Don’t know if you follow Rich’s video series, but his episodes about “buying a CPO Mod X from Tesla” are pretty instructive. Tesla is SO amateurish in customer relations— this is the “service”equivalent of having panel gaps big enough to put your thumbs into.
Tesla would get a huge ROI if they spend $65K a year on a manager who’s sole job was to follow Elon everywhere with a spraybottle of icewater and blast him in the face every time he is about to say date of any sort.
It’s funny how just a trial order by some major trucking companies was already seen as a big win.
“Pre Orders”
Oh, man, those videos of “the big reveal” with the software-bro-VCs on camera claiming they were going to run over and “make a deposit” on a Founders Series Semi... What utter horse excrement. That’s a business that runs 100% on the numbers, on cost efficiencies, on hitting your weight and time targets.
That it was ever valued above GM is nuts.
Uh, remind me again... why bother with low-volume “vanity” projects like Roadster-II? They did that with the first roadster, accomplished objective. Done.
As always with Musk, I’ll believe it when I see it.
The SALT cap should point out how much your state squanders when it comes to how much they tax you.
Sorry friend. If you want to get to the good stuff, you have to read to the end like everybody else. But, by all means, you’re more than welcome not to. I encourage it, even. I’m quite happy to continue on not having to deal with whatever inane chatter you think is worth replying to me about.
I don’t need a spare tire, either. But I have one for the same reason I have a handgun: Precaution.
Different take:
Beauty or good looks is an opinion and IMHO, the truck would have looked better and probably more functional “non-stanced”.
Pulling a gun on someone you witnessed committing whats called a “forcible felony” until the police arrive is perfectly legal and in fact, a major reason we have civilian handgun carrying in this country. No need to go all “So-called good Samaritan” on him.
I never had an alignment on my Mustang and sold it at 12 years old just as the front control arm bushing were about to die. I payed for an alignment on my Subaru last year and they told me “there’s a little bit of a camber but we can’t do anything about it, it’s not cambered enough” but I still got charged $75 for the…
No- you are wasting money. Once a year even seems crazy to me.
Yeah, two alignments a year seem nuts. Obviously if parts of the suspension are changed, you’ll want an alignment, or if you notice the car pulling or having uneven tire wear, but there’s no reason to do it just because. Hitting a pothole generally shouldn’t change your alignment unless it damages something. Changing…
People in Puerto Rico and Cuba have some great cars with stories like this, I was told that unless you know someone who will carry parts in for you, like in luggage no smuggling anything here people, it is nearly impossible to get parts. So they make do and come up with some amazing solutions.
Margin is the only thing that matters. Margin tells you that you could have a company half the size of Ford and still make 7 billion. It’s a measure of efficiency, and inefficient companies die.
Jim Hackett’s total compensation package is $13.4 Million. That’s one tenth of one percent of the total profit made by the company. Reinvesting the entirety of that “talking head’s” salary into employees would net each of the 100,000 North American employees $134 or about $8.93 per month after tax. Do you really think…
