How do I know summer is here? Because every asshole with a Harley has to unleash an aural assault whenever a stop light turns green.

Yeah, you’ve really got to build yourself a cult like base of followers, and have inherited a slave run emerald mine to make it work.

Gee, maybe when your CEO isn’t a giant public asshat, it makes a difference in sales. Alienating your own customer base is basic business smarts, bun not for Genius Boy Musk.

You can always tell a Milford man.

My best memory about Saturn was their no hassle sales tactics at the dealership. “If you want to talk someone, come inside. Otherwise, we’ll leave you alone to walk around the lot.”

Agreed. Saturn was also selling to something like 85% conquest customers for GM... in other words, they weren’t even considering other GM products and were mostly import buyers. I believe this was true up until 1999-2000 or so when they started selling poorly rebadged Opels (the L-series wasn’t horrible but it was…

I think if they kept Saturn around it really could have been a good hybrid/EV division.

Saturn lost its charm when it became rebadged Opel/Vauxhall models.  When Saturn came out it was a legitimate competitor to the Japanese imports in terms of reliability, quality, and content.  Once they stopped producing stand-alone models that differentiated themselves from the rest of GM’s product lines they lost…

The original Mini Cooper pioneered the space-conscious transverse FWD layout that would become ubiquitous on passenger cars in the following decades.

Not especially true.

It’s the socially acceptable word for everyone who wants to rant about minorities, women, and/or LGBTQ groups, but fear they’ll get fired for using the known slurs.

No, it’s actually an okay investment tactic when a major corporation has a big go woke, go broke culture pop. There is usually an initial stock slide, which is a good time to buy, because then it generally rebounds once everyone stops caring again.

Funny how people on the right rage against “cancel culture” while embracing it just as much as anyone else.

I don’t even know how the word “woke” means anything to anyone anymore.  It’s just become a political catch all for a belief that a person or group of people have that another person doesn’t like.

100% agreed. I am a political lefty actively pursuing adding an EV to the garage, and will not buy or lease a tesla. Although they are the most price competitive, the biggest reason we won’t get one is Elon’s downfall into being a rightwing edgelord chad.

Yeah, if it didn’t have such a profound effect on US society (AKA I was not living in the US), it would be fascinating to see where it will go.

Part of why someone buys an EV is to project a certain set of values. Having a CEO that runs counter to that isn't helpful.

And since democrats occupy the majority by numbers, you just alienated a rather large consumer base.  Bad move.

Ron DeSantis ate this exact same shit-sandwich during his primary campaign for president. Eventually these freaks are going to figure out normal people are more off-put by anti-woke culture than they were by woke culture in the first place, Gonna be weird to see where that whole culture goes from there.

I really wish he just stepped down after the model Y was done. He’s just using the company as his own personal vanity project now. Anything useful he could have provided to the advancement of EVs, he did years ago; now he’s running the company into the ground.