I will go so far as to grant that he might need a car. Some jobs / areas really do have that as a necessity. But a $70k Corvette - hell, no. I think I posted elsewhere that if he needs a car, it should be a 10 year old, 10 K used Corolla.  At max.  Just expensive enough and new enough to be reliable enough to meet its…

When people say that they need material things like a car to boost their “image”, what they are really talking about is their own perception of themselves. It’s not really about how other people actually feel about them, it’s about how they think other people feel about them. It’s ultimately about self worth. 

These numbers are mind boggling. He went from making big money, by my standards to not much more than I make now. He bought a billionaire’s car on a thousandaire’s income and now has as much negative equity on his car as I have positive equity in my house.  He makes the TikTok lady look almost sensible.  He doesn't…

I worked in small business banking about 10 years ago and had a client starting a new business, one of his expenses was 6000 a month for a leased Bentley a well used one too, he said he needed it for ‘image’ and that his business would fail without it, turns out it failed before it started as there was no way I could…

Considering that price is more than twice what this family style econobox sold for new...

Putting the Imola in immolation. 

Its an Italy thing.

In 1982, this was the coolest thing little me had ever seen. But oh boy were they terrible from performance to quality, everything:

yep I have an MK7 golf that lost a transmission.
I got another one under warranty but that was crazy.
first and last VW..
At least it is paid off.

Who knows if you sign away your right to sue when you sign all those papers for a test drive though. It’s stupid that’s even a thing but here we are.

Frankly, why a “cab” would look like anything other than a London cab, or one of those NV things is beyond me.  This vehicle should be 100% focused on cabin space, comfort, cargo, etc.  Not vanity.  But Elon doesn’t get that.

What I am saying here is that unlike the other Waymo and the other autonomous companies that are using already established vechiles that aren’t accessible, Musk could have taken this opportunity using a blank slate to make a Cybercab that worked for all riders...instead he chose to make a sports car.

A lot of easy answers.

You picked the Gladiator for legitimate reasons, but I’ll pick ANY Stellantis vehicle. In the last decade, I’ve had four that everyone of their transmission went out in. You’d think at least ONE might break 100K miles without a new trans.

In general I agree - I know the Cayenne is generally regarded as very reliable, but at the end of the day we’re talking about a 12 year old German performance car. The price you pay is the cost of entry, so you need to think total cost of ownership.

I think DavidHH has brain damage. He’s pointed to 1980s Audi/VW as paragons of reliability before.

The cuts could come as skilled jobs in “engine-related” work are lost as gas-powered motors are replaced by electric ones

Of course it’s going to cost jobs. Typewriters being replaced meant there wasn’t a need for people to fix them; Plotting printers meant there was no longer a need for drafters.

Losing jobs due to technical advancements is a story as old as the industrial revolution. Look at this picture compared to the lead one and see how many workers lost their jobs from robots.

This is definitely not a "normal" car.