Jalopnik: WE WANT A WAGON, NOBODY MAKES WAGONS ANYMORE

Oh for fucks sake.

Why would you go with that artist’s rendition, instead of an actual Fusion (well Mondeo) wagon:

As far as I can tell, there’s four main things going on:

I hate Elon Musk more than I care to admit. He’s cocky, self absorbed, and really doesn’t seem to care much about the people who buys his cars, as long as he has their money. 

I think there are a significant number of people who waited for the AWD, which wasn’t being built until recently. But yeah, definitely a lot of people who will be waiting a while for, or giving up on, a $35k Model 3. 

So they had 450k reservations, and have made roughly 47k cars. That leaves 403k reservations to go. That’s 80 weeks at the current rate.

I don’t see how you can spin this other than the vast majority of remaining reservations aren’t willing to buy the car at the $50k+ prices they’re asking. The reservations list then…

So, basically, is this not admitting that the vast bulk of people who took reservations aren’t willing to actually take delivery of the vehicle at the cost (well over $35k) that Tesla is making possible?  In other words, the reservations are a horrible indicator of Tesla’s backlog (which apparently doesn’t exist), but…

He didn’t try to make someone else’s story of life or death odds and heroic rescue efforts all about himself with an ego-driven PR stunt, so there’s that.

What, specifically, makes any of those NOT a coupe?

Why do chicken coupes only have 2 doors? Because if there were 4, it would be a chicken sedan

And don’t forget the chicken coupe.

Well if you called it egg-shaped-wagony-abomination, soccer moms would not want it.

Well, go ahead then. 

“The fact that this letter is circulating today on social media seems to me like a clumsy attempt to take the attention away from the principal problem that is, Santino’s and his father’s behavior on and outside the track in these last weekend races,” Salvadori said.

A self-serving asshole is a Trump supporter? How surprising!

There is no perspective. I’m not a Tesla fanatic, I think the cars are neat, but are OSHA complaints like this fairly commonplace in the industry, or are they extraordinary? Does Tesla just not have the political scale to bury stories like these?

I won’t ask who hurt you but obviously it was someone named Crystal.

“Here come the Elon Musk superfans to pedantically correct your minor factual errors and attempt to use them to invalidate the entirety of the article.”

In english please ?