Now having said all that, I realize not many people show up to a Kia dealer with $45,000 in a briefcase. And you can’t really make payments on a 12 year old car a racecar and a vacation.

I scrolled through this whole list and couldn’t see 45 used Geo Metros as an option.

Kinda funny that Ford is mocking them when they started in a similar way. Constant changes to make cars easier to assemble and a focus on vertical integration.  I don’t get all the negativity on Tesla or why anyone would cheer for the most American car company in existence to fail. They are a very young company that…

I like most of the article except suggesting that someone become an authorized user on a family member’s card. Although this may be done with the best of intentions, it is probable that the person with the bad credit will end up using the card in a bad way if added to the account of the “responsible” family member.

“Dog article= dog pics” = best part of the article.

Poor people aren’t where the money is.

Agreed. Tesla has been taking $2500 deposits at configuration-time since at least 2013. Just another anti-Tesla hit piece like usual

You’re assuming the market for EVs is limited and EV manufacturers will be fighting each other for the scraps. This is simply not true. Number show the EV marketplace as a whole getting even bigger once more manufactures like Porsche and Jaguar enter the marketplace. They will be taking market share primarily from ICE…

It’s not new.  If you bought a Model 3 last year you still have to put $2,500 down to convert the reservation into a hard order.  This isn’t a quarter-end tactic, it’s been around for a year.

Did you not read? It isn’t 2.5k more, that 2.5k is part of the total price. And confirmation of order usually means you get the car within 2 weeks.

Where’s that Tesla fanboi now???

Good luck ordering a custom build from any manufacturer without giving a deposit.

This isn’t new. They’ve always required $2500 to convert your reservation into a configured order.

But, hey, at least we gave more free money to people who didn’t need it and called it energy policy.

Literally the next paragraph says customers who have already placed orders will have the new prices applied retroactively. 

I want SL in Mercedes speak to mean super light again

It’s a bit too much to explain, but most of it has to do with balls.

So your solution is to somehow train the entire world to stop being obsessed with their phone and pay attention? I think this is going to turn out to be very difficult. I do hope you succeed though.

Any half-way alert pedestrian can hear the tyres of the vehicle, even in a parking lot setting. I’ve never been startled by an electric vehicle sneaking up on me because I can not only hear the tyre noise, but I’m also aware of my surroundings when in an area where vehicular traffic is present. The problem is…

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