It was an example, and the point was Gawker polishing Tesla’s nads at every turn.

You mean like Musk groveled for DoE loans that he used to keep the company from failing when they were bleeding cash and employees were leaving in droves?

Maybe the Tesla event was running late because they had to douse the flaming wreckage of a car that self immolated while plugged in to a supercharger?

Their coverage of Tesla has been hysterically sycophantic, to the point of embarrassment. Do I enjoy pointing out their flagrant biases and hypocrisy? Yes I do. So sue me.

Meanwhile, if this had been Mary Barra, you’d write an article about what a bunch of out of touch shitheads GM are and how stupid they are for alienating potential customers. Then Reddit would make the story go viral, and GM would be inundated with Twitter and email harassment until they kowtowed and gave the guy a…

Slight nitpick:

Agreed, it’s absurd. Right up there with “hacks”, which are normally just advice.

Because I’d hazard a guess that many of the same people who think Lucas is an asshole for making what he wanted to make (not what the fans wanted) think this guy is awesome for getting famous, then deciding he’s more interested in entertaining himself than giving his fans more of what they want.

I see your point, but the flaw in your argument is assuming that Tesla is only making the same markup that OEMs normally make when selling to a dealer. Allow me to present a possible scenario of my own:

And who is to say that Tesla isn’t just cutting out the middleman and charging an even higher profit than you would pay at a dealer?

And what exactly do you think Tesla is doing? If you guessed “Charging tens of thousands of profit because there's no one else offering a lower price”, you’d guess right.

Prices where- at Tesla stores where they’re artificially kept high? Or maybe “By Owner” sales that are based on what the Tesla stores are charging?

Dealers don’t set MSRP, the factory does. The factory sells it to the dealer and tells the dealer how much markup the factory thinks they deserve by putting a sticker on it. Then it’s up to the dealer’s discretion based on supply and demand to discount it or not.

I understand just fine, but you keep wanting to argue a strawman instead of my point.

I’d like to see a Venn Diagram of

That’s a straw man argument. Everyone knows dealers still make a little money at invoice price. The discussion is about how with Tesla you’re forced to pay MSRP because there is no competition between dealerships to win a customer through lower prices or better service.

I think you’d be hard pressed to find many people who paid factory MSRP or above for a car (barring super rarities like Hellcats or Shelbys). Most well to do people would laugh in the face of a dealer who asked MSRP for an Aston or Escalade or Range Rover, yet happily line up like lemmings to pay MSRP and order a…

The number one benefit the Dealership model brings to consumers is price competition. Tesla sells their cars at absurd profit markups, which wouldn’t happen with a Dealership model.

99% chance that the owner slapped those badges on there himself, and made up the “Dealer told me so” thing because you busted him on it.

Be careful. My wife uses that exact same app, and she ended up in the doctor’s office with lethargy, tingling extremities and spasms. Turns out she was drinking so much water that she flushed all her electrolytes and potassium out to dangerously low levels. I'm not blaming this specific app, but rather the last decade…