Hipsters don’t want to own cars. They walk/bike/uber.
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That, and what dealer network is going to buy into this? (Besides weirdos like your Jalopnik staff if they found a pile of cash buried in a cave or something.) French cars have a horrible track record in the U.S. PSA’s return is a super shaky business proposition. I think they kind of have to go this route to prove to…
this is why I would never go to one of these things. Too many idiots with cars they can’t responsibly handle, and a bunch of assholes with their phones recording everyone leaving and encouraging them to show off. It’s difficult being a car enthusiast when I can’t stand most other car people.
Henry Ford built capacity a lot sooner than “generations”!
4 years at the outside. Everyone, EVERYONE already knew it would take at least 2 years when they gave their deposit.
Better late then never. Worst case with the model 3 is they lose $1000
This. They haven’t sold any Model 3s. All these orders are refundable deposits for a slot in line sold so that they can book some cash (non GAAP of course because under GAAP Tesla would be unviable as a going concern) and generate hype for their overexposed celebrity CEO. They did exactly the same thing with the X -…
Because many Tesla fans are just like Apple fans. They line up before seeing the product or using the product. Meaning they really don’t care how the car drives, they just want it for different reasons. This is how Tesla and Apple are similar, but Apple has shitload of cash though.
Either way buying a car you’ve neither driven nor seen is a dumb move. There’s just no arguing that. People gave Musk a thousand dollars interest free for probably two years. Bad financial choice.
This is a last ditch effort to generate more cash to spend before they go belly up. Their burn rate is far too fast.
As cool as this thing is, it just doesn’t fit into the American Buick line-up. If they sold it as a Chevy that could work. But what Buick buyer is going to buy a minicar?
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It’s not often that I get out of my Aston Martin, I get into another car, and I want that other car more than I want…
Doesn’t Tesla already have a reservation system so this kind of silliness doesn’t need to happen?
25 hours isn’t that bad.
I mean, I’d be weirded out if some guy was like “DO YOU WANT THIS TAMPON?!?!?” without any kind of lead up/reason. But it would be cool to be able to be like “Oh no! Emergency - anyone got a pad/tampon?” and have a guy OR girl friend hand me one....
I disagree. By the time they ship it, it might well be dated though.
Anything Foxtrot Alpha writes where Russia is involved. It gets out of hand fast with the Putin Trolls.
They can claim that the X7 will be more than a long X5 till they’re blue in the face, but history gives me a reason to be skeptical.
I’ve been saying this for a long time, but always get called a pessimist. People just don’t realise how complicated driving is. Even simple aspects of it require a tremendous amount of sensor readings and calculations and decision-making. The human brain makes it seem simple, but it’s an immensely complicated and…