My dad had a ‘92 Talon. I learned to drive stick on it after it had lost about 100hp, made everything that followed easy.

Yeah, people give Tesla way too much leeway for their production issues. This isn’t like when every other auto company was starting 100 years ago, there are enough companies in the US and around the globe that you can hire an entire manufacturing team from them, and bring in consulting teams that work with everyone…

Walues.

This. I don’t make pancakes because they’re the best thing to eat for breakfast, I make them because they’re cheap and easy. Cheap syrup fits the bill, even if it doesn’t taste as good. Kinda like how I know much better good pasta sauce is, but I eat pasta to balance out the more expensive dinners over the course of…

Are...are we actually getting close to the Washington Redskins being renamed?

Uncle Ben’s is out.

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But I’ve been told that Tesla’s quality is now world class!

Yeah, let’s subvert millennia of imagery!

This is what I’m thinking. Go back to the Explorer Sport badge on a smaller variant, kill off the Edge name, and bank on the Explorer brand. And then with the name change, maybe that gives them an out to pull production out of Oakville.

What don’t you get? He said it wasn’t guaranteed.

Across the board, fines should absolutely not be going back into the coffers, even to the general fund. Give it to charity or something, eliminate the financial incentive to fine people.

if we are genuinely afraid of, say, commuters doing 78 in a 55, it’s important to recognize that cops don’t really prevent those kind of infractions.

Well the original statement he was trying to argue against was that $60K wasn’t unusual - which isn’t even 50%. You need the distribution to know that.

Really, the attention seeking CEO grabs the news? Shocking!

I think the market’s going to puke when they realize Ford/Rivan (maybe)/etc. will be able to do more for $5K less, because they don’t have to move the extra half ton of mass.

Tesla hired someone from Audi.

The COO is the second in command. What that means at any given company is different.

Yeah, he brought in the head of Q5 production as his manufacturing chief, and they still had major, major issues on the 3 (and still don’t know how to ramp, apparently.)

He said it wasn’t unusual, not that it was the average. Wouldn’t be surprising if it was top 20-25%.