpot former blogger from TTAC (of all places) the title of “Automotive Journalist” is a little much.

Tesla stans behaviour notwithstanding, Niedermeyer’s a joke and has had a beef with Tesla ever since they started. From Keef Wivaneff “wompy wheels” fraud conspiracy (he’s the one who filed most of the NHTSA claims), to Tesla’s deathwatch, to autopilot, and now to Sandy Munro. Niedermeyer’s shown himself to be nothing…

Crossover/midsize SUV gas mileage have improved somewhat, but there is still a considerable delta between SUVs and sedans, unless you’re in something like a RAV-4 hybrid. I got 39mpg on the highway in my dad’s Accord a few weeks back. My partner’s Q5 is lucky to crack 27 MPG on a good day. 

Whoo, I have thoughts. I even argued this yesterday with a Ford person, and sorry, I will die on this yellow No. 3 hill. The Mach-E ain’t a Mustang, and a “Corvette-inspired” crossover will never be a Corvette.

To be clear, I’m not talking about you.

Shit happens - BMW put the “i” in the 328i badge on my wagon on upside-down. I have a 328!.

Yea, I think that if the interior color was matched with an exterior color that usually isn’t allowed, that could be cool. Or something like GTI seats in a standard Golf.  

The OP doesn’t come off as altogether Tesla friendly or not. The way Jalopnik talks about the market is just flawed.

Funny thing, in 2019, I bought a new Tesla Model 3 and 100 shares of Tesla stock at the same time. Yesterday, I sold 70 shares of that stock :) Gotta love the short sellers. I wouldn’t have bought it if it weren’t for them.

So you will buy the stock if it drops 80% while still being this profitable.... so would everyone that still had money.

“At Tesla’s current price-to-earnings ratio, it would take the company almost 1,600 years to make what the stock market says it’s worth.”