So many haters here. Yes, Elon’s promises sometimes turn out to be unfeasible but Tesla so far has delivered on the things that matter: the cars. Cars which are all top of their game. I’m not a Wall Street banker, I don’t give two shits about their business model. I’m just thankful there’s someone out there bold and…
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The whole hipster “hate everything” ethos in this article (and on this site in general related to Tesla) is getting long in the tooth. Yes, Tesla partially survives on hype.. but they have also done the impossible in this industry. Its been a DECADE and we are finally seeing a real competitor (Taycan) and even that is…
Tesla releases a new product and all of a sudden every new article is a circlejerk over “TESLA BAD TESLA BAD TESLA BAD”. Did Elon bully someone on the Jalopnik staff in high school? That’s what it’s starting to sound like. Nissan isn’t even getting this same treatment. Beyond the ridiculous level of Tesla content…
You’ve constructed quite the elaborate straw man there. They sell a couple million trucks a year. I’m going to go out on a limb and say all kinds of people buy them.
Even if I thought it ugly, it’s at least interesting and I’d much rather have an occasional weirdo like this to break up the sea of bland eunuch mobiles that clog the roads than yet another me-too that might as well just be built by one company and badge-engineered for the entire industry. To a lesser extent, I felt…
I feel like if this was the concept car and then they released some watered-down, softened design that looked more traditional, everyone here would be calling bullshit and complaining that if Tesla actually had the balls to release the concept, they would have bought it.
Your opinion is stupid and so are you. Stop writing and embrace your destiny as a barista, you hack.
The more I look at it, the less ugly it gets.
It’s not hideous to everyone who sees it. Some people like it, others undecided, some hate it. Far from unanimous. The author should look at the comments here and around the internet than makes sweeping declarations that are not true. By that declaration the Delorian is ugly, which this vehicle channels. It’s not the…
So... We (“the carguys”) keep on asking for different things from cars... hell I even thing this same week there was an article in this same site asking for electric cars to be different in a way that because they dont have an internal motor they should be less “car like”... then comes this cyber punk truck and nobody…
Im pretty excited for long range electric pick ups to haul motorcycles and snow gear. Im pretty excited for the Rivian and Bollinger but the prices are way up there for me to justify.
I like how you point out the over promises(legit complaint) but totally ignore the actual delivery. Tesla has accomplished almost everything they have promised. EVERYTHING. Not always exactly in the timeframe promised, sometimes over budget and more expensive than promised but they deliver.
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It’s not ugly, it’s different. Very different.
I’d forget the iM and go with a lightly used Golf.....you can even find some CPO in the $15k range.
Ultimately though, I have to think that if you’re going to drive a 25 year old BMW, having one in the most basic, taxi-grade specification isn’t necessarily a bad thing. There should be less expensive things to break and go wrong, and its still the same chassis and the performance deficit isn’t going to be hugely…
Definitely a better investment than Apple at the moment
I agree with your userame, and your actual point - it is an inherently exploitative situation, unless the LL really desires it to be otherwise.
i wish i could star this more, thank you. The lack of empathy in this country never surprises me but it still shocks me, if that makes sense.
Have you ever rented? I have yet to see a lease that does not have something a reasonable person would expect not to be enforced. In all but one of the leases I’ve signed, there are clauses that blatantly violate my state’s tenant protection laws.