For the poor and middle class people who are financially literate and have a modicum of self control, easy credit is great. Those are the people I care about. Stupid is as stupid does. Being dumb has always had a high long term cost. 

Snarkiness is fundamental to millennial communication, they can’t help it. Smug self superiority is their substitute for being interesting.

Blackberry was first to the smartphone market, and Steve Jobs came along and “Porsched” up the design. Faster, sleeker, better made. First to market is a very temporary advantage. Generally second and third to market take the lead, then pretend they’re first to market.

I think the problem is a lack of personal responsiblity in our culture. These people know they’re making bad long term decisions, and don’t care. They want it now. They blame the schools for not teaching them, the dealer for taking advantage of them, when they knew the whole time that they were making a poor decision. 

Have the government make their car? Why do you hate poor people so much?

Let’s force poor people to walk to work, and then pat ourselves on the back. I can still afford it. Yeah America! Problem solved

Slightly more than 209 people, which is enough for a complete sell out. Try to call up a Subaru dealer and buy one. You’re already too late

These cars have almost all already been sold, months before release. They’re cross shopping a fantasy, you can’t get one anymore

Why? It's clearly a wagon

Also, Elon never makes his originally stated timelines

I think it’s a valueable comparison to see how they stack up in the real world. Elon is known to exagerate, while Porsche has a history of understating the numbers. This comparison seems to bear that out.

A faulty storage device contained in every vehicle, which based on the description of the problem, will have a 100% failure rate over time, and makes the vehicle completely innoperable. Sounds pretty bad to me. 

People don't cheat on their taxes. Must have been one of those car salesman trixsters at the bottom of this. 

He took your personal check and never asked for an ID? Good thing someone else didn’t show up there with your checkbook. 

It’s great if the car you buy has high resale value, but people who make their purchase decision based on resale value are the saddest people of all. Instead of putting their own wants first, they prioritize the average want of unknown strangers, at a future date to be determined. How sad. 

Have you driven a new RAV4? It’s a terrible herky jerky machine The Subaru CVT is much better. Maybe Toyota could help them somewhere else.

They’ll get different jobs. Before GM built their factories and started pumping out cars, tens of thousands of people made a living shoveling horse shit. Horse drawn carriages went away, and so did their jobs shoveling shit. I’m sure it sucked for them at the time, but I don’t see anybody nowadays lamenting the loss…

Considering Tesla has made roughly -$9,000,000,000 in profit over the course of their history, I don’t think you’re being naive at all.

Crumple zones for safety, that would be my guess

If Tesla is the benchmark, how much profit do they need? Those guys lose several hundred million dollars every quarter.