Didn’t get the memo? You guys are no longer allowed to use “The T Word” after that unhinged stunt he pulled with the UK-Thai Cave-Guy.

Oh, these are clearly pre-delivery. But there’s a lot of explanations.

He is a bizarre man from a bizarre family.

Uh, no.

Nice graphic... leaves out the fact that his parents were Uber-Wealthy (Google “Musk and Brothers sell fathers gemstones”).

Lutz likes the car, but hates the company.  I agree with Maximum Bob.

The same UCS that says Seattle (100% hydro) and Wyoming (100% coal) have the same “equivalent” MPGe ratings?

He’d have been the poster child Morgan-Stanley Bond Trader, snorting blow (and Ambien) off hookers’ asses while telling us his ‘life’s philosophy’.

Crony capitalism, baby!

HA!  A star for that analogy!

My point is just that “the first tech bubble” created a lot of wealth for people that aren’t quite as smart as their bank account says. I live in Montecito and am surrounded by that, so it’s not confined to Musk.

Heh, interesting timing. I was just commiserating with my mechanic about my E34's M60 4.0L... which I bought out of Texas with the original block. It has roughly the same blow-by and smoking after 120K miles as my 1977 240D does with 600,000 miles. Which is A LOT.

Interesting thing was, with a few losses on his resume (notably NeXt) and some learning and personal growth— the Steve Jobs that came back in and rescued Apple was a different person.

Still don’t see how you can make this assertion:

I assume you are kidding, right?

hey, I have no idea what the “right” level of inventory is for their model. In theory they were running the “Dell” system where the car’s already paid for, you ship direct-to-consumer and pay your vendors in 120 days, while thanking them for their interest free loan to the company. so, seeing cars stuffed into a lot…

Yeah, that’s more than rumor. I used to work in VC and have a lot of buddies still up on Sand Hill road.

Even the dude’s brother admitted he was “beyond the line of legality” in the stuff he did to stave off Chap 11 10 years ago... AT this point, he’s got billions of dollars of stock pledged for his margin loans to support his “dating Grimes, buy up Bel-Air” lifestyle.

Another funny thing— it’s so hard to do anything in Montecito and Santa Barbara that all the car dealerships ended up in what’s called “Noleta”, which is a sliver of unincorporated land between Santa Barbara and Goleta... and there’s actually car repair, light industrial and auto dealerships in Noleta.

What’s funny.... I contend Jobs was actually MORE on the engineering end of the spectrum. He said “No, it ain’t good enough for years” to prototype iPhones. Really. He had the discipline and vision to say “No, come back when it’s up to our standards.”